This article is like Fox News, in that McKinstry has constructed a narrative with a few tiny grains of truth and a scaffolding of idiocy.
Firstly, the logic of there not being enough transsexuals for us to bother protecting them is baffling. Would he say the same thing about other minorities, like black people or disabled people? Maybe we shouldn't bother fighting racism, because black people only make up 2% of the population.
'The sexualisation of children...by the aggressive promotion of the so-called rights agenda' falls just short of accusing gay rights campaigners of encouraging paedophilia. Because heterosexuals never talk to children about sex, do they Leo? And nor should they, those filthy bastards. Children knowing about their bodies and understanding them? Disgusting filth.
‘…A new system of lining people up for class by mixed-sex group labelled using basic shapes… rather than by gender.’ Well, this already happens. Children are split into teams often enough, like the red team or the yellow team. And their classes are a way of grouping them. Class 2A: now that just shows that political correctness has gone Too Far. You know, they’re calling classes things like ‘2A’ instead of ’10-year old penis carriers’.
Secondly, what's wrong with splitting people into groups based upon something other than gender? Maybe we could be perceived as human beings rather than sets of characteristics based upon our genitals.
'Prisons are warned against stopping hormone therapy for transgender convicts.' Yes, because it is a human rights and a health issue, just as prisons cannot stop giving diabetics insulin so prescribed hormones should not stop being given.
'When speaking to transgender people, public officials are instructed to use the pronoun that is consistent with the person's appearance and gender expression.' Um, don't they do this to everyone? As far as I'm aware, they don't strip-search everyone checking for willies before they address them in order to be able to speak to them.
Thinking that gender identity is subjective does not 'contradict almost a million years of biology', just as saying 'I have feelings' does not. Human beings are allowed to have feelings. (And, not all trans activists have that view anyway.)
The EHRC is giving grants to charities helping LGBTIQA people and travellers. The clue is in the name, Mr McKinstry. Equality and Human Rights Commission. It is there to promote equality: it is not there to buy Jeremy Clarkson cars or start up shoe shops.
It is not shocking, either that ’15 Commissioners are from the politically correct nexus of public bureaucracy, trade unionism and progressive politics.’ So the commissioners are civil servants and politicians? Really? A body funded by the government is full of civil servants?!
I like the idea of Harriet Harman’s ‘sinister social order’. If there’s any politician who does not look sinister, it’s Harman.
‘Schools who have the audacity to make their pupils wear skirts should be very afraid indeed.’ You can already opt out of wearing a skirt on religious grounds – most of my Muslim friends at school did. But opting out on the basis of your gender identity is apparently uncool according to McKinstry.
It is hard to understand why anyone would have these views: fair enough, a lot of people have problems with the EHRC, but if McKinstry pointed out the EHRC’s flaws in a sensible way instead of spouting a load of reactionary bigotry, perhaps he would have written a rather more interesting article.
'The sinister forces behind that threat to banish school skirts', Leo McKinstry, Daily Mail
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