A domestic abuse charity has been criticised for encouraging “men who identify as women” to apply for a senior £47,000 a year “women-only” post. The Mail has the story.
Taxpayer-funded Scottish Women’s Aid (SWA) highlights that ‘all women’ will be considered for the key policy post.
Charity bosses insist that this would include “women with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment”.
Women’s rights campaigners have described the move as “unconscionable”.
Maya Forstater, CEO of human rights charity Sex Matters, insisted it was “frankly inexcusable” that SWA continued to misinterpret equality laws and put the “feelings of men with trans identities before the needs of vulnerable women”.
She said: “If a job needs to be done by a woman, as is usually the case in the women’s sector, employers can lawfully discriminate by excluding men from consideration for the role.
“Scottish Women’s Aid may, indeed should, turn down applications for this post from men who identify as women.
“The Equality Act protects transgender people from discrimination in situations such as renting a home or being served in a restaurant. It does not mean employers must consider men who identify as women for jobs that require an actual woman.
“The women who depend on Scottish Women’s Aid deserve better than such a fundamental and harmful misrepresentation of anti-discrimination law.”
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Testing.
Anybody experiencing problems on the site?
I’m not experiencing any.
Occasional irritating posts but nothing technical.
PS Not aimed at you Hux, you know who I mean.
Thanks.
Yes. Posted about it here.
Posts containing content the DS bots don’t like cannot be posted – and there is no indication why. Click ‘Post Comment’ and nothing happens. Start deleting paragraphs and eventually the post will post.
And this is an example of one of several posts I could not post with all the paragraphs.
It was quoting this article by Melanie Phillips:
The moral cowardice of the church Melanie Philips 30 #Aug 2024
One by one I had to delete all the quoted paragraphs until I was left with this one and then the comment could be posted:
“Christians in Africa have been subjected to barbaric slaughter and persecution by Islamists for decades. Two years ago, Open Doors, an organisation that supports persecuted Christians, observed: “In truth, there are very few Muslim countries—or countries with large Muslim populations —where Christians can avoid intimidation, harassment or violence.”
Absolutely no idea what the content was which the DS system would not allow to be posted.
The other quoted paragraphs which I had to delete described in more detail what the first paragraph above summarised.
huxleypiggles
The fact your comment above starts “Testing” suggested to me you have been experiencing something similar as I also posted comments like ‘Deleted’ and ‘Test’ just to see if I could post anything at all.
So I am guessing you have experienced something similar to that I have described?
Perhaps the hosting company has some new woke bots which censor comments by preventing them being posted?
Yes I had some problems logging in and got a notice saying I was temporarily blocked, something about a ”HTTP 503 error”. It seemed to rectify itself though. The site does seem to be glitchy every now and again. One of the main reasons the DS team changed to a system where you need an account and to log in before you can read certain articles or click the thumbs under posts was to combat the many bots ( and likely many obsessive trolls ) that would target the site. I think the site is very popular with these entities, so I’m pleased they did that. As my knowledge of all things I.T could fit onto a postage stamp, I’m not sure of other ways a determined army of bots could work around that and find other ways to make mischief on a site such as this.
When they have walked their whole lives in women’s shoes then I think they might be eligible, but I am reliably informed that, for example, the experience of male puberty differs substantially from the female version.
The use of artificial hormones may help some things grow but without surgical intervention the plumbing is entirely different and a womb and menstruation are out of reach of the even the most ardent wannabes.
Off-topic: The BBC using weasel words to avoid blaming the Notting Hill Carnival for a couple of murders: Mum and chef die after carnival weekend attacks. Oh yes, it was purely a coincidence that the carnival was on the same weekend that these two were murdered.
Of course, I shouldn’t say ‘murdered’ because it’s purely bad luck that they got knives stuck in them totally accidentally.
Yes, how is Keir Stalin going to pin this on the ‘far-right’, I wonder?
”Black privilege = being allowed a £12million annual brawl where people die, yet forever exempt from being called ‘far-right’.”
Meanwhile, maybe this one will go by with no-one getting stabbed, robbed, sexually assaulted….The Khant is depending on it;
”There’s just one week to go until our Black On The Square event takes place in the heart of London at Trafalgar Square.
Everyone is welcome and entry is free.”
https://x.com/MayorofLondon/status/1829807197611610621
What’s interesting is that Mayor Khant is so confident of his popularity amongst the British public that he always has comments turned off for anything he posts on Twitter.
And for this one, I note there’s no ”increase of stop and search” mentioned when they talk about things they’re doing to tackle crime, and I don’t think plaiting horse’s tails is really going to cut it. Maybe if police bothered to stop and search more those two people might not have been killed, but arresting armchair ‘terrorists’ is seen as a priority under Labour, seemingly;
https://x.com/MayorofLondon/status/1829776723778396293
This is an excellent new documentary which I found really interesting. It focuses on the seldom heard stories and experiences of so-called ”Trans widows”, the partners and wives of men who started to identify as women when they were in a relationship together, and they recount how they first found out the secret lives of their partners and how that had devastating effects on the family, especially where kids are involved. Several experts ( such as journalist Helen Joyce and psychologist Dr Ray Blanchard ) also feature and talk about the origins and wider impact of the transgender ideology on society;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frffv2sB8zE
Hopefully SWA are only highlighting that all “women” will be considered for the role to appear to be ticking all right the diversity and equality boxes, which they may have to do in order to continue getting funding from the Scottish government, and they actually have absolutely no intention of hiring a cock in a frock or a chick with a dick.