Gender Issues/Sexual Preference Issues, News Thread

[Wendigo]

Originally Posted by foxbat1

You really don't have any original thoughts at all, do you? A living meme.

Calm down dear, it's only an infomercial. Give it a rest you tiresome troll.

Here's an original thought .hmmm.. there, that was good, now what was I doing before I was so crudely interrupted? Ah yes, back to watching a few more movies whilst you just fester and seethe in self righteous indignation

Humour just flies straight over your head doesn't it.



Toodles

Of course like any boring clown you will no doubt want the last word

[jomama]

Faces of transgender people adorn an artwork in London's Trafalgar Square

An artwork featuring the plaster face casts of hundreds of transgender people went on display Wednesday in London’s Trafalgar Square, where their features will be worn away by London’s wind and rain over the next 18 months.

Mexican artist Teresa Margolles’ “Mil Veces un Instante (A Thousand Times in an Instant)” is a 3.3-metric-ton (3.6-US-ton) cube covered in face masks of 726 trans, nonbinary and gender nonconforming people. It's the latest artwork placed atop the “ Fourth Plinth, ” a large stone pedestal in the central London square.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...d=BingNewsSerp

[Devius]

My remarks over a ‘dog in a frock’ plunged me into a Kafkaesque nightmare
Lesbian social worker Elizabeth Pitt was reported by council colleagues for ‘gender-critical views’ – kickstarting a 10-month legal battle
18 September 2024 2:30pm

It started with a dachshund in a dress, and ended with a legal case that has cost taxpayers thousands. Elizabeth Pitt, 63, a social worker, has won her 10-month legal battle against Cambridgeshire County Council for harassment and direct discrimination, after she was investigated for being transphobic.

“The whole thing has been a Kafkaesque nightmare,” she says. “I didn’t want to complain about anything, I just wanted to get on with my job. These people accusing me of transphobia thought they needed sympathy and empathy but in fact it was my rights which were being impinged. This all comes down to basic common sense.”

The case started back in 2022 when Pitt attended an LGBTQ meeting. “We were talking about doing a presentation to the whole county – everyone from bin men to admin staff – about how to support LGBT rights,” she says. “I made the point that I’m a lesbian and I’m not attracted to men who identify as women. I was reported for being transphobic and had a call from HR but it never went anywhere.”

Pitt says she tried to stay away from those who had different views to her and thought that this was nothing she hadn’t experienced before. “I’m in my sixties so I’ve been through feminism, and Section 28 [which prohibited the ‘promotion’ of homosexuality by schools and councils],” she says. “I’ve experienced misogyny and homophobia. But I’m inclusive. I can work with anybody and I can get the best out of people.”

But in January 2023, Pitt was in another LGBTQ meeting on Zoom in which a younger male colleague had held up his “gender-fluid dog”, named Pablo, in a dress. “I joined the meeting late, so I wasn’t even in the meeting when the dog in the frock happened, but apparently one of my colleagues said ‘He’s got a c--k so he’s a male,’” she recalls. “I was told what had happened and the tone of the meeting had been set. At one point I asked ‘Does anyone believe there’s more than two sexes?’ and was told ‘Yes it’s a spectrum’. I said ‘I don’t believe it’.”



Pitt says she doesn’t like to use pronouns as she believes they’re sexist and homophobic, and said that she resented having to use them in documentation at work and would actively remove them. “I just want to be treated as me, I don’t need to shove my sexuality down everyone’s throats,” she says.

After the meeting, Pitt, who qualified as a social worker in 2007 and specialises in the gap between health and social care, says she tried to get on with her job, but she was reported for voicing gender-critical views. One colleague was said to be left “shaking in disbelief” and another complained that it gave them “anxiety dreams”.

“Apparently they were terrified of me and my working practices,” she says. “They were saying things like ‘How would she be able to work with a trans person?’ but I’ve put my personal views aside to work with all kinds of people – murderers, rapists. I’m a considerate professional.”

In April, Pitt was informed that the council were formally investigating her. “I was treated abysmally,” she says. “Being accused of transphobia is like being accused of racism – it was a massive stress. The whole process was ridiculous. They were saying, ‘Tell me what you’ve done’ and I was saying ‘What do you think I’ve done?’ They tried to claim that it wasn’t what I said but the way I said it.”

