Mhairi Black said that those who made arguments against transgender rights are akin to past generations who argued that ethnic groups are inferior. Photo: S Meddle/ITV/Shutterstock
Gender-critical activists are comparable to white supremacists, deputy leader of the SNP in Westminster said.
Mhairi Black said «bad actors» were responsible and «50 Year Old Karens». debate about transgender rights and suggested that those who disagree aloud with her views on such issues cannot be «decent» people.
In comments that may deepen an already bitter division in Scotland, she said that those who made “intellectual” arguments against transgender empowerment were akin to those of past generations that argued that non-white ethnic groups were inferior.
High-profile campaign organization Women of Scotland said the MP's comments cast doubt on her fitness for the job.
Targeting the «intellectuals»,
speaking at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Ms Black said: » You once had intellectuals who made big claims about race being the key.
“[They argued]: “I think you will find that the statistics show that if you have more bayms [blacks, Asians and ethnic minorities]; crime is on the rise,” or whatever it is. Now we rightly look back at it and say, “You were a racist. You may be an intellectual, but what you said was racist.»
«If you're not educating yourself, then you can't complain when minority people say, 'You're mistreating us,'» and that is exactly what is happening with the trans community.”
She added, “There are definitely bad actors in the game who are radicalizing vulnerable people. They radicalize people who are online too often.
«And they also use this little community as a wedge to cause havoc and divide people among themselves.»
«When you start tracing that money is always connected to fundamental Christian groups in America, Baptist groups, anti-abortion organizations.»
The SNP tried to pass legislation allowing Scots to simply change their legal gender. signing the declaration, only for Westminster to later block the law, saying it could threaten the rights and safety of women and girls.
The Scottish Government has repeatedly denied this, but felt that its arguments were undermined by the Isla Bryson case, a transgender double rapist who was originally sent to a women's prison under a policy that operated on the basis of self-identification.
Isla Bryson, a transgender rapist, was transferred to a men's prison after initially being held in a women's prison. Photo: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire
Later, during an appearance at The Stand Comedy Club, Ms. Black was asked if she believed that someone with a different philosophical view of gender could still be «a perfectly decent person.» ”.
She replied: “If you keep it to yourself, yes,” to the applause of the audience.
“For me, a decent person is someone who tries to make others comfortable and accept them, especially when it is a marginalized, oppressed group.
“It's just human progress. And for me being decent is being part of that progress, not standing in the way of it.”
Ms Black, who was the youngest UK MP in 350 years when she was elected in 2015 at the age of 20 years, announced last month that she was retiring in the next election.
She blamed Westminster's «toxic» culture, in which she claimed to have harmed her mental and physical health.
On her show Fringe, she admitted to being «bruised» by attacks on her on social media, but also said she has to spend her workweek “surrounded by… ——s”.
“Critics are not fundamentalists”
Susan Smith, director of For Women Scotland, said that Ms. Black was «a terrible indictment of her intelligence and ability to act» as a legislator.»
She added: «Her inability to understand why highly vulnerable women in prison, fleeing domestic violence or in hospital care, may not want to share an intimate space with a male, suggests that it is high time for her to get out of her extremely spoiled, gilded bubble.
“Women who disagree with her should not be silenced, like modern-day swearers, and they're not racist.» or religious fundamentalist horror stories.»
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