The United
Kingdom Universities and Colleges Union, the largest in Great Britain,
recently released a statement detailing its “position on trans inclusion.” In
it, the UKUCU, which represents 120,000 employees, emphasized its “long
history” of allowing members to “self-identify,”
whether that is being black, disabled, LGBT+ or women.” The document stresses
the union’s effort “to ensure an inclusive approach to gender identities which
is [sic] different to that assigned at birth.” It states: “Looking at different
experiences of what it means to be woman, or black/disabled/LGBT+, is at the
heart of an inter-sectional approach and involves listening and seeking to
establish understanding and solidarity in struggle against oppression and
discrimination.”
It is highly unlikely “your group”
is being discriminated against if it occasions an entire document/manifesto to
be proffered in its defense, even if said group is refusing to acknowledge
scientific reality. Nor are you being “oppressed” or even “marginalized” if you
can get everyone else to dismiss facts and reality in favor of your feelings
and emotions.
The UKUCU (actually the UCU
officially, but I like the sound of “UKUCU” better) made clear that it supports
“a social, rather than a medical, model of gender recognition that will help
challenge repressive gender stereotypes in the workplace and in society.” It’s
statement also proclaimed, “saying or implying that trans women are really men
denies trans women their right to be men.”
There is a right to be a
man? Or to be a woman? My God, that is liberating! I was heretofore
aware of the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but not the
right to pick your own biological sex. Since governments are gradually taking
away our right to life and liberty, and ergo the pursuit of happiness, it’s
nice that someone is granting us the right to pick our gender. And race.
I’m sure that some particularly
woke progressives also support a “social,” rather than biological model of species
recognition, as well. In the struggle against oppression and discrimination, of
course. At times it seems there is an inverse relationship between the
capabilities of science…and human reason.
But, hey, I’m thrilled to know I
have the right to be anyone or anything I like. No more “blinding me with
science.” Race. Gender. Species. All just arbitrary constructs. I think I’ll be
Kim Kardashian-- or maybe a horse. Or perhaps I’ll just be hung like one.
The joys of self-identification!
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