She was then banned from the LGBT network. “I was totally shocked and incensed,” she says. “I don’t like that men who identify as women are in lesbian spaces, both online and in real life. You’ve got men who identify as women going to lesbian gigs. You’ve got women who identify as men going to gay saunas. These spaces are sacred. If you’re not gay you don’t understand it. But being a lesbian is protected in the Equality Act, which I knew very well from my work as a social worker. They were bullying me. It’s a mind game to turn it around and make me the oppressor and the transphobe. And they couldn’t actually tell me what I’d said or done that was transphobic.”

The next few months were spent “trying to fight and manage myself and my stressful job” but Pitt says she felt like she was constantly being “watched”. She went on sick leave suffering from anxiety. “The last straw was when I got a letter from the staff network saying I was banned from being a rep for the LGBT community,” she recalls. “That was something that was really important to me. I blew a gasket.”

She found a barrister who was willing to work with her and filed a formal complaint against the council. “It was a very difficult decision,” she says. “I knew it could mean that I lost my job, and I love my job. But I did want it to be a case that would be seen by the public. Workers can’t be treated like this, we all need to be protected.”

A friend suggested Pitt crowdfund the money to take her case to court. She eventually raised over £51,000. “So many people understood and supported me,” she says. “Thousands of people made small donations, whatever they could afford, but there were also a few big donations around £1,000 and £500. Martina Navratilova and Sharon Davis supported it on Twitter. A lot of sportswomen got behind me, I think they understood the unfairness of it, and the fact that I believe men who identify as women shouldn’t participate in womens’ sport.”

After months’ of hearings, the case made it to the tribunal, but Cambridge County Council conceded liability half an hour before the case was due to go to court. A spokesperson for CCC said: “After taking full and detailed legal advice on the merits of the case and the issues involved, the county council admitted legal liability and didn’t further defend the case. We strive to create a safe, inclusive and compassionate environment for people to work in and recognise this needs to be balanced with everyone being entitled to express their own views and beliefs. We will reflect carefully on this final outcome, as well as undertaking a review of our policies and procedures accordingly.”

Employment judge Paul Michell awarded Pitt £8,000 in legal costs, £30,000 in loss of earnings and £22,000 compensation for injury to feelings which, with interest added, totalled £55,910. But she says it was never about the money. “The council never had a case in the first place and it should never have come to this,” she says. “Everyone who pays council tax – myself included – has paid for this case.”

Pitt believes that the council and many other workplaces have been badly advised by Stonewall (the LGBT rights charity which runs workplace training) and that the trans movement is “just short of a cult”.

“I still stand by what I said. I’m same-sex attracted. For a man to say he’s a woman and is attracted to women and is a lesbian is nonsense,” she says. “If a man wants to live as a woman then do as you will, but if a man wants to say he’s a lesbian – no, that’s the boundary. Trans people can have their own groups.”

Although Pitt says she can sympathise with people who believe they’re a different gender, she finds the idea that you are born in the “wrong body” to be “disturbing”.

“That’s your body,” she says. “I really think a lot of the social work supporting trans children is tantamount to child abuse. I think language is being captured and people daren’t say anything because they can’t afford to lose their jobs. I couldn’t afford to lose mine, but they made my situation untenable.”

She is unsure what she’ll do next. “These were my good pension years and I’m not sure I can go back to social work,” she says. “I can’t work in Cambridge so I’d have to travel and I don’t feel able to step back into it. Sometimes it feels like there’s a big black hole that I’m going to fall into.” Her only hope is that this case will help others. “If people who can do something don’t do it then nothing will change, it will only get worse.”

Source:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/18/elizabeth-pitt-dog-in-dress-accused-transphobia-cambridge/

[badman999]

Originally Posted by Devius

My remarks over a ‘dog in a frock’ plunged me into a Kafkaesque nightmare
Lesbian social worker Elizabeth Pitt was reported by council colleagues for ‘gender-critical views’ – kickstarting a 10-month legal battle
18 September 2024 2:30pm

Source:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/18/elizabeth-pitt-dog-in-dress-accused-transphobia-cambridge/

Taxpayers need to pay a poor woman who was victimised by a bloke in a dress, who probably would never have been hired pre-DEI. Fuck that guy. And his fucking non-binary dog.