WHEN SOMEONE WANTS ALL THAT YOU HAVE (Guest Post by LornCal)

I would like to welcome the very first ever guest post on Grumpy Scottish Man Blog by LornCal. I will be approving the comments but not replying to them for this essay but please do feel free to comment and I am sure LornCal will be able to reply where appropriate.

WHEN SOMEONE WANTS ALL THAT YOU HAVE (Guest Post by LornCal)

SO MUCH human history is littered with the carcases of defeated and/or disappeared peoples, so much of the human backstory is strewn with the bones of peaceful ancestors who never made it, and who became just another dead end, a cul de sac to make way for the aggressive homo sapiens, the survivors of the long, long journey of our species to the present.

By the age of 13/14 or so, I was already a Scottish Nationalist, but I was starting to be aware of the exclusion of my sex from anything that seemed to matter in the wider world, as I viewed it from my own limited experience of that wider world. What I was experiencing was a parallel sense of consciousness of myself as both a female and a working-class Scot who spoke Scots every day, except in the classroom, that each was intrinsic to my sense of myself as a human being, and I was also becoming more aware of how each, in its own way, was secondary always to the ‘primary’ default male sex, on the one hand, and to the ‘primary’ cultural and linguistic norm of being British/English middle-class, both aspects of the not-me as exemplified by ‘The Four Marys’ in ‘Bunty’ comic. It was a gradual dawning, but always parallel for me.

When I look back on that time, and see the road already travelled and the fact that females are fighting yet again –our rights do appear to be a cyclical kind of achievement based entirely on the prevailing conditions for males, as THEY perceive them (and that is an important caveat) in any given time period – for basic recognition of their right to exist as equal but biologically different human beings from males, and Scotland, teetering on the brink of independence but having stepped back (or been actively pulled back by those who are meant to represent us on this issue) I see the parallels again, I see the same pressures being brought to bear to derail both females and Scots from achieving autonomy. I also see parallels that some would prefer not to see, or deny exist.

Some men reading this will harrumph and say that sexual politics is a distraction and far less important than the Scottish politics of independence, but they are wrong, I believe. Autonomy is never divisible. If you have rights and resources and someone wants to take them from you, there is no difference in the impact this has on you as a human being, whether as a Scot or as a female. Wise feminists never ever expected to don a male skin and claim that they were male in every way, when they fought for their rights: as half the human race, they expected parity for their own benefit, and especially to the benefit of their children, not to wrest men’s half of that parity from their fingers.

We have never experienced a time since human/civil rights were established in the UK when one group in society demanded that another group give up all of theirs in order to accommodate them. It has never happened before. That is why the trans issue is nothing like the gay issue, and it certainly has nothing whatsoever in common with the female fights of the past to gain even small advances: the trans lobby wants to move seamlessly into all female rights without a by-your-leave. That is colonialism in the raw.

The Union did not take everything from the Scots on union, and the Treaty of Union’s Articles laid out and still lays out, the rights that Scots have, if we would but have the backbone to exercise them. That is the crucial point: we simply acquiesce; we nod our wee heids like nodding doggies instead of screaming blue murder when Westminster transgresses and trespasses. Biological men, however, are demanding all female rights because that must be the logical conclusion of stating, in law that a “trans woman is a woman” and a “trans man is a man”: that all rights are up for grabs, but, because the female to male transition (FtM) shows no real sign of being obstructive to men’s continued hegemony, for very obvious biological reasons, only the MtF part of the trans equation will prove to be extremely contentious.

So with Scots’ rights and autonomy: there can be no other definition of the Internal Market legislation than that Scotland will have to be shorn of her devolved powers to the extent that they clash with Westminster’s writ. Eventually, that must come down to being all of them. The Tory One State Britishness calls. There can be no other end result than the total elimination of women as a sex class and it is utterly mendacious and irrational to state otherwise, and that, in itself, has implications and ramifications that go well beyond affording anyone his or her human and civil rights.

