Self-ID and Section 28

Thanks to ⁦@bindelj⁩ for exploding the myth that resistance to radical trans ideology is akin to homophobia in the 1980s. Like Julie I was part of the fight against s.28 & it’s very tedious to be lectured by those who weren’t. https://t.co/TEmcE1DTcj

— Joanna Cherry KC (@joannaccherry) January 22, 2023

Trans zealots keep trying to compare people who reject  self-ID with supporters of Section 28 - an absurd, unpopular policy from the Thatcher era (1988) which claimed to be clamping down on the 'promotion' of homosexuality by local councils. 

But the comparison is bogus - complete baloney.

I know because throughout the 1980s and 1990s I was a full-time trade union official - first with NUPE in London and latterly with Unison where I was the union's Head of Local Government and chief negotiator in Scotland until 1999.

Section 28 was an attack on gay rights - the policy was fiercely resisted by the trade union movement and rightly so.

Whereas self-ID is about men who say they are women trying to invade women's single sex spaces - in sport, changing areas, hospital wards, prisons, women's refuges, rest rooms and so on.

Self-ID is a counter culture movement which has spread rapidly in the age of the internet, as many things do.

In essence, self-ID is an anti-women, anti-science, anti-reason belief system which would - if it could - force non-believers to accept that men can magically declare themselves to be women, just by the power of their imaginations.

Which is why self-ID is baloney in its own right and has nothing in common with Section 28.