In case you missed the Live Show yesterday. My guests this week include Craig Murray, Neale Hanvey MP, and Gareth Wardell, The Grousebeater.
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Loving the videocasts, but what’s happened to the podcast? I used tae listen going to and from work. Is there any chance you could keep both going?
I will get a audio of podcast for you and others later today.
Hi, lads. The foundations of any criminal legal system that attaches justice to its name must be ‘innocent till proved guilty’, jury trial if requested, ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ and anonymity for the alleged victims of sexual assaults/rapes.
Recently, there has been a call to remove anonymity or, at least, to grant it to the accused as well. Slowly, I am coming round to this idea, and I am totally opposed to allowing the anonymous alleged victims to use their anonymity to snipe and fire missiles at a former accused who has been cleared. I am also aware that the criminal justice system does not deal fairly with women, and never has, and that juries – proved through research – are notoriously prejudiced against female alleged victims. Eventually, I think, we are going to have to introduce special sexual offences courts. In the meantime, however, anonymity should never mean using it as a cover to snipe after the case is over and the accused found innocent, and I am very angry that Lady Dorrian did not make any comment on that because it is an abuse of a legal privilege/convention. In normal circumstances, a woman would forego anonymity and bring a civil case against the alleged perpetrator if she is not happy with the outcome or if she feels that justice has not been done.
The ‘jigsaw’ identification is more complicated and almost impossible to avoid for any journalist who wants to report fairly and evenly. Frankly, I am disgusted at the sentence handed down to Craig Murray, having, like Grousebeater, been sure that Lady Dorrian was a very impartial judge, and I believe that she is very misguided in her conclusions that Mr Murray deliberately identified all the women by seeding his blogs with information. Others did far more to identify the women, at least a few of them. For anoraks, this might not have proved too difficult, but I cannot see how the public interest is served by jailing Mr Murray who the vast majority of the population would not have been able to identify them – or, frankly, care.
What I do see are the tentacles of the Stonewall Diversity Champions scheme insinuating itself into every nook and cranny of public life in Scotland, so that the organization has a locus in government, in the law, in the civil service, in local government, in the Crown Office, in Police Scotland, drawing all these separate parts of Scotland’s public life under one Stonewall umbrella. Ostensibly, it’s about diversity and inclusion, but if everyone is inducted into the same basic mindset, it starts to look like the Borg, and assimilation – one mind operating all the diverse parts. The language used by the civil service, for example, is the same as that used by the police, and the language used by the police is the same as that used by the Crown Office, and the language used by the Crown Office is the same as that used by the Scottish Government. There is, of course, bureaucracy, which manufactures its own language, but the similarities are too strong to be ignored. No lobby group, whatever its purpose, should have this kind of access to, and grip upon, our public institutions.
I think that it is less Holy Willie insinuating himself into Scottish Presbyterian life, although he is always there, lurking, as it is a sea-change in women’s willingness to ‘just put up with things’. This has led to accusations of behaviour that is irritating and wearing and annoying, but hardly life-threatening, and I say that as a feminist. The way forward must be education rather than litigation except for the more serious excesses, or women run the risk of not being taken seriously when they do have a case. Special sexual offences courts with specially-trained judges and lawyers and a less adversarial system may go some way to providing balance. In those circumstances, anonymity for the accused could also be negotiated until the point where he is found guilty, or continues, if he is found innocent.
Whatever, I wish Mr Murray well and hope that sense prevails and he is returned to his family soon, his appeal successful.
The impossibility of transwomen being women and transmen being men is supported by medical advances
The Stamford University Be Well site has a section on Sex Differences in Medicine.
“A man can be diagnosed with the same disease as a woman, and yet the course the disease takes in each could prove very different. And a treatment which works for one gender may prove ineffective for the other. Put simply, men and women are wired differently, and thus it is critical to study the impact that sex differences may have on diseases and their treatments.”
“What is the relevance of gender medicine?
Gender medicine recognizes that due to sex differences in pathophysiology, being a woman or being a man significantly influences the course of many diseases. By better understanding that clinical manifestations of prevalent diseases differ in women and men, gender medicine aims at better disease management and treatment of both sexes.
Certain diseases are categorized as “a woman’s disease” or “a man’s disease,” and yet — except for diseases of sex-specific reproductive organs — men get women’s diseases and women get men’s diseases. An example is osteoporosis, which we usually consider a woman’s disease. However, men account for one in three hip fractures — a fact that most people don’t know.
Generally, if you look at conditions that have been designated as ‘what men get,’ you will notice that when a woman gets one of those disorders, she is often much sicker than the average male with the same disorder. And vice versa when a male contracts ‘a woman’s disease,’ such as breast cancer.”
Dr Marianne Legato established The Foundation for Gender Specific Medicine because men and women are different, She gives a list of the facts.
https://gendermed.org/just-the-facts/
If a doctor treats a transwoman as a woman the patient may be harmed.