Just as a handful of corrupt and venal politicians and lairdies handed away the rights and autonomy of all Scots without ever once consulting them, it is biological men and their collaborator handmaids who are trying to steal women’s rights without the permission or consent of half the population in favour of what the trans lobby maintains is a tiny minority, but which, like migration into Scotland from the south will inevitably gain momentum and skew the figures in any future referendum.

We are not talking here about preventing men or women from wearing what they like, living as they please, being respected for their choices, from having the same rights as the rest of us, because they have those already: we are talking about men telling women (who, by dint of their sex, have not, as a sex class, fared particularly well at the hands of men) that they are women, too, and, as such, are entitled to biological women’s sex-based rights – rights that they never fought for, but which they wish to colonize, just as, at its most basic, Scotland has been colonized by the English-as-British cultural and political juggernaut from Westminster, enabled by the parvenu, sanctimonious virtue-signallers of the SNP/Greens who are proving a whole new scientific theory – rather like gender identity theory – that some people can function without a brain in their cranial cavity. The two situations are directly parallel. Anyone, male or female, who does not see the parallels between that which is happening to Scotland and that which is happening to women at one and the same time, does not deserve female support for independence because both Scotland and women are being shafted roundly by fraudsters and the brainless who support the fraudsters.

Why does Westminster want to keep hold of Scotland? Why do biological men want access to female spaces and rights? Why does Westminster want to change our maritime boundaries? Why do men, over 85% of who retain their male sexual organs, want to destroy females’, and children’s boundaries? Why does Westminster want to keep nuclear weapons in Scotland, well away from London and the Home Counties? Why do men who claim to be gender dysphoric, but who are actually sexually driven autogynephiles (AGP paraphilics/fetishists) shelter under the trans umbrella in order to gain access to female spaces and rights for purely sexual motives? Trans means ‘transition’ or it means nothing. The most blatant lies are being told.

What are the dangers to Scotland’s largest conurbation in the event of a nuclear accident, let alone a strike, and what would be the area of the fall-out? How many would survive long-term? If all males are able to enter female spaces and rights, is it impossible that males who are predators will take the opportunity to do so under the shelter of self-ID? Even if they don’t, what is the rationale for forcing females to confront all kinds of male paraphilia and fetish in their sex-based spaces, paraphilia and fetish, moreover, that the law prohibits in normal circumstances, in public? These questions need to be asked and answered without the wailing and gnashing of teeth: you are soooooo… trans phobic…. we are not AGPs. Fine, so let’s open up the debate. We can say that the Earth is flat, and believe it, but we have no right to enforce others to believe what is a provable unscientific nonsense, or to change the language to accommodate our delusions and narcissism. If there is no problem, let the trans lobby PROVE that there is no problem.

Is the undermining of Scots Law itself (around the constitution) and the undermining of sexual offences laws (within the wider body of Scots Criminal Law) being used to achieve similar goals: the destruction of all devolution boundaries to an all-encompassing ‘Britishness’ (Englishness, in reality, as it must be, given the numerical, and, therefore political, superiority); and the destruction of all boundaries against males enforcing their sexual motivations on females of all ages, and, of course, very young children of both sexes? It is the breaching of boundaries, not the fact that men claim to be women, that is the underlying and essential problem because of the history between males and females. If all males treated all females with respect and dignity at all times, there would be no problem, but they don’t and never have, hence the sexual offences laws and the single-sex spaces and rights.

The ultimate aim of ‘Britishness’ must, logically, be to eliminate ‘Scottishness’ as distinct from ‘Britishness’ or ‘Englishness’, which, de facto, are one and the same thing as no other nationality within the UK is able, numerically, to effect any real change on anything that purports to be ’British’. In Tory circles, ‘Britishness’ (really ‘Englishness’) is celebrated and pushed as the norm, and either ‘Scottishness’ conforms, or it is considered to be dissenting, regardless of how Scots actually view that imposition upon them. If that is not colonialism, it is only a whisker away from it, because it does not allow for a distinct ‘Scottishness’ to exist free from ‘Britishness’: the two, since Brexit, in particular, cannot sit side and side and co-exist; always, ‘Scottishness’ must give way to ‘Britishness’ (actually Englishness).

