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The calculus of disdain
Bell ruling shows how little cis faux feminists value trans lives
Trans folks celebrated yesterday’s court ruling. Gender crits gnashed their teeth and looked surly. One even went so far as to place a value on trans lives. It’s not great.
Now read on!
Yesterday’s Bell vs Tavistock ruling was good for several reasons. First, and most obvious was the removal of judges from medical decision-making and the unequivocal re-affirmation of the Gillick principle. That is, the principle that young people — and children — may take decisions without parental involvement, if they are deemed competent to do so.
That principle underpins much of the liberation of young women (from unwanted pregnancy, to forced marriage) and is just the sort of thing that the faux feminists of the anti-trans movement are against. Slur? Not at all, given that Bell’s lawyer has since made plain he is now going after the Gillick principle in its entirety. And yes: the anti-trans are cheering him on from the side-lines!
It also laid bare the contempt that these cissy activists have for the life of any trans child. For the mathematical, it permits us finally to put some numbers on that contempt.
