Even The Trans Takeover of a Women's Rape Centre Doesn't Mean We've Hit Bottom Yet
Part two of the Slippery Slope Series: The Slippery Trans Slope
In Part 1 of the Slippery Slope Series, I discussed the Trudeau government's failed “safer supply” experiment. As with so many things these days, the conservative voices on the sidelines begging people to just put on the brakes a little bit are so often derided, mocked, and ultimately ignored in favour of “progressivism”, only to find ourselves in precisely the situation these voices were warning us about. The safer supply debacle is but one example.
In part 2, we're going to look at another slithery decline:
Slippery Slope #2: The Trans Slope
Before I get into this, I already know certain people will insist that I’m obviously a raging transphobe simply for suggesting that anything trans could even remotely be associated with any sort of slope, slippery or otherwise. I suppose that if I spent as much time worrying about what other people think as what I’m encouraged to, I’d probably be afraid to ever open my mouth to speak about anything. This, I’m convinced is the goal of such assertions, and so I continue.
Here’s a rough timeline of the evolution of the trans movement in this country (and I presume, other western nations as well):
At first it was all rainbows and smiley faces:
🌈Oh, we just want to be recognized and accepted for who we are.🙂
Well, great! I don’t actually think there are too many people that ever really had a problem with that in the first place. The truth is, most people don’t really give a shit either way. Most of us thought it was kind of weird, but harmless and cute, so fine, whatever.
Then, in 2016, Dr. Jordan Peterson was taken to task for his refusal to use pronouns such as the singular ‘they’ or 'ze' and 'zir' for transgender students, on the basis of his objection to compelled speech.
“These laws are the first laws that I’ve seen that require people under the threat of legal punishment to employ certain words, to speak a certain way, instead of merely limiting what they’re allowed to say,” Peterson said.
This set off a cultural firestorm that rages to this day.
Shortly afterwards, we had this chain of demands from the trans community:
You must use the pronouns I have ordered you to use! Then,
Let me into your bathroom or you're a bigot! Followed by,
I will compete against women at the professional level because it's my right! And finally,
I know I raped a woman, but I'm actually a woman too now so if you're going to put me in prison for that, it really should be a women's prison.
Is any of this even remotely reasonable or sustainable? In all these assertions of rights, it's shocking how completely tone deaf it is to the real women who fought for decades to achieve the rights they currently hold.
Trust me when I say that we’re nowhere near the end of this if we don’t put a stop to it now.
I keep hearing that the problem is with the left, as if there's a political bent that breeds this kind of nonsense. But really, painting this as a left vs right issue is lazy and a cop-out. This has very little to do with left or right, although the right does tend to be more vocal about it simply because it fits nicely into their already established worldview. In other words, it's easy for them. There are many on the left as well who are just as much against it but many of them just keep their mouths shut to avoid “breaking ranks”. Many of those on the left who actually do say something about it are labeled “far-right” by other lefties simply because it's inconceivable (to them) that anyone whom they consider to be on their team would dare to disagree with their gender doctrine.
Rather than a left/right issue, I see this much more as a libertarian/authoritarian issue. Yes, libertarians exist on the left and the right, and everywhere in between, as do authoritarians.
It seems that every year this situation devolves further from reality and just when you think it can't possibly get any more bizarre, up pops a headline like this:
This story is just so far beyond the bounds of what used to be considered reality that you might be forgiven for thinking it was a previously unpublished Stephen King novel or something. Well, maybe not King, because as far as I’m aware, no one was actually killed in this story.
The main character in this story is a dude named Mridul Wadhwa who identifies as a woman and is currently on leave from his position as the CEO of the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The reason Wadhwa is on leave (not actually fired, mind you) is for forcing the resignation of a female councillor for suggesting that most of the women at the centre would probably feel much more comfortable talking to a woman (a real woman, that is) or at the very least would like to know the biological sex of the staff members they were dealing with. According to Wadhwa, women like this are nothing more than transphobic terfs. I'm guessing that would likely apply to most of their clients as well.
A decent rundown of this story can be found here on Quillette:
Gaslighting Scottish Rape Victims in the Name of ‘Trans Inclusion’
Oh, and then there was the little issue of a certain non-binary individual who was allowed into the rape centre to receive counseling. Alright, so that was actually a dude as well - Cameron Downing, a non-binary former Scottish Nationalist Party Equalities officer. Yes, this is the same SNP that was formerly headed by Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. Sturgeon's hasty departure early last year came partly as the result of a national outcry over her gender laws that allowed a “trans woman” named Isla Bryson (read: a man named Adam Graham) who had raped two women to somehow end up in a women's prison. In case you missed it, this was the case that forced the term, “her penis” into the modern vernacular.