So it is the case, too, with women and trans women, where it is impossible, in the same way it is impossible to be both Scottish and British now, unless your ‘Scottishness’ is subservient to your ‘Britishness’, to be both a woman and a trans woman. Biological women must, therefore, be subservient to trans women as every aspect of their sexed existence, sense of self, language and biology is colonized. Even logically, you cannot be in any way ‘trans’ if you are claiming to actually BE a woman because no transition can be involved, ergo, trans women ARE women (TWAW) is both a logical and a biological impossibility, but, crucially, a necessity for the trans delusion to continue, or to exist at all. You may also believe that the Moon is made of cheese: in neither case is that true in reality, according to all known scientific and biological knowledge. It must, therefore, be both a delusion and a fiction, and, soon, if the Scottish government gets its way, a legal fiction that must, by extension, if it is to work, demolish all laws that, in any way whatsoever, conflict with that particular legal fiction: all prohibitive sexual offences laws, all statistical accounts, all data collection, NHS treatment by sex category, single-sex services such as rape crisis centres, etc.

If you cannot, logically or biologically BE a woman by any known measurable method of proof, your claims to access women’s sex-based rights disappear like snaw aff a dyke. So, we see WHY it is essential that men driven by a paraphilia and who want to access female rights (I am not going to call them ‘spaces’ because they actually want ALL our rights, and spaces are just a part of that whole, and, for their wider agenda, a necessary first step) must claim to BE women by gender rather than sex. The other aspect of TWAW that requires a female persona is the essential existence of the ‘trans child’ in order that the ‘trans child’ should grow into a trans woman – the whole “I was born in the wrong body” or “I have a female brain” in a man’s/boy’s body narrative. In order for this to make sense, you would, biologically require two sets of sex markers in one body because, ordinarily, all our cells, body and brain, contain our genetic sex make-up from conception, even in those with sexual development problems.

How do they get round this biological reality? They kick and scream and yell, “Terf!”, “Transphobe!” and shed crocodile tears in order to close the debate down. Shedding light could mean the truth being uncovered for all to see, and the delusion shattered. Transsexuals such as Dr Debbie Hayton, and others, admit that they are gender/body dysphoric MEN and that they may also be autogynephiles or not, but this group are not the ones who want to throw all women’s spaces and rights open to all-comers: those who do are the ones who probably are paraphilics or who cannot ever admit to themselves that they have a problem with their sex, and they are backed by extremely stupid, short-sighted and, often misogynistic and men’s rights/sexual rights activists. In any situation where some men are not floating on the top like cream, no matter how dense or ineffectual they are as individuals, it must be the fault of women. It is the same old trope in a new disguise.

Now, if you are quite happy to live your life as both a Scot and British (English, in reality) you will still have to do mental gymnastics in order to accommodate impositions like Brexit, nuclear weapons, the Supreme Court and its rulings, etc., which your mind knows perfectly well are impositions with lies attaching to them. You can claim that Scotland gets the best of both worlds, but human beings are hard-wired to be truthful to themselves, if to no one else, so those who live as both Scots and Brits must create a delusion in order to sustain their lies to themselves and the outside world. It is called Unionism, and, far from being some superior ideology, it is a brake on all things Scottish, on all societal decencies that Scots want for themselves, but do not have the powers to achieve without independence. Again, you can say that grass is a lovely shade of purple, but you cannot sustain the fiction unless you create the delusion to support it, and the delusion is that we are actually better off as part of the Union when the truth is that it is destroying many Scottish lives – probably not yours, if you are a Unionist; you’ll be relatively comfortable; and the people who are being destroyed don’t matter to you as long as your delusion sustains you, so you will attack the Scottish government on all fronts to justify to yourself that you really believe your own lies and delusion. You may actually have convinced yourself that you believe – at least in your conscious mind. The same is true of TWAW and women: TWAW will happily exist within their own created delusion as long as it is only women’s lives that are being destroyed, biological women being, according to the patriarchy to which the trans lobby adheres like a limpet on a seashore rock, an inferior breed of men, not quite human, an afterthought.

