John Wall: The Supreme Court’s judgement on biological sex was badly needed after a such a dystopian debate

John Wall is a retired engineer and former Conservative county councillor in Hampshire.

The Supreme Court confirming what almost everyone knew, “woman” and “sex” are biological, wasn’t followed by ferrets reversing but by screeching handbrake turns.

This might be funny if it wasn’t for the innumerable, overwhelmingly female, innocents who’ve lost their jobs, had their lives destroyed or otherwise been cancelled in recent years for saying what the Supreme Court ruled.

Having been vindicated the, primarily female, campaigners know there is still much to do and, due to the inevitable recalcitrance in some areas, this may take some time.

The full story is yet to be written but we can now see how some things converged.

The Equality Act (2010) was hastily passed between the calling of the 2010 election and the dissolution, with more scrutiny it may have been improved. As with US Civil Rights legislation there was mission creep and the update being prepared by Kemi Badenoch was unfortunately lost due to the 2024 election.

Same-sex marriage legislation in 2013 should have marked the end of Stonewall as much of their raison d’etre had gone, but in 2015 they added transgender “rights” to their repertoire.

What had been sought for lesbian, gay and bisexual “rights” was equality (of opportunity), whereas I suggest what the transgender “rights” movement sought was equity, ie equal outcomes.

The former demands they shouldn’t be discriminated against for employment, etc and what consenting adults do in private is their business.

The latter sees “sex” as a social construct, you can be a man or woman simply by identifying as one. You’re a biological male who wants to be a lesbian, declare yourself a woman, start using women’s toilets and join a lesbians’ club. You’re a biological male who wants to be a women’s sporting champion, declare yourself a woman and, as the average man is larger and stronger than the average woman, collect a gold medal.

This is a zero-sum game and a charter for perverts, predators and paedophiles, but the trans lobby couldn’t, or wouldn’t, see it.

The LGBTQ lobby – and associated alphabet soup groups – incorrectly suggests they are one “community” and one “struggle”, necessitating the formation of organisations like the LGB Alliance which recognised the threat to homosexuals.

As “sex” is immutable not chosen it’s difficult to see common ground and the trans lobby will have to accept that.

We can argue what gender ideology’s “Mr Bates vs The Post Office” moment was, but a biological male towering over the women he’d unfairly robbed of a gold swimming medal or a multiple rapist with everything intact in a women’s prison are strong contenders.

The Left prioritises the collective over the individual, the desire to be on “the right side of history” creates useful idiots and then there are those, unthinkingly adopting the Nuremberg Defence, with bills to pay and mouths to feed. Some don’t know what they’re actually supporting, it’s just  “social justice”.

This isn’t new, the investigative journalist David Collier documented how the influx of Corbynistas into Labour radicalised some from concern about Israel/Palestine to hardcore antisemitism.

Lefties love a sob-story and a good way to get support is to claim to be marginalised or victimised.

Prof. Eric Kaufmann’s definition of “woke” as the “sacralisation of historically disadvantaged race, gender and sexual identity groups” encompasses this, but it can be a trap for the unwary as the attempts in the late 1970s by the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), through the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL), to lower the age of consent shows. They haven’t gone away, they’re now Minor Attracted Persons (MAPs).

Stonewall’s business model is to charge a large number of organisations a relatively small amount to join things like Diversity Champions. This builds resilience as the costs are under the radar when spending is scrutinised and means they can afford to lose a few clients.

Trading on “be kind” clients are encouraged to earn Brownie points by adopting Stonewall Law, which the 2021 Reindorf Review at the University of Essex concluded ”states the law as Stonewall would prefer it to be, rather than the law as it is”.

Too much of what lefties believe is analogous to a cult or proselytising religion, exemplified by Stonewall’s “no debate” policy. Nobody hates like the Left, their opponents aren’t wrong or misguided but evil, and the gender critical are blasphemers or heretics who should be treated accordingly.

All these came together to create a toxic environment where witch-hunts flourished.

There was plenty to set off the alarms and For Women Scotland, the appellant to the Supreme Court, was formed in 2018.

Although predominantly supported by the Left, Conservatives were not immune, and Janice Turner kept the receipts:

“..the fools, the Tory women fleeing the ‘nasty party’ taint. Caroline Nokes, who voted against samesex marriage; Theresa May, who abstained; and the expenses scandal pariah Maria Miller, who saw in uncritical, unthinking support for Stonewall’s self-ID plan in the hope of easy applause.”

The Westminster government had been heading towards Self-ID since 2017 until, the subsequently much-maligned, Liz Truss stopped it in 2020. The Cass Review was also commissioned in 2020 and Kemi Badenoch was always a bastion of common sense.

North of the border Sturgeon’s intransigence contributed to her demise and the SNP dropping in the polls. Oh dear, how sad, never mind!

There should be an inquiry into how so many organisations, private and public, uncritically adopted this pseudoscientific ideology, but as the finger would most probably point in the same direction as an inquiry into the rape/grooming gangs it won’t happen under this government.