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Interesting to see that the communist party of Britain came out against gender identity, being the “only party in Britain to do so”.
Rather good arguments as well.
https://www.communistparty.org.uk/the-gender-recognition-bill-and-equality-law/
Of course the average generation Z twitter communist (of the type who has read one book and it’s not the communist manifesto, but the one from the evil transphobe) is up in arms in their respective bedrooms and basements. What would the communist party of Great Britain, an actual party rooted in tradition and theory, associated with actual working people who leave their bedrooms know about communism anyway. It’s all about beating up terfs. It’s always been about beating up terfs, that’s what historical determinism is about.
I don’t live in Britain anymore but if I did I would vote for the communists for the first time ever.
It's a very 'conservative' mealy-mouthed statement that seems desperate to look for an excuse to not put themselves behind placing men into womens prisons. Here's a pro-tip for center liberals and the CPB: If you say you are in favor of trans rights, open your eyes and recognize that these are men asking for the rights and privileges of women. If you are in favor of that don't act shocked or walk back your support or hide behind excuses when those men take advantage of those rights and privileges.
Worries about legal implications and consequences for the broader system are, in activist terms, called growing pains. To give an example of this, the desegregation implementation in the US impacted prisoners a lot. We are talking untold numbers of beatings, killings and rapes. All for racial justice. Similar stories can be found in British society and in British prisons as a consequence of immigration.
The morbid facts of those matters are not of any significant inconvenience to anyone who pushed for the policies of desegregation or immigration and integration. It's at best an inconvenient bump in the road that, in hindsight, should have been handled slightly differently, but never will be since doing so might make the whole thing look worse. But there's no grief there or anything. No one loses any sleep over it, ever. No matter how gruesome and horrifying the consequence of their advocacy was and continues to be. Most people never even think about it.
Compared to that, what is the worst case scenario here? What am I being asked to think and care about? A trans person rapes a woman in jail? Or, to put it in a way that is consistent with the CPB's own statement, a woman rapes a woman in jail? Sorry, compared to the rest of the progressive program, an increase in rapes in womens prisons isn't something I'm going to be losing sleep over. Nor should anyone in favor of desegregation or third world immigration if they in any way shape or form care about consistency. It's actually just a gender inclusive joke now. Don't drop the soap!
All in all, I find the whole clash between trans issues and womens issues to be highly illustrative of just how much more society cares for women than men. We are seeing strides towards gender equality that no MRA type could ever even have dreamt of. All off the back of a few guys who pretend to be women. Like, as a man, the actual mechanism for more equality is to pretend to be a woman.
The ideology says that women don't have privileges, even when they do, so I doubt this will happen.
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