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Helen Joyce on Standing for Women:
I think at least part of the reason for that accusation of disingenuousness is that people can’t believe that they ever liked, or respected, or even tolerated someone who would refuse to join in the latest denunciation. So I must only ever have been pretending to be decent and respectable, and they now feel betrayed. And of course it has to be my fault. It can’t possibly be that they misunderstood my position all along; I must have been deceiving them…
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Perhaps the gentry left wants to throttle gender lunacy behind closed doors because it’s so embarrassing to be its origin. Or perhaps it’s because the only end to genderism they are willing to contemplate is as part of a glorious socialist future. Have a read of the Woman’s Place UK manifesto. The group started as a single-issue campaign against gender self-ID, which everyone except the genderist left could rally around. Its broader platform, however, is to bring about a gender-free Marxist utopia—a goal that hardly anyone in Britain shares, and which will happen, if at all, only in some far-distant future.
This isn’t my vision of the way I want the world to be, and I’m not in this fight to help rescue the left from its lunatic fringe. I’m in it, and always have been, in part to protect women’s existing sex-based rights but mostly to try to limit the number of children indoctrinated and sterilised by the world’s nastiest neo-religion.
And the idea that the best way to do that is to wait until the GC left throttles the genderist left is, frankly, absurd. It will be far quicker to go around them than to try to bring them round. Outside the left almost everyone understands, once they know what’s going on, that gender-identity ideology is idiotic and dangerous. So do an increasing number of Tory MPs and ministers.
In a democracy the quickest way to change policies is to influence the administration, legislature and voters. Right now that’s best done by talking to the centre and mainstream right, and leaving left-wingers to fight among themselves.
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