The idiocy of Stonewall

It was never a radical organisation, but harmless enough for a time. But once merciless, cold bloodied Ruth Hunt took over, it was curtains. It remains so

Just for a laugh, I asked AI to transcribe five minutes of the interview of Ian Anderson by Beth Rigby, Sky News, 22nd July, 2023

In context, Stonewall, in March, 2023 made this statement:

We stand with trans people who now have the door closed on their chance to compete in athletic sports at an international level.

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BR: This is an image we've seen a lot of recent, it's a podium with a trans woman coming first and a biological women coming second and third. Do you think that's fair, Ian?

IA: So, sport by sport, people are looking at this. On elite sport, what you're finding is a sporting body by sporting body is looking at this issue.

BR: Let me put it another way, how would you feel if you were number two and three in that scenario? Do you think that was fair?

IA: Well, I'm absolutely rubbish at sport.

BR: You know what I mean. How do you think this woman, this woman might feel about that?

IA: Yeah, so, I mean, everybody, we're working our way through on this, this is, I mean, this is, I mean, how trans folk take part in elite sport.

BR: But this is a problem, isn't it? Do you see this as a problem?

IA: So, I think it's a problem in terms of the perception of the conversation.

BR: But don't you think it's a problem for these women in that competition? It's a problem for them, right?

IA: The way in which this debate and the way in which science and medicine and the approach to this debate is changing all the time.

BR: But this is a common sense, I mean, I think viewers looking at that would think, is that fair on these other women? Can you see that that's a problem, no?

IA: I want, for me, I want everybody to be able to take part in sport.

BR: Does this not make a mockery of competition in sport if biological women are having to compete against a transgender woman who might have a different physiology to them? Does that not make a mockery of competition? How can they compete?

IA: There's a whole bunch of things that are taking place, right?

BR: But do you get it? It's just a really basic question.

IA: I understand the question you're asking, I understand.

BR: But you can see that it’s hard for those women, I mean, how are they going to compete?

IA: But we want all, I think we want everybody to be able to play their full part in society. We absolutely do.