Self-ID and Section 28
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.
