Why Do Trans Rights Attract Corrupt Politicians?
The SNP's financial woes are not unrelated to its trans obsession. Across the world corrupt left wing parties have embraced trans rights to hide their intellectual and moral bankruptcy.
Why have so many left-wing parties fallen for the ridiculous illusion that people can be born in the wrong body? Or that men can suddenly become women, or were always women despite …being men?
There may be one clue in the massive Theranos fraud in America. You know the one. Young, idealistic Elizabeth Holmes sets up a company that promises to revolutionise medicine with an invention that could carry out hundreds of blood tests with just one small blood sample. Except the invention didn’t work. Indeed it never really existed. Investors lost $600M before the fraud was finally revealed.
Human beings are very susceptible to intoxicating ideas. If they weren’t, the Pilgrim Fathers’ descendants would still be living in Boston in Lincolnshire not Massachusetts. We’re all descended, to an extent, from incurable optimists who decided to check if the grass really was greener on the other side of the African Savannah.
The Theranos story is told brilliantly by Alex Gibney in his documentary, ‘The Inventor’ where it seems clear Holmes convinced herself she could crack the problem of miniaturisation. When she couldn’t she covered up. Her sincerity though never faltered. Or if it did, she was able to switch it on and bedazzle investors.
Utopianism is one reason left wing parties bought into an idea that sounded as magical as hundreds of blood tests being conducted from a tiny ampoule. The Left, as angry and grumpy as it often seems, is driven to change things. That’s why when the Maltese Labour Party’s new leader Robert Abela was asked why he was bringing in free gender reassignment surgery he said, “I think social reform gives the Labour Party its identity”.
And there lies the problem. If a political party is so desperate to do social reform it will sterilise its citizens, FOC, perhaps it needs to get out of the business of social reform.
If we’re trying to be sympathetic I suppose the problem for the Left is that so many worthwhile reforms are difficult to achieve, costly and take time. Improving health outcomes or educational standards in Scotland would take at least a decade, perhaps two. Improving drug deaths isn’t a simple project that can be reduced to a slogan like Trans Rights are Human Rights. And so trans rights has captured the imagination of a Left bereft of simple, clear goals that retain the touch of magic.
Of course there is another possible explanation. That trans rights appeals to rotten politicians who want to distract attention from their own corruption. For no particular reason let’s discuss Nicola Sturgeon.
When she resigned on the 20th February it was widely assumed it was her trans obsession wot did it. She looked shocked when she was asked basic questions about her flagship policy of Gender Self-ID.
Since then the arrest of her husband, Peter Murrell, the Party’s CEO, and allegations that Sturgeon herself covered up the financial mismanagement of the Party have put a new slant on her resignation. She knew, it’s argued, something big and damaging was coming down the line and didn’t want to be in office when that inevitably occured. But what if it’s not either or? What if alleged dodgy financial behaviour, economic mismanagement and an obsession with trans rights are all of a piece?
Across the world the pioneers of the most extreme version of these rights, in particular Gender Self-ID which allows any man to say he’s a woman with no safeguarding such as a medical diagnosis of dysphoria, have been deeply dysfunctional and highly corrupt parties of the Left.
The first country in the world to introduce Self-ID was Argentina. The move was driven by the then President, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, who is now Vice President and widely considered to be the real power behind the throne. In December, a court in Buenos Aires found her guilty of defrauding the state to the tune of $1Bn and sentenced her to six years in jail. She currently has parliamentary immunity and in the past politicians accused of corruption have been able to spin the appeals process out for decades. Even if she didn’t, she won’t see the inside of a jail sentence. She’s 69 and in Argentina convicts over 70 can choose to finish their sentences….at home. Isn’t it nice of corrupt politicians to introduce such humane laws?
You have to laugh at the way the Guardian managed to find some leftie Argentinian to back Kirchner’s claims of being the victim of a right wing conspiracy.
“She embodied a spirit of redistributive policies … and confrontation with powerful sectors,” a bloviating academic is quoted as saying. Bless.
The truth is Kirchner tanked the economy. The country is close to default and the current inflation rate is a none too sober 104%