Yes, ALL men!
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Since the Supreme Court ruling in April, which clarified the law on the definition of ‘woman’ (as well as scientific and biological reality), I have been promising myself that I will leave trans idiocy behind as far as possible, and focus more on the very issue that led me to first speak out against it, back in 2003: men’s violence towards women and girls.
For me, the primary reason to push back against the notion that a person can change sex, is the fact that predatory, abusive men have been doing this for some time in order to invade women’s spaces. My concerns broadened out as transgender ideology and the transactivist movement went bonkers, into the fact that young lesbians were having double mastectomies and claiming to be trans men; children were being put on puberty blockers; the census was collecting inaccurate data; and much of the media was reporting women as sex offenders, when in fact they were masquerading men. These are all serious concerns of mine, but as I say, my primary one throughout the 22 years I’ve been involved in this battle has been the safety and protection of females.
How interesting then to see such pushback against a piece I wrote, published in the Telegraph on the 3rd of December. It was pegged on the terrible case of Vincent Chan, a male nursery worker who this week pleaded guilty to 26 charges relating to sexual assault offences against children, as well as the taking and making of pornographic images, five counts of sexual assault of a child by penetration, and possession of images depicting the most extreme and severe abuse of children. Chan is one in a long line of men who have worked directly with young children and been found guilty of sexual abuse against them. Only last year, Thomas Waller was convicted for raping and sexually abusing children as young as three at a nursery. There are many, many more.
The premise of my argument in that piece is that men should not be allowed to work in nurseries.
The arguments used by trans activists sounds as if they have got no idea that they were ever female-only spaces in the first place. “Collective punishment is always wrong,” “We don’t blame entire groups for the crimes of a minority,” “You are framing all trans women as sexual predators”.
Sound familiar? These are the arguments made by those objecting to my Telegraph piece.
Of course it’s a liberal argument to suggest that having men in nurseries is a good thing because they can be caring, it’s anti-sexist practice, and an all-round feel good thing to do. The majority of women I have spoken to over the years about leaving their very small children in nurseries with men have said that they wouldn’t ever risk it. And yet…a press release from the Department of Education earlier this year entitled “More male role models in nurseries to help children thrive” argued that “nine in ten parents believe it’s important for children to be cared for by both men and women”.
In 38 priority areas, the government has been offering £1000 payments to new nursery staff. But this is clearly because of the shortage of nursery workers, rather than the fact that only 3% are men.
For decades now, I’ve been accused of being a man hater, and paranoid to think that all men are abusing children and women. These insults no longer bother me, though I do find it puzzling that a lot of people believe this nonsense, when all I am trying to do is ensure that children as well as women are protected from predatory men.
How many more times do I need to say that I do not believe all men are a danger to women and children? AND I am clear that enough of them are a danger to women and children that we should keep them out of spaces like nurseries, as well as hospital wards, prisons, and changing rooms designated for females.
In 2023 the Journal of Early Childhood Research published a paper entitled ‘Men changing nappies: dismantling a key barrier to gender diversifying the early years’.
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