You have to believe in women’s natural inferiority for the patriarchy and your delusion to exist. If anyone believes that trans women (the specific group that demands access to all female rights as opposed to the group that does not so demand), actually envy women in a confirming way, as opposed to fearing and hating them with a total lack of empathy, he or she is also deluded. The fetishists who pretend to lactate, who pretend to menstruate, who simulate giving birth, do not want to BE women in any real world sense; the delusion, the performance is all, and the dress, the hair, the painted nails, the pout are the costume donned by the trans ‘actor’. Real womanhood would terrify these imposters and exploiters; real menstrual blood, real birth pangs. That is not to say that all men are misogynists and woman haters; it is to say that all men benefit from women’s having misogyny and sex-based stereotypes forced upon them, which is a different thing, but which scarcely encourages wholesale male support for complete female autonomy, and actually enables the trans lobby colonization of women’s rights.

Essentially, the autogynephiles and non-autogynephiles, the body dysphoric and non-body dysphoric who demand all female rights for themselves are men’s rights/men’s sexual rights activists in common with many other men who are not trans. They have actually combined the two for this latest assault on women’s rights and it is no coincidence that the trans issue has arisen now (after several decades of easy access to extreme pornography, reinforcing female subjugation and violence against women and the new form of slavery, sex trafficking, and the push-back all over the world against women’s rights) at the same time as Scottish independence is to the fore again. Many of these pseudo woke warriors inhabit the Scottish parliament and government, and are those who have put the brakes on independence in order to concentrate on their agenda which is to put Queer Theory into action. Their agenda is the real reason they joined the successful SNP, not to advance independence. No point in colonizing something that has no access to power or rights that you covet.

Just as Scots are experiencing a time in our history when we have never been so close to the possibility of independence (rather than the actuality of it), so there has never been a time when women were so close to full autonomy (at least in the West). In each case, the aspiration to reach full autonomy is being systematically crushed. It is also ironic and telling that in each case, it has been Scots themselves, and females, who have done so much to scupper the project for full autonomy. They are the handmaids or, worse, the Aunts. The similarities are so profound: that takes cold, calculating unenlightened self-interest in both groups of handmaids/Aunts, and a total lack of empathy for those they are betraying so callously, while spewing out the most sanctimonious, self-righteous, shallow, vacuous garbage imaginable. The Taliban is more honest about its motives.

That anyone actually swallows any of it is indicative of the lack of critical thinking in Scotland (and elsewhere) today. Never have we had so many young people stay on at school, attend college or university while, at the same time, we are witnessing such vacuous lack of critical thinking, essential in the past for any kind of education, and all the nonsense about being force fed education by rote in the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s is a myth, by the way: critical thinking was positively encouraged and is the reason why so many thinkers emerged out of these periods. Places of learning have virtually abandoned critical thinking, now.

The Scots were ‘love-bombed’ in 2014, as women are being told how envious and desperate for their approval TWAW are – as if the Wolf was telling Little Red Riding Hood that, no, he hadn’t polished off Granny for supper and that he always had LRRH’s best interests at heart, that he was wearing Granny’s nightdress, and wrapped in a saltire shawl, because it was such a pretty shade of pink, and she, LRRH was not to worry her bonnie, wee heid about anything because nothing bad was going to happen. Those Scots who saw through the ‘love-bombing’ to the naked self-interest beneath were not fooled, and they knew bad things would happen, as, indeed, they have; just as women know bad things are going to happen if self-ID is pushed through at Holyrood.

It is way past the time for the pushback against this all-but-colonialist shadow Scotland and the GRA Reform, and, ultimately, the GRA itself. Mendacious, utterly self-interested liars are advancing both assaults. If independence-supporting men want women on board for an independent future, they would be well advised to back us and not throw us to the wolves, and if biological women want to retain their rights and those of their daughters and granddaughters, they had better get on board the independence bus now. They are mutually inclusive, and each depends on the other and has always depended on the other. This is a war on two fronts. The SNP foot-draggers and opportunists have always known that. They created it, with a little help from their friends in the south.