A debate at McGill University in Canada on The Sex vs. Gender (Identity) Debate In the United Kingdom and the Divorce of LGB from T Event, featuring Robert Wintemute, a Professor of Human Rights Law at King’s College London:
Since 2018, there has been a debate in the United Kingdom about whether or not the law should be changed to make it easier for a transgender individual to change their legal sex from their birth sex, and about exceptional situations, such as women-only spaces and sports, in which the individual’s birth sex should take priority over their gender identity, regardless of their legal sex. This debate inspired the foundation in 2019 of an organisation, LGB Alliance, which rejects the political coalition of LGB and T and challenges some transgender demands, on the basis that they conflict with the rights of lesbian and bisexual women or the rights of children who might grow up to be LGB adults.
Really? In Canada? Of course it didn't happen.
Trans rights advocates stormed into a talk Tuesday afternoon at McGill University led by a speaker associated with a group they say is "notoriously transphobic and trans-exclusionary."
The talk was ultimately cancelled shortly after it started….
The CHRLP's website describes the event as a conversation around whether the law should make it easier for a transgender person to change their legal sex, "and about exceptional situations, such as women-only spaces and sports, in which the individual's birth sex should take priority over their gender identity, regardless of their legal sex."
"The T (trans) is so much more vulnerable than the rest of LGB. I think there's tons of scientific evidence speaking to that," said Celeste Trianon, a trans activist who led the protest against the event.
There's no scientific evidence speaking to that, but the point is now a fixed part of trans doctrine which cannot be gainsaid, as once again violent trans activists prevent any discussion.
Trianon said Wintemute's talk excludes transgender people's rights and is transphobic, further discriminating against the community.
But Wintemute, the man at the centre of the controversy, maintains he does not promote transphobic views and describes the reaction to his talk as "hysterical."
He says he has a 37 years' experience defending LGB human rights and he would never associate with any group that "promotes hate." He said he came to McGill to promote the message that women have human rights too, but they feel intimidated by the trans rights movement.
"So I have to thank the protesters for giving me first-hand experience of that intimidation," said Wintemute after the event. "Probably the majority of women in this country disagree with some of transgender demands but they refuse to say so because they will be seen as intolerant."
Any discussion or criticism is seen as "hate speech," he said. The protesters held signs saying "no debate," he noted, "and many women around the world disagree." The idea that his seminar would lead to genocide of trans people is "absolutely absurd," he said.
But there's no arguing with these people.
Though Canada and Quebec have remained "mostly sheltered" from transphobic rhetoric, those ideas have gained momentum in the U.S. and the U.K. and could easily spread here, said Trianon.
That's one way of putting it. They're "mostly sheltered" from "transphobic rhetoric" because people like her violently prevent any discussion. And because, well…this is Canada, where women's rights come a distant second to trans demands.
Update:
1./ This is mass delusion.
10 years ago if you'd imagined the scene when a distinguished professor of human rights turned up to a leading university to discuss gay rights…would it have resembled this? A crowd of jeering bullies? Flour thrown? Placards shoved in his face? pic.twitter.com/ACNxQhtfLS— Malcolm Clark (@TwisterFilm) January 11, 2023
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