The resemblance is uncanny.
In his manifesto, seen by PinkNews , Bramham says women are “adult human females” and that being gay means you have “same-sex attraction”.
“Changing sex is impossible,” Bramham writes. “Gay and lesbians have been abandoned by Stonewall, LGBT Foundation and others. The Conservative party’s no-nonsense approach is a winner with voters.”
Bramham goes on to suggest that the group should be separated into “LGB and gender ideology lobbyists”, adding: “LGB issues are not trans issues and we deserve to have a voice and representation as much as trans people deserve a platform. The Conservatives should work closely with LGB Alliance as they grow”.
He describes himself as “proudly gender critical” and insists that sex is “binary and immutable” and says that he would “immediately sever all ties with Stonewall” if he is elected chair of the LGBT+ Conservatives.
Who could have seen that coming?
Oh right, the 96% of voters there that voted remain!
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Last month, the Cass Review released an interim report, commissioned by the NHS, to examine the state of healthcare for trans youth in the UK. There is currently only one specialty service for under 18s in the entire country: the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at Tavistock. The report essentially tells us what we already know: more NHS services for trans minors are needed.
And predictably, right-wing politicians are treating the Cass Review’s guidance as the end of civilization. In particular, Tory minister Sajid Javid, who is the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, has suggested that making these services even slightly more available will have dire consequences.
During a House of Commons meeting on April 19th in which ministers were discussing the interim report, Conservative MP James Sunderland expressed “concern” that the NHS makes “a child’s expressed gender identity the start point for treatment.” He asked health minister Javid whether he agrees.
“It’s already clear to me from [Cass’s] interim findings and from the other evidence that I’ve seen that the NHS services in this area are too narrow, they are overly affirmative, and in fact they’re bordering on ideological,” Javid responded, per PinkNews .
“And that is why in this emerging area, of course, we need to be absolutely sensitive. But we need to make sure that there is holistic care that’s provided, there’s not a one-way street and that all medical interventions are based on the best clinical evidence.”
But the idea that gender-affirming care is too accessible has never been an issue for the NHS. In addition to the many mental health professionals trans youth have to speak to in order to confirm a gender dysphoria diagnosis, the waitlist for even one appointment for gender-affirming services in the NHS is more than five years.
Oh you arse
Rees-Mogg gonna Rees-Mogg.
Not surprised he’s on the side of “people have to be in the office so we can lord over them properly”, of course.
From a 2012 New Yorker article
Last week, an agreement was announced in the dispute over control of Cato, America’s first, and largest, libertarian think tank. In exchange for the retirement of Cato’s current C.E.O., Ed Crane, and acceptance from all sides of his replacement, the banker John Allison, Charles and David Koch agreed to end their litigation. They also agreed to abandon their effort to exert influence over the organization through an ownership arrangement that involved them holding shares rather than relying on the board of directors to pick top personnel. And they agreed that only David Koch, and not his brother Charles, would take a place on the think tank’s board. Reduced to its simplest level, says Bruce Bartlett, a conservative economist and historian who briefly worked at Cato and who has fallen out with the Kochs, the dispute came down to control of the think tank’s post-Crane future: “It was about making sure that when he left they would name his successor.” Under Crane, Cato achieved a degree of intellectual independence, pushing not only the predictable anti-government, pro-business views of the Kochs but also some ideas that clashed with the Republican platform, including opposition to the use of torture during the Bush years and support for gay rights and drug legalization—both of which David Koch supports, but which he and his brother have not made priorities.
Oh to be not-completely morally bankrupt! But that was a decade ago, and they might well have become more fascist over time-- it’s a waste of time to track the palace coups, much less give them the time of day.
I can’t even with this lot. Why you would do this in the Commons of all places when they’re packed in like sardines and with a public gallery overhead. Possibly because we live in a world of consequence free politics…
