More on the NHS Fife case…
my @scotonsunday column on the resumption of Sandie Peggie’s tribunal: https://t.co/SRAFRmbXko pic.twitter.com/nahfPiIvYj
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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.
Mick Hartley 
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