WHAT are we meant to think when many of those we’ve been told are the goodies are revealed as the baddies?
The aftermath of that Supreme Court judgement has underlined how the likes of Nicola Sturgeon led a nation up the garden path with her good-versus-evil gender wars.
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A great deal of the “goodies” in this new reality peddled by officialdom have disgraced themselves following the ruling nearly a fortnight ago which clarified that ‘sex’ in equality law means biological sex.
Amid an outpouring of hatred, there have been death threats against For Women Scotland since the campaign group’s court win.
We saw marches with trans activists holding banners urging the death or burning of “witches” like gender-critical campaigner JK Rowling.
They defaced a statue of suffragette Millicent Fawcett, and we saw a snarling, unhinged display of misogyny and male aggression — albeit from a person in a dress — lapped up by attendees at a demo in Dundee.
Greens MSP Maggie Chapman — who disgraced herself by branding judges as bigots — was seen applauding at the event, although she was standing chatting at the point transgender activist Sophie Molly yelled through a megaphone that Rowling was a “creepy old bi***” who “we should take a s***e on”.
So, what about For Women Scotland and those we were told were the “baddies” by Sturgeon, her stooge ministers and institutions including Police Scotland?
There may have been applause, Champagne, and smiles, but any knife-twisting has been absent — a bit odd, you’d think, given these women were meant to be the “baddies”.
The response was summed up for me by the calm, measured, and respectful manner of FWS’s Susan Smith as she faced a series of awkward questions during a devil’s advocate-style radio interview, where she remained dignified, highly articulate and unflappable.
Smith provided persuasive responses to a series of questions, such as about what trans women will now do if they can’t use services or spaces reserved for biological women?
Trans women have complained they may be at risk, you see. Well, that’s an issue for men to sort out among themselves, Smith said.
Why should women always have to bend over backwards?
On the argument that trans women were “losing rights”, Smith said that was the responsibility of the organisations who misled people on the law, such as Sturgeon and her cronies.
Smith also decried a “febrile environment” created by the Scottish Government and others, who she says re-styled “pro-women” stances as “anti-trans”.
I remember reporting on an episode in 2021 when For Women Scotland stickers were put on lampposts in Fife with their slogan ‘Women Won’t Wheesht’.
Police Scotland sprung into action after this was branded a “hate incident”, and officers told the public to contact them “to arrange their removal”. This was absurd but also chilling — one strand of a new reality which had been forged where society was led to believe it faced a battle between right and wrong.
As time went by, people who knew or cared little about the gender issue had it thrust in their faces and were told to pick a side.
Non-believers — even raped women who wanted female-only refuges — had to be “re-educated”. They could be abused, bullied from jobs, and those in power would shrug.
On the other side, trans activists were portrayed as a misunderstood and marginalised “community” who wouldn’t harm a fly.
They had to be protected, including by a law allowing them self-ID as whatever sex they wanted, given that going through any checks was deemed degrading.
But the more the debate went on, the more people started to tune in, and the more it became clear it was actually a complicated issue.
Biological female-only spaces were indeed being eroded, and legitimate discussion and mobilisation to argue against this was greeted by ugly scenes akin to those we have seen in the past fortnight. Women were assaulted, intimidated, spat at.
SNP politicians were photographed in front of a male holding a placard threatening to “decapitate Terfs”.
Cops didn’t appear to be as interested in this as they were with those stickers, though they did find time to log a “hate incident” by a Tory MSP for making a joke about identifying as a cat.
It is unfortunate for the trans movement that appalling conduct has repeatedly come from prominent figures, including some endorsed by politicians, tacitly or explicitly.
It goes without saying that not all trans people are the same. There was a good interview following the ruling with campaigner Ellie Gomersall who argued persuasively, among other things, that parliament should have led on this issue, and it should not have been left to the courts.
Clarification was needed long ago. Politicians such as Keir Starmer and Anas Sarwar, have been spineless in this debate. The worst offenders, however, have been the likes of Sturgeon.
With her war games, she supercharged this toxic debate, and embedded across society the idea of goodies and baddies.
She did with gender ideology and feminism what she’d done for so long with supporters and opponents of independence.
This fabricated reality has peeled away, underlining how there are goodies and baddies on every side, in every debate.
Ordinary people are now tuned in, and in the past fortnight, the worst of the trans lobby have shown their true colours.
If they continue in this vein, the war may be over sooner than they think.
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