In England, a male patient raped a woman in a women’s hospital ward by pretending to be a woman. The hospital denied the woman’s complaint for over a year because the rapist was a trans woman. The rape was the direct result of a National Health Service policy known as Annex B, which orders hospitals to place patients in single-sex wards according to their preferred gender identity not their actual gender. By the terms of Annex B, if there is a male as a trans person in a female ward, and a female patient or anyone complains, they must be told that there is no male there. In other words, hospital staff is required to gaslight those under their care. The policy prioritizes the manufactured needs of trans women, i.e., men, over the organic interests of women.
The correct policy change is coming: no more male patients in the women’s ward (see Julie Bindel’s “Misogynistic Trans Activist Have Suffered a Huge Defeat”). Steve Barclay, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, is set to announce proposals that would see trans women banned from female wards. Makes total sense. But the crazies are out, for example India Willoughby, arguing that, since law and regulation allow men who pretend to be women to be classified as women in England, that means that, by definition, there was no man on the ward and therefore the rape never happened.
Have you got it yet? The people who wish away gender can also wish away an event in which a woman was raped. How many rapes have been covered up this way? A reminder, then: by definition, a woman is an adult female human being. It is an exclusive category. The slogan “Trans women are women,” is the slogan of a misogynistic cult that has wormed its way in the institutions of West. They are demanding not only that everybody adopt this ridiculous Orwellian slogan, but that the law stands in back of their demands. But the truth is that trans women are men. And while not all men are abusers and racists, enough men are that girls and women have a natural right to sex-exclusive spaces where they can reasonably expect that they only men they will be around are those they choose to be around.
freedom and reason 