It's what we've been waiting for: the Communist Party's views on gender self-ID and Scotland's GRR (Gender Rcognition Reform) Bill.
- The real innovation of this Bill is to legislate for the self-ID of someone’s legal sex, embedding self-declared ‘gender identity’ in law. But when pursued to the exclusion of such considerations as the sex-based rights of women, and the fragmentation of equality legislation across Britain, it undermines the drive to build unity within and between the working class and the oppressed and disadvantaged groups in our society.
- The Communist Party is the only political party with a coherent political analysis of sex and gender. Gender as an ideological construct should not be confused or conflated with the material reality of biological sex. Gender is the vehicle through which misogyny is enacted and normalised. Gender identity ideology is well- suited to the needs of the capitalist class, focusing as it does on individual as opposed to collective rights, enabling and supporting the super-exploitation of women.
- For these reasons, the Communist Party rejects gender self-ID as the basis for sex- based entitlements in law to women’s single-sex rights, spaces and facilities. The Party will continue to oppose any proposed legislation – whether at Scottish, Welsh or British level – that seeks to enact such a provision.
- We call for ‘sex’ as a protected characteristic under the 2010 Equality Act to be defined as ‘biological sex’.
Can't wait for the Guardian columns denouncing the British Communist Party as far-right. https://t.co/8qkdSHANg0
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) March 30, 2023
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Update: Owen Jones is not happy:
Interesting take Owen. Difficult to see how a GRR statement, gay rights and abortion rights in the Soviet Union are linked. Is there anything else you want to unburden yourself of? The CP and ALL its members as a matter of record,
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And again:
Very excited to announce that after a long stretch of being Literally Hitler I've become Ideologically Stalin.
With luck, hard work and your continued support, I believe I can make Vlad the Impaler by Christmas.
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