Why everyone must sign up against this war on mothers

MUM, mother, mum my. I am proud to call myself all these things. In common with countless women throughout the ages, being am other is a fundamental, undeniable and indelible part of my identity as a woman.

But the powerful and hugely influential gay rights organisation Stonewall thinks such a fundamental belief is wrong. Not only wrong, but also discriminatory and very possibly wicked.

It asserts I must not call myself mother, nor be called one. Instead, I must re-educate my brain to think of myself as ‘a parent who has given birth’. Not to do so is an affront to trans people, an attack on their right to gender selfidentification.

And we can’ t have that. No, far better to cancel a vast swathe of the population – that is to say mothers – so a small number of biological males who wish to define themselves as female (not something, by the way, that I have any issue with), can feel better about themselves.

IT IS a total mystery why Cornwall has been chosen as the G7 venue. My farming relatives down there have little time for townies – and are pretty nifty with a pitchfork.

THINK I’m exaggerating? If only I were. Previously, the Welsh government deleted the term ‘mother’ from its maternity policy. Following Joe Biden’s election as US President, the word ‘mother’ was removed from the rules of the House of Representatives, along with other overtly ‘gendered’ terminology.

Meanwhile, ‘breast-feeding’ has become ‘chestfeeding’, it’s not ‘mother’s milk’ but ‘ chest- milk’ and maternity departments don’t call themselves such because motherhood is deemed an out-dated social construct. And where the existence of biological sex is, to some such as Stonewall’s CEO Nancy Kelley, the equivalent of antisemitism. That’s right: if you think that, as a woman, you have the exclusive right to be referred to as one, you are on a par with one of the greatest war criminals the world has ever seen. There is, of course, an undeniable irony in the notion of an organisation which fought so hard for so long against the persecution of one group of people – gay men – now participating in t he hounding of another: women. No doubt that is why some of its more prominent supporters have voiced serious concerns about the direction it’s going. But the awful truth is, when it comes to Stonewall’s mission to eradicate biological sex, much of the damage is already done. Over the past few years, it has slowly but surely infiltrated countless government