Gender ideology is so obviously ludicrous that we are all aware of the architecture of free speech suppression that is required to keep it in place.
First, the Equality Act makes ‘gender reassignment’ a protected characteristic. You cannot discriminate against someone based on a protected characteristic.
Then, astonishingly, the protected characteristic is not narrowly defined to apply to that tiny group of individuals who have gone to the lengths of obtaining a gender recognition certificate. You do not even need to begin a ‘process of transition’. You only need to be ‘proposing’ to do so. In effect, say that you have the protected characteristic of gender reassignment, and you have it.
Next comes the ‘Public Sector Equality Duty’, also within the Equality Act. This requires public authorities to eliminate discrimination, advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations between those with different protected characteristics.
Over time, these pieces of law have come to be interpreted to mean that you cannot tell a bloke that he is a bloke – that is discrimination. Nor can you prevent him from using the women’s changing rooms – that is not fostering good relations.
If you test this, the edifice of ‘non-crime hate incidents’ from the College of Policing comes into play. Call a spade a spade and you might get a visit from the police, be told to ‘check your thinking’ and have a note placed on your police record. If you are a nurse working for the NHS and you describe a bloke as a bloke because he is requiring sex-specific treatment you may find yourself subject to disciplinary proceedings and your fitness to practice as a nurse publicly questioned.
This architecture has proved so successful at costing many people their jobs and livelihoods and maintaining gender ideology in place across our institutions that it seems surprising that the ‘gender lobby’ feels much need for anything else.
That is why the silly charts are perplexing. What are they for? I first pondered this when I came across this silly chart shared by the NHS. Considering the subjects of gender identity and sexual orientation, it shows you how a person attending a medical appointment might first share his or her personal data: at home, or at the front desk, or later on.
Dumbfounded by its silliness, I was reminded of other silly charts, tables and extensive bullet points relating to the same subject.
The Financial Conduct Authority ran an EDI consultation in 2023 wherein it suggested that firms across the entire financial services sector should collect staff’s gender identity on a voluntary basis, but with a view to making this mandatory (let that sink in). The consultation included this table:
The Stonewall Workplace Equality Index (WEI) contains page after page of silly charts and growing numbers of bullets. Which bit is peak madness? “For B, funding a bi-specific strand of an LGBTQ+ Pride event”… Get your head around bullet point seven.
Also from the Stonewall WEI. Dare we say H?:
Also from the Stonewall WEI. Note the inclusion of Ace and Aro-spectrum. Points for the extra bullet, but does it render the previous charts Ace-and-Aro-phobic?:
My favourite flowchart is this, from the Sex Education Forum:
What is it all about?
Those who ponder gender ideology often look for poignant warnings from Orwell or Huxley or Milan Kundera. However, I am not sure whether Winston Smith, or Bernard Marx, or Tomas and Teresa from The Unbearable Lightness of Being were required to wrestle with this particular form of stupidity. But the title of the last gives the clue. The silly charts are designed to confer weight. Weight and legitimacy. Of course they fail miserably.
Yet there are real people in EDI jobs in large corporations and the public sector, today, who are required to spend their day wading through those Stonewall WEI charts. Do they dare to laugh? People who work at the Sex Education Forum have stood up at training sessions and explained the menstruator flow diagram to teachers. Do they keep a straight face? Yes – because the money follows.
There is a vast architecture and edifice of piffle in place designed to prop up gender ideology. Right at its base is one simple idea: men are women. But no new arrow in a flowchart, no additional bullet, no number of silly charts can make it so.
Caroline ffiske is a Director of Conservatives for Women. Find her on X.
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The thing is…..where will the comedy gold come from if the climate comedians shut up shop?
‘Nearly all the world’s governments and vast numbers of its people are convinced that addressing human-induced climate change is essential if healthy societies are to survive. The two solutions most often proposed go by various names but are widely known as ‘green growth’ and ‘degrowth’
‘……many of these wellbeing goals can be achieved using a fraction of the wealth of advanced nations. For example Cuba with about an eighth of the GDP per capita, has similar life expectancy and literacy rates to the United States.’
Mark Fabian, University of Warwick. Genius
Let Mark Fabian be first. Remove his boiler, car and food made with fossil fuels. Once dead from cold these ppl won’t be so much bother.
That is the sort of considered and measured response I appreciate.
Why don’t they all go and live in Africa where humans, for various reasons, have a much lower “carbon footprint”? There is a lot of space there and people from rich world countries could buy very nice houses.
Cuba has about 3.4% of the population of the USA. This is simply not a valid comparison.
We live in a deepening ice age that started 2.8m years ago, anyone worrying about some miniscule warming is frankly insane.
