Mick Hartley

Alice Sullivan – her of Sullivan Report fame, on the disastrous erasure of biological sex by UK bodies like the NHS and the Civil Service and the ONS – interviewed in the Telegraph:

“I’m optimistic. I think this review marks a watershed. It has taken a long time but I really do believe we are beyond the point where we can be silenced. It’s the beginning of the end for no debate.”

Wouldn’t that be nice? I can’t help suggesting that Donald Trump of all people may have had a part to play in changing the proverbial mood music surrounding gender issues.

“As a life-long Leftie, it feels uncomfortable to be put in the position of agreeing with Donald Trump. But the fact is that he is simply saying that there are two sexes and that this matters, for example in prisons and sports. If Donald Trump says that the earth is round, should Leftists claim it is flat just to avoid being on the same side as him? This kind of tribal thinking has been horribly damaging to the Left. The idiotic positions that the Democrats took on these issues helped to gift the election to Trump. Mainstream politicians of all stripes need to learn from this that denying observable facts about the world is dangerous.”

For years now Sullivan has refused to be silenced by gender militants who have bullied and threatened her online. Instead she has continued to focus on “biological truth” and has striven – not always successfully – to staunch the tide of “ideological capture”, which has seen LGBTQ+ networks within our key organisations mount successful, sustained campaigns to change the culture within them.

“As a result, an atmosphere of fear has been created making people scared to speak out against or even discuss issues surrounding gender,” she says. “Bad decisions have been made by management because they have erroneously assumed these highly vocal activists represent far greater numbers than they do.”

Yet she still insists on recording gender identity:

“Sex and gender identity are distinct characteristics and are not interchangeable,” has always been her message. “But unfortunately people in a great many organisations don’t understand data collection as a discipline and have been taking advice from other people who don’t understand it either; the result is a mess. We need – we have a responsibility – to record both sex and gender identity.”

But why? The whole notion of gender identity is deluded – it's not a thing: it's a creature invented by trans activists. And including questions about gender identity will surely only add to the confusion, and replicate the disaster of the ONS survey where people not understanding what they were being asked led to the absurd "finding" that there more trans people in areas of high immigrant population. Everyone knows their sex – even if some try to deny or obfuscate – but only people versed in gender ideology have any idea what "gender identity" is supposed to mean.

Ah well. It's a big step forward anyway…