First Amendment: US Constitution “Congress shall make no law........ abridging the freedom of speech......and more.
Thought police gone wild in UK where speech is not free.
The UK has no right to free speech as is guaranteed in our First Amendment. The only protections for free speech are found in the Human Rights Act (HRA) of the EU which was incorporated into English law in 1998. But that legislation (based on the input of 28 diverese nations) has so many exceptions —too many to name here—that the HRA is essentially meaningless to protect free speech and meaningful debate on issues of policy. If citizens are denied a forum how can debate and thought and policy evolve? Sadly Wikipedia notes that in In 2017 there were nine people per day arrested in th UK for speech violations —with most of them leading to conviction.
With those ideas as preamble, lets turn to an article in the UK Guardian (theguardian.com) concerning Ms Maya Forstater, a British subject and tax expert who was until recently, visiting fellow at the Center For Global Development (CGD), a London “think tank”. Ms Forstater was fired from her position based on statements she made about transgender issues on social media. Forstater is a feminist who believes—-like most biologists— that gender is immutable and that sex is binary-male and female. Sex is not determined by how you were raised—but is a biological imperative..like rising CO2 levels, climate change. evolution and the fact that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Ms Forstater stated on social media that “men cannot change into women.” She was fired from her position by CGD for that statement.
Ms Forstater proceeded to seek redress In a subsequent court case against the CGD for terminating her. In that case the presiding judge, James Tayler ruled against her. Judge Tayler in a 26 page document, termed her statements were “absolutist”, not protected as a philosophical belief, were offensive and exclusionary, and that her statements created an hostile and intimidating environment, and her (statements) were not worthy of respect in a democratic society. This author is of the opinion that the response for simply stating the obvious biological fact that “men cannot change into (real) women” was way out of line. And deserves further adjudication perhaps in a higher court. To an American—protected by our First Amendment it seems contrary to our democratic norms.
So that’s how poorly free speech is unprotected in the UK. Apparently the thought police are actively controlling what a citizen can say and think in the UK How disgraceful.
As any high school biology teacher can explain. Physical sex or gender is not a choice. It is determined at conception. You are either xx (female) and xy (male). Every single cell in a human body is determined. Remove an epithelial cell from the inner surface of the cheek of anyone and you can without looking any further, determine if that individual is male or female. That one epithelial cell would tell you.
Females have ovaries which generate hormones which control subcutaneous fat distribution, development of mammaries, emotions, sex drive, skeletal pattern, the unique way the female pelvic girdle is designed to facilitate child birth, as well as that unique monthly cycle. Even long after death a forensic pathologist can determine from muscle attachment scars and other indices such as the structure of the pelvic girdle (and many other bones) if an individual was a male or female. A male skeleton—even wimpy males—will be strikingly different than that of a female. Males do not have ovaries or a uterus and no surgeon can generate such organs for transgenders . Males can not bear children. These transgender —gender bender folks—are sadly only transvestites taken to the extreme as a result of exaggerated plastic surgery.
Yes some disreputable surgeons and physicians (who ignore their Hippocratic Oath—“to do no harm”-) will dose a male (or female) with massive hormones which can mimic those of the female. (These expensive procedures have to be continued for life). The body will respond to these chemicals. But the results are only superficial. The person who undergoes this treatment begins to take on the “appearance” of a female, such as changes in subcutaneous fat distribution, suppression of facial hair, and development of mammary glands, but the individual continues to have the genitalia of a male. Additional surgery (more irresponsible physicians) can alter these genitalia by removal (or additions in a female) but they are not functional as in a “real”, natural, whole, xx chromosome—woman (or xy man).
So the thought police in the UK are active in response to those who would deny biology and the biological imperative of sex determinism and absolutism. Yes I am absolutely sure that the Sun—not the Earth is the center of the Solar system—and that males cannot be made into females. The rest of us must resist such stupidity and abiological extremism.
The author J. K. Rowling jumped into the fray in London tweeting the following:
“Dress however you please.
Call yourself whatever you like.
Sleep with any consenting adult that will have you.
Live your best life in peace and security.
But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real?”
I might add —don’t try to undermine the imperatives of science...don’t slap Mother Nature in the face —-we do so at the peril of survival of the human race.
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