The Wrong Side Of Sanity
The phrase “the wrong side of history” alludes to people who are said to be out of touch, who have not moved with the times. This is something that can be valid. Slavery is now prohibited everywhere, and the suggestion that anyone should be held as a slave is one that should rightly be held in contempt. Many other examples could be given, and not all are as clear cut, but even people who are on the wrong side of history are seldom on the wrong side of sanity. An exception is the so-called trans movement.
Leaving aside the biological anomalies discussed in this video, sex is binary. Men cannot become women and women cannot become men, however much surgical mutilation or chemical treatment they subject themselves to. Sadly, after the UK Supreme Court made this startlingly obvious observation today, albeit in different words, the comrades of the Socialist Workers Party published an hysterical article which proves they are indeed on the wrong side of sanity.
Perhaps we shouldn’t be too surprised, because these people have been telling us for decades that race doesn’t really exist, that it is a social construct rather than a biological reality. If race doesn’t exist, why can sex be a social construct as well?
In this article, SWP members are urged to “resist the Supreme Court ruling”, by doing what, exactly? Encouraging dudes to enter women’s toilets?
The article quotes the distinguished scientist Robert Winston thus: “I will say this categorically—that you cannot change your sex,” adding “Your sex is there in every single cell in the body. You have chromosomal sex. You have genetic sex. You have hormonal sex.”
The uncredited author of this article comments “This sort of view assumes that biological differences determine what it means to be a man or a woman.”
Er, yes.
“But some of those statements simply aren’t true and show that people use sex to refer to a broad range of things. It’s true that we can’t change our chromosomal sex, but people can—and do—change their hormonal balance.”
These are semantic tricks that are so typical of the extreme left: words mean whatever they want them to mean. A transwoman - a man calling himself a woman - is no more a woman than a greengrocer telling you so makes an orange a trans-apple.
The claim that there is an “avalanche of transphobia” in Britain is simply not true. The simple fact is that when people go where they are not wanted, they cause resentment, and when they insist on going where they have no right to go, there can be serious repercussions, even violence.
If some women appear to hate trans people, it could be because of the way these people behave rather than the way they look.
If today’s Supreme Court judgment is to be welcomed, so is something that happened on the other side of the Atlantic. The Attorney General of the United States announced that she would be taking action against the demented female Governor of the State of Maine. Former champion swimmer Riley Gaines shared the podium with Pam Bondi.
This action is a civil suit to end the ludicrous practice of self-styled transgirls and transwomen from competing in female sports with the full approval of the leaders of Democrat-run states. Thirty years ago or even ten years ago, the very idea would have sounded preposterous. Hopefully, ten years from now, it will again.