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November 25, 2024 - 1:10pm
Britain in the third decade of the 21st century is a very strange place. In Scotland, men can die of cervical cancer, a disease which affects an organ they don’t have. Scottish women may be recorded as expiring from testicular cancer even though they don’t possess — how to put this diplomatically? — the balls.
Up and down the country, “women” are appearing in court charged with rape, an offence that consists of penetration by a penis. Most puzzling of all, official statistics suggest that Muslims in England and Wales are three times more likely to be transgender than the non-religious population. The figures imply that one in every 67 is transgender, revealing a previously undetected surge in interest in gender identity among observant Muslims in Britain.
Is any of this an accurate snapshot of the UK in 2024? Of course not: it’s what happens when institutions tasked to provide accurate data give in to the demands of activists. It distorts the figures governments depend on when they’re making decisions which affect all our lives, such as allocating resources. It inflates the size of the trans population, appearing to bolster activists’ demands for special treatment. And it provides a wholly false impression of who is responsible for violence against women, creating a previously unknown category of the “female rapist”.
The latest example of this dangerous process to come to light affects death records in Scotland. Trans lobbyists have persuaded National Records of Scotland to record the “gender identity” of the recently deceased, rather than sex. The risible outcome is that men with a Gender Recognition Certificate are appearing in official records as female, even if they died of a disease of the male reproductive organs. Even if they don’t have a GRC, they can be recorded on a death certificate as female to avoid upsetting relatives. All we need now is a Radio 4 documentary about the startling rise in “men” suffering from ovarian cancer. Maybe Foreign Secretary David Lammy, who once claimed that trans women can “grow” a cervix, could act as an adviser.
When did this country stop caring about accuracy? When did politicians decide that trustworthy statistics matter less than the sensitive feelings of a small number of people? You might think the Official for National Statistics, at the very least, would be immune to such pressure, but you would be wrong.
After concluding 18 interviews with trans people, the ONS included a question about whether “the gender you identify with” is the same as “your sex registered at birth” in the 2021 census. The results appeared to suggest that the East London borough of Tower Hamlets has the largest trans population in the country, larger even than Brighton and Hove. Dr Michael Biggs of Oxford University pointed out last year, however, that many inhabitants don’t speak English as a first language — and almost certainly misunderstood the question. The ONS has since had to admit, though gritted teeth, that it cannot say whether its estimate of the size of the trans population of the UK is accurate.
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SubscribeWhen left-liberals look approvingly on political and cultural Islam, they must find in themselves a spiritual vacuum left by their own abandoned European heritage.
In gender identity, however, they find the equivalent of all the key mystical tenets of Christianity, such as resurrection from the dead, the Holy Trinity, Virgin Birth, and most of all, transubstantiation in naming the communion wine as the blood of Christ.
It’s the bread broken at “the last supper” with the attributed words “this is my body” which forms the key part of transubstantiation, plus the wine/blood. Mystical indeed, and designed to enthral believers, which is mainly Catholics whilst other Christian denominations regard it as symbolic rather than actual.
The legacy of such beliefs are part of our European heritage: if intelligent and influential people have believed these things for centuries, the gender identity data manipulation is just following on from this mindset.
Lots of questions. One simple answer. This is all due to Gender Ideology.
How can you challenge it? Say and explain what it is.
But that’s not going to happen on Unherd. Gender Ideology is Feminist Ideology. It came out of Feminism. And that can’t be criticised.
So what will happen? More questions but no answers. Ad infinitum.