A day for us
Today's moving display by the police for people like me
Today, the police upheld their commitment to my rights with a moving display of flags. Of course, they’re not just my rights, they’re the rights of all men who claim a trans identity, and many of those trans-identified males (or ‘Tims’, as we like to be known) were movingly represented at the ceremony today.
To the accompaniment of ‘Born This Way’ by Lady Gaga, movingly performed by The Smiths (or, as he’s also known, Sam Smith) each flag was carried to the front of the display by a PR person representing Alok Vaid-Menon, and unfurled with the gravity only the United Kingdom’s proud bobbies could muster.
First up was a flag representing our first female Labour leader (we hope!!!), Eddie Izzard.
Then, a tribute to Miss Canada herself, Jessica Yaniv, which also featured a surprise appearance by everyone’s favourite inclusive police mascot, and symbol of Stonewall’s enduring hold over the organisation, PC McBumbletrust!
And who’s this? It’s me! In girl mode! Now I know how fellow TiM Aoife Martin felt on International Women’s Day! (Seriously, a real honour to be included).
Next up, the police stood united against kink-shaming. Much respect to Neville Southall for sticking to his guns and continuing to support these harmless perverts who enjoy harmlessly dressing like very young female children.
All in all, a wonderful day for the police, and a wonderful day for men who enjoy wearing make-up and ordering women about.
(Thanks to the brilliant, tireless, and long-suffering Moley for his work on this)
Didn’t think that Graham’s tilt head portrait could get funnier till I saw it on this flag.
I’m probably the last person here to come to this conclusion but it’s dawning on me recently that this strategy of posing as a TIM/NB whatever, HER being a good example, apart from the hilarity, and the fact that it’s raising the profile of the problem in the press (at Graham’s expense sadly), but apart from that it illustrates a good point. It’s not actually possible to prove Graham wrong is it? To prove he’s not a TiM. As in, any one of us identifying as the opposite sex is not falsifiable, is it?? Or verifiable. So whether the onus is on the individual to prove they are ‘trans’/nb/the last of the unicorn tribe, or the onus is on everyone else to prove them wrong - either way it’s impossible to do.
As I say I’m probably late to the party on this but the possibilities this brings are just dawning on me. This seems a really interesting disruption strategy. If men were to flood HER and similar sites with this kind of tactic it would really make the point loud and clear and help to bring this problem to a head. Albeit annoying for ACTUAL lesbians just trying to get on with their lives.
Same theory with women’s sports. I think what will bring the US situation to a head is if either all women unite, sit down on track and refuse to compete against males. Or some serious/pro male athletes flood the women’s category temporarily to prove a point.
A) It brings the ludicrousness of the whole thing home to the wider general public, but also, B) as James Lindsay talks about it just throws sand in the gears of the movement, and C) discourages companies/apps like HER from promoting ‘diversity’ and going down this road because who’s going to sign up to a dating app full of men posing as TiMs, never mind actual TiMs?! Ok rant over.
This is too funny! Brilliant Graham 🤣