Halt the gender juggernaut, says NICK FERRARI
FIRST they came for our toilets. Then they moved on to our census forms. Now, they’re after our passports.
This Morning: Holly clashes with guest over gender-neutrality
Excuse me, but just when did the transgender lobby move from being respectfully tolerated to being cravenly indulged?
Safe to say, common sense has well and truly left the building.
Let’s get one thing straight from the very start. Anyone who is experiencing emotional trauma or a crisis over their gender or sexuality is fully deserving of all the necessary help.
However, the fact that an extremely vocal and well-managed minuscule minority can start to dictate so much of the everyday lives of the vast majority is beyond comprehension.
The fact that an extremely vocal and well-managed minuscule minority can start to dictate so much of the everyday lives of the vast majority is beyond comprehension
Most of us are still reeling from the perplexing move by many education authorities to sanction the creation of “gender neutral” toilets.
We are told children who feel conflicted about whether they might be trapped in the wrong body need a “safe space” when they have to answer a call of nature.
Personally speaking, in many of our schools I would have thought that opting to give the boys’ or girls’ facilities a miss and to head straight for the gender neutral loo would be akin to painting a large target on the child’s back, and yet any appeal to reason is drowned out by the shrill voices that claim ignoring this massively low percentage of our youngsters is close to torture.
Last week began with the deeply troubling news that the national census needs a radical overhaul.
The question concerning the respondent’s gender should be struck off, or a separate box provided to allow someone to opt out.
WHAT?! Why on earth would a sane society even consider this lunacy?
These censuses date all the way back to 1801 and while it is fair to say that one question a few years back about which religion you might follow understandably caused anxiety, they’ve proceeded pretty well since then.
They also clearly highlight the crucial need to ascertain the way the nation’s population might be changing, with respect to gender numbers.
If, for instance, it is discovered that there has been a marked rise in the number of child-bearing women moving to a certain part of the UK, it would be absolutely vital for the necessary maternity services to be provided.
Similarly, if one area has already had a baby boom, it will obviously require a greater spend on developing primary school facilities than an area with a rapidly ageing population.
Put simply, pretty much everything from buses to births and housing to health relies on this data but, quite astonishingly, the trans lobby enjoys such power, anyone in any semblance of power is trapped like a rabbit in the headlights, unwilling to challenge them in any way.
This same inertia was seen again towards the end of last week when a campaign to ensure we have gender-free passports gained momentum after dozens of misguided MPs supported the idea of a parliamentary debate over the issue.
We are told that people with gender issues sometimes have difficulty “presenting themselves” at the passport desk and find the experience daunting and upsetting.
While a degree of sympathy should be extended to them, are they really suggesting the biggest challenge they face in life is being able to get through the airport and on to the plane?
Passports are a vital tool for national security.
It has been well reported that some of those allegedly involved in the plotting of some terror attacks in this country have been detained as they have tried to leave the country.
Currently, the police are able to put out a nationwide alert concerning, for example, a 35-year-old, heavy-set, man.
This instantly allows border staff to focus even more closely on that criteria. Putting out an alert for a “person” is risible.
It’s time to balance a desirable wish for tolerance with respect for the rest of us. And to remember that respect provides us with our all-important services and even security.
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Hardly had they unpacked their bags from the collective nervous breakdown that was their party conference in Manchester, than the Conservatives were at it again.
All the jealousies, back-stabbing and treachery that were papered over as effectively as putting a sticking plaster on a freshly severed limb were evident again last week.
The more they say “we’re determined to get on with the job” the more we know how consumed they are with power plays and putsches.
The party in government, entrusted with handling the biggest challenge for this nation since the last world war, is seen to be a bunch of children bickering in the playground.
Does Theresa like Philip? Why can’t Boris and Amber play well together? It’s beyond pitiful.
Here’s a simple message to these self-obsessed egocentrics: Stop thinking you’re in an episode of Game Of Thrones, start pulling together and get the bloody job done.
Otherwise, the Great British public will never forgive you and you’ll be out of power for more years than you can imagine.
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As the trickle of claims became a torrent, the Hollywood code of silence started to crumble.
It would seem easier to list the actresses who weren’t hit on by Harvey Weinstein.
As police around the world start inquiries, surely there needs to be another investigation, one that examines how some of the most insufferable bores on Earth opted to look away for so long.
Hollywood figures lecture us on everything from helping Native Americans to saving the rainforest yet stayed silent about the vile antics of one of their own.
It’s unlikely all knew but many would have heard something.
Remember that the next time they start pontificating about the need for safe spaces in Patagonia for whale farmers.
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For those of us who might have been fortunate enough to be able to buy one, among our most fervent wishes is to pass our home on to our children.
It can easily be argued that this is a central plank of the Conservative creed and appeals to hard-working middle-class parents.
All of which makes the crass comments from the hapless care minister Jackie Doyle-Price even more insulting.
At a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference she said these parents shouldn’t see their homes as “an asset to give to their offspring”.
How charming. And this woman is the “care” minister!
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Jeremy Hunt cringes when asked about NHS pay Cap
A shortage of GPs is threatening to spell the end of the traditional family doctor.
Indeed your doctor and their surgery are the front line of the NHS and if that fails, the whole service collapses. The remedy?
“The truth is that because we have under-invested in general practice over decades, we have made it much, much harder for you to deliver the continuity of care that I think is part of the magic of general practice,” a doctors’ meeting was told.
Who might the speaker have been? None other than Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
Yes, that would be the same man who has been in charge of the NHS for more than five years.
Might it be more appropriate for him to take a dose of his own medicine and resolve the crisis?