Mick Hartley

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  • Compelled Conformity

    le=”padding-left: 40px”>It’s clear the consequences of disagreement are frightening.

    “I am expected to accept the male lesbian to keep my job, It makes me very unwell…”

    Key findings:

    • 91% feel uncomfortable being grouped under the broader LGBTQ+ umbrella commonly used in workplace EDI policy and initiatives
    • Over a third (36%) have been advised by HR to stay silent about views that conflict with staff LGBTQ+ groups and DEI initiatives — while 86% avoid expressing their views altogether, fearing consequences such as job loss or disciplinary action
    • 79% of LGB employees say workplace “LGBT” training does not address LGB-specific issues.

    Report here.

  • The Workers Party of Britain

    “font-size: 11pt”>Other speakers at the march included former British MP George Galloway, musician Lowkey, and sociologist David Miller.

    He certainly knows which buttons to push before he sets off on his jihad rant: the “banker state” of Israel….“they control your capital, they control your finance".

    Did none of the young Workers Party members wonder, just for a moment, what they were doing cheering on this relentless antisemitic bile, coming from such a reactionary, misogynist, would-be theocrat? Well no – that's what they were there for. George Galloway, Lowkey, David Miller.

    The absolute state of the British left…

  • Our cissexist society

    A conversation stopper.

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    I hope someone's collecting these fabulous gender pronouncements for a future anthology…

  • When the so-called experts are ideologues

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  • Targeted with deception

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  • Cousin marriages

    ith its second reading due this week. Conservative MP Richard Holden introduced the bill in December, arguing that cousin marriage poses “risks to health, freedom [and] the cohesion of our society”. In February this year, the BBC reported on new data from Born in Bradford showing that children of first cousins were more likely to have speech and language difficulties, more likely to need more hospital appointments, and less likely to “reach a good stage of development”. A 2011 study showed that the likelihood of infant mortality increases substantially if the parents are first or second cousins.

    Back to Matthew Syed:

    The good news is that Kemi Badenoch has adopted this as Tory policy after campaigning by her colleague Richard Holden, and a poll for YouGov last month showed that 77 per cent of the British people are in favour of a ban (only 9 per cent oppose it). But here’s what astounds me: Labour remains against prohibition, despite (I am told) having read the evidence. Why? How? Permit me to suggest that I glimpse through the façade of prevarication a party still terrified of criticising any cultural practice out of fear of appearing racist. Isn’t that why it was mute for so long on female genital mutilation and honour beatings and still can’t bring itself to describe the burqa as a pernicious symbol of institutional misogyny?

    And is busy preparing for a new definition of "Islamophobia" to be introduced.

  • Judiciary putting the interests of self-centred men over the rights of women

    he country’s highest court. It also extends the definition of what is medically necessary, raising questions about other elective procedures. Should an ex-husband have to pay towards his wife’s breast enhancement, on the grounds that she’s depressed by their divorce and it will help her find a new partner?

    Wives whose husbands claim to be transgender have not received sufficient sympathy or attention, even though they — and their children — are a living rebuttal of the “what harm does it do?” argument made by trans activists. The ruling raises new questions about impartiality, suggesting that the judiciary is still too inclined to accept the tenets of an ideology which promotes the interests of self-centred men over the rights of women.

    No doubt because the judge in this case was a man.

  • Reporting Gaza

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  • At the Hampstead Ladies Pond

    an style=”font-size: 11pt”>But this is Hampstead, fabled home of the literary progressive. So if not actually authoring, then, very likely, with a job in publishing or the BBC….

    After the Supreme Court ruling, the Kenwood Ladies’ Pond Association (KLPA), a volunteer-led group representing people who use the pond, said: “The Ladies’ Pond is open to all women and girls over the age of eight and, according to the lifeguards, trans women have been swimming there for many years without incident.

    “The Ladies’ Pond is well staffed by lifeguards and stewards who are there to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all users.”

    Last year, in a meeting of the KLPA, members voted to reject a motion that “only those born female in sex can use the pond”. The motion, which would have excluded transgender women, was “resoundingly defeated”.

    If the lifeguards and stewards are so wonderful, why not just drop the whole "women only" charade and make it mixed? No assaults or rapes then, and women feeling uncomfortable is not really a matter of any concern when compared with the validation of men's new gender identities, and the kick they get from violating women-only spaces. So there'll be one men only and two mixed bathing ponds. Women clearly don't deserve one for themselves.

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  • The class aspect of the gender debate

    More on the NHS Fife case…

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    From McColm's Scotsman article:

    The political division over gender ideology has been clear for a long time. The case of Sandie Peggie brings into focus another societal split on the issue.

    The trans-rights movement is the first “equality” crusade to filter from the top down. The luxury belief that an individual can magically change sex has been pushed not by grassroots activists but by well-funded organisations and political parties captured by activists.

    Peggie is a working class woman while Upton – in common with so many gender activists – was raised in middle class privilege. The difference in power, in agency, is clear.

    During February’s evidence sessions, Upton claimed to be a “biological female”. It says something about the doctor’s sense of entitlement that Sandie Peggie and the rest of us are expected to accept this. Until recently, a male entering a female-only changing room at work would have faced the strongest possible disciplinary action. The fact that Upton was ever permitted to use the women’s facilities at work is a scandal.

    But, among the chattering political and middle classes, the idea that one should be cheered for living “authentically” rules, even when that authenticity means expecting others to share and indulge someone’s delusion, no matter how uncomfortable that may make them.

    To Nicola Sturgeon and her fellow gender militants, the consequences of their actions mean nothing. If a vulnerable woman has to share a confined changing room with a man, then she should not complain but educate herself. And then see that man as the brave woman she is.

    The class aspect of this whole mess is the reason it will take so long to complete the necessary process of removing the influence of gender ideologues from public bodies.

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