Just for context, here is Sturgeon’s reasoning for putting men in women's prisons:
In May, an employment tribunal ruled against Wadhwa and the ERCC in a scathing report for conducting a “heresy hunt” against any employee whose views didn't perfectly align with accepted trans dogma.
For what it's worth, the board of the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre has said it is “saddened by the outcome of the Tribunal,” and that they will now “take time to reflect on the written judgement.”
Maybe what really saddens them is that they were caught, since they're the ones who hired this guy in the first place.
So anyway, Cameron Downing (this non-binary dude) is the other main character in this story. He had previously resigned from his post as Equalities officer (of course he was an “equalities” officer) with the SNP on account of several tweets that came to public attention back in 2022.
Here are the tweets:
Surely this didn't help the cause of the soon to be retired Nicola Sturgeon, since there were numerous pictures of the two of them together floating around the internet. And with Wadhwa as well.
What is it with politicians’ penchant for posing with individuals with exotic pronouns anyway?
In spite of this scandal, Downing was somehow admitted to a women's rape center to receive counseling. Could it be that being fired from a political party is quite traumatizing to non-binary people?
This may have all ended up well and good had it not been for the fact that while this man was receiving counseling (at a rape centre for women) he was also actively sexually abusing other women in his spare time. Last month he was sentenced to six years for multiple counts of sexual assault and blackmail.
I mean, really? How would anyone even make this shit up? Like, I don't know if you've noticed, but this is now our reality. And yes, I realize this took place in Scotland, and BlogOfKen is primarily a Canadian thing, but I would be violently shocked if any member of our current government here would ever get up and denounce any of this. Really, by all appearances, this is precisely where we are headed.
As I said, if you think this sounds utterly ludicrous and completely ridiculous, just wait a few months - we are nowhere near the bottom of this decline if regular people don't make it stop.
And as for the inevitable idiotic comments that I know I'm going to get telling me that this post is simply “rage-farming” it is this very attitude possessed by the people making these kinds of comments that are one of the biggest reasons that we are where we are. We've spent the last ten or fifteen years collectively saying nothing while these trans activists have taken over our language, our schools, women's washrooms, women's sports, and even the Olympics. Why is anyone surprised that they've also infiltrated that most sacred of all women's spaces we have in the western world, namely a centre for women seeking shelter and protection from abusive men?
Are you surprised by any of this? If you are, then either you haven't been paying attention, or you're willfully blind. Either way, that's your own fault. Don't expect this to be big news as far as the established media is concerned, because it's simply not their beat. That doesn't mean it didn't happen and that definitely doesn't mean it's unimportant. By the way, that kind of willful omission by the mainstream media is another big reason this has been allowed to go so off the rails.
So, all that to simply say this: say something. Don't expect that anything is going to improve if you remain silent and don't assume that our leadership will automatically do the right thing, because they won't unless they know we are demanding that they do. Also, stop being afraid of what others will think if you decide to take a stand. It's not all about you - there are way more important things at stake.
Here's the latest chapter in Everything Trans:
Alberta MLA Jennifer Johnson was booted from her UCP caucus in the middle of an election campaign last year for "insensitive" comments regarding gender ideology in the public school curriculum. Even though the Premier turfed her out, she still got almost 70% of the vote and now sits as an independent - because regular people don't care at all about this bull shit. They just want someone who will represent their interests.
Now she's in a viral video where she's basically forced to sit and listen to a bunch of mansplaining by a deranged trans-activist in order to "do the work to rebuild trust and relationships in the LGBT+ community," so that she might be accepted back into the UCP fold.
And apparently she failed at doing this work when she refused to state for the record that "a trans-woman is a woman" 😲(*oh, the horror!*)😲
Even Elon Musk and J. K. Rowling now know where Alberta is on account of this.
You can watch the video here if you really want to:
https://x.com/babybeginner/status/1835951437672800631?t=Y8cRTC7Thyo_fDBXsBtnyw&s=19
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/first-reading-alberta-mla-goes-viral-for-video-in-which-shes-berated-by-trans-activist
What a bizarre case.
Doesn’t this case in particular go against your thesis that we’re on a ‘slippery slope’? I mean, for starters you’ve had to find an obscure news item from Scotland to illustrate your point, but the case you’ve dug up shows that this very incident is apparently being dealt with in a reasonable manner by the authorities in charge. Where’s the slippery slope? No doubt this case never would have even been brought to your attention were it not for the social media feeding trough of rage bait and click farming that informs most of our civil discourse.
Quick follow-up question: why do you insist on referring to Mridul Wadhwa as ‘he’, a ‘dude’ etc. She’s clearly a person who identifies and presents as a woman. Even your boy Jordan P would have no problem referring to such a person using the female pronouns. I ask this question because it seems like a deliberate and provocative choice that sort of undermines your whole premise of being reasonable and open minded on these issues.