From: julianlzb87@gmail.com   
      
   Tug gently on a thread of the ideology and it comes apart like a jumper   
   knitted by an imbecile   
      
      
   At the height of the madness, from which I think we are now in merciful   
   and terminal retreat, a Scottish schoolboy announced that he identified   
   as a wolf and was apparently indulged in this fantasy by his teachers.   
   There was a confusion here — a kind of ideology-versus-reality   
   disconnect, as so often happens with lifestyle-left intersectional idiocies.   
      
   If the teachers had truly believed the child was a wolf he would have   
   been separated from the rest of the pupils by extremely robust metal   
   fencing and thrown chunks of raw bison every few hours. Of course the   
   school did not do that, meaning that in truth, and contrary to the   
   approved narrative, it did not really think he was a wolf.   
      
   At the same time reports surfaced of other British schools where kids   
   were identifying as a multitude of creatures, real and imagined, such as   
   cats, horses, dinosaurs and dragons. One assumes that in each case the   
   schools responded similarly, by pretending to respect these expressions   
   of the fictional condition “species dysphoria” but in reality not   
   believing it for a minute.   
      
   If only, one wished, they had taken the same approach to the suddenly   
   booming popularity of teenage children telling everybody that they had   
   been born into the wrong body — an impossibility — and identified as a   
   different gender from the one they had been “assigned” at birth. Instead   
   the schools indulged these dangerous fantasies, regardless of whether   
   the parents approved.   
      
   Fast-forward to last week and the education secretary, Bridget   
   Phillipson, issued guidance to schools upon how to treat supposed   
   outbreaks of gender dysphoria among their charges. This followed the   
   Supreme Court ruling in April that under the law the terms “sex” and   
   “man” and “woman” referred to biological sex — as we had understood   
   for   
   the previous 20,000 years — and not to the fantasies of a deluded mind.   
   Phillipson, unforgivably, had delayed issuing guidance for almost a   
   year, then — to the fury of the Equality and Human Rights Commission —   
   to avoid enraging the Stalinist wokies who preside over the country’s   
   institutions and were busy allowing trans women into women’s wards in   
   hospitals and women’s prisons. And to avoid annoying the teachers, too,   
   a significant proportion of whom signed up to a counter-rational   
   narrative that you can be whatever you want to be.   
      
   And so in schools, at least, we are 90 per cent back to sanity. Single   
   sex sports, single sex washrooms, and teachers should not initiate   
   discussions or introduce concepts of gender identity to children.   
   Parents are to be involved in almost all cases — but, oddly, teachers   
   can respect a pupil’s pronouns if they want and, worryingly, can set   
   kids as young as four on the path to “social transitioning” in “extreme   
   cases”.   
      
   This leaves far too much leeway with the teachers, whose unions   
   clamoured for full transgender recognition and who have always been a   
   deeply gullible lot untroubled by the concept of common sense. But we   
   should be at least a little relieved. Now, Phillipson, roll out the same   
   advice to the NHS and redress the years of misery endured, primarily, by   
   female nurses. You know, proper female nurses — the ones with a cervix.   
      
   How has the counter-revolution been achieved? The easy answer is that   
   Supreme Court case of last year, but I would beg to differ. If that case   
   had been heard in, say, 2022, I suspect the judgment would have been   
   very different: no matter how often it tells us it is, our judiciary is   
   no more above the political fray and the sway of fashionable ideologies   
   than are you and I. More important were the battles of the Darlington   
   nurses, for example, and the bravery shown by individuals who have been   
   subjected to the most appalling abuse by the screaming mimis of the   
   trans lobby and the blank-faced progressive commissars — pre-eminently   
   JK Rowling, but also Graham Linehan, the brilliant Kathleen Stock, Maya   
   Forstater, Sharron Davies and many, many more castigated as Terfs or   
   fascists. They played an invaluable part.   
      
   But so did one other ugly, reactionary interloper — reality. As soon as   
   sporting bodies began to ban trans women from female disciplines because   
   they feared a rapid extinction of women’s sports, you could see the   
   entire stupid edifice start to crack under the weight of its own   
   manifest contradictions. As ever with intersectional delusions, you tug   
   gently on a thread of the ideology and the whole thing comes apart, like   
   a pink mohair jumper knitted by an imbecile.   
      
   In the field of trans, that has thankfully occurred, and if the figures   
   from the US are to be believed, the number of students identifying as   
   trans has reduced by half in the space of two years. Excellent. Now   
   let’s tug gently on the threads of similarly counter-rational and   
   corrosive, divisive intersectional guff, such as critical race theory   
   and decolonisation, and watch those come apart, too.   
      
      
   Rod Liddle   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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