“Warming” is really not what the UN, the WEF, and all western governments and media are worried about. They are worried about poor people in poor countries using up fossil fuels in the ground and having the same standard of living as those in the prosperous wealthy western countries. Fossil fuels are a finite resource, and just as we cannot continue to sip at a pint of Guiness, we cannot continue forever to use up this finite resource. So along comes the UNIPCC, to provide the excuse for not using them up and that excuse is “climate change” that eventually morphed into the “climate emergency”. ———————-So we (in the west) send poor people in poor countries some money for turbines and solar panels to try and keep their mouths shut but only if they agree to leave their fossil fuels in the ground. We then inflict impoverishment on our own citizens who by now have mostly swallowed the “climate crisis” nonsense all down because they see it every single day on their 6 o’clock news. We are to get rid of our fantastic gas central heating and make do with expensive noisy heat pumps that won’t keep us very warm like gas does. We are to be rid of our cars and only use ones powered by the wind and sun. We are to stop flying or be shamed into stopping. We are not to eat beef, but maybe locusts and other assorted insectum. ————“Warming” then is the excuse for the politics. The politics of Sustainable Development. Doesn’t that sound like a nice sensible thing? Who could possibly object to something being “Sustainable”? ———-Until you realise what it really means that is. It means a world run by technocrats accountable to no one and elected by no one. They will even tell you how much warming is allowed and that they can keep that warming at 1.5 degrees if we only hand over control of the world’s wealth and resources to them. —-If you believe that you will believe anything, and some people so thoroughly believe it that they glue themselves to the road clamouring for their own impoverishment.
Club of Rome 1972.
Yes we know. But you just reduced the whole thing down to the lowest common denominator. It isn’t quite as simplistic as the me old mate.
Twenty five years in a period spanning 2.8 million years. That is just taking the P.
A very pleasantly written article summing up the climate hype in layman’s terms ,showing how & why we are where we are ! Thanks to the likes of Gates & Soros & their collective useful idiots !
Climate hysteria as well as all the woke nonsense are like a black mould stifling all life and creativity out of society, suffocating common sense and reason. It proliferates despite all attempts to combat it (I refer to them all). The infected legions continue to parrot their catechisms of fear and victimhood against all odds. I don’t know what the answer is but whatever THEY (the so called PTB) have in store for us, I ain’t playing along and as long as there are scores of us doing this, they will fail. I think they’ll fail anyway because it’s such utter drivel.
…”climate collapse.” What the hell is that? Are we all simply evaporated or something?
What does the climate collapse in to? Or perhaps Planet Earth disappears via some yet undiscovered black hole.
“Climate collapse” is a lazy use of words which cedes the use of language to the eco genocidalists.
Too right, HP. The people using such words have never for one second stopped to wonder what they actually mean. The intention is always to create fear and panic – just listen to the nonsense that comes out of the mouths of any Just Stop Oil fanatics. It reminds me of the guy who used to wander up and down Oxford Street wearing a sandwich board that announced ‘The End is Nigh’ but x 1000s! The climate will continue as it does whatever we do while THEY will try and corral us into 15 min cities, take away our cars and try and kill us off. It ain’t going to happen!
With you Aethelred
On GB News Nana Akua show on Saturday the question was asked “Should rich countries be sending money to poor countries to help them avoid the worst of climate change”. —————Ofcourse on the panel was the GB news resident climate alarmist Jim Dale (a meteorologist) who thinks that no one can have a different point of view to him because of what his profession is. Not even other people equally or better qualified than him, and there are many who are. If they do have a different opinion, that maybe climate change is not the catastrophe that Jim has decided it is then he will question where there funding comes from and insist they must have an agenda. He will ofcourse mean that they must be fossil fuel lackeys trying to defend the agenda of coal oil and gas companies. —-But Mr Dale. All climate change science is funded entirely by government, so what makes you think fossil fuel funded science has an agenda, but government funded science does not? Ofcourse it does. It is the political agenda of the UN called Sustainable Development. ————-But also Mr. Dale your expertise is in weather as a meterologist, so why do you think your view on the politics of sending money to poor countries is something you should be pontificating on? ——–You are not an eco socialist politician are you? If someone passes comment you disagree with on climate you will question their right to do so because it is not their field, so politics is NOT your field either so SHUT IT. ————-While I was typing this comment I just saw the very same Jim Dale and that Irish Journalist from the Independent get a free pass on GB news for their climate propaganda as Eamonn and Isabel just sat there like two dummies because neither of them have a clue on this issue and were both schooled on it at SKY NEWS. Then on comes that Lady Maguire to say that “All scientists agree”———–Eamonn or Isabel should have stepped in right away and said “Please name 10 climate scientists that agree”. ——But they are unable to even think to ask any questions at all. ———–I am very surprised at GB news for this little climate change party this morning
If you saw his performance on the same slot but this time with Paul Burgess, a proper climate scientist, you would have witnessed his evisceration. He didn’t have an argument, just opinions whereas Paul Burgess had facts, graphs, climate history etc. Jim Dale is just hot air – he should comment less in fact as he is probably adding to the era of global boiling!
I have seen Dale with Burgess twice on GB News. —-But this morning Eamonn and Isabel showed exactly why they should not be questioning people like Dale and that insidious squirmer from the Independent. Because they know NOTHING about energy or climate and Dale and that other activist posing as a journalist run rings around them.
Well in any case the climate is safe from collapse and the planet will not boil because the England and Wales Cricket Board has pledged to reach “net zero” by 2040. No, I am not making this up: Climate Change: ECB signs up to UN’s Sports for Climate Action Framework – BBC Sport
No ‘net practice’?! Whatever is the world coming to! I imagine the Transgender Ashes will be a thing by then played in rainbow outfits to a few miserable spectators at Lords, Ladies, Them, They and It’s Cricket Ground.
Oh praise be !! I shall be sleeping much more soundly with this knowledge!
Funny——–Or at least it would be if it were not so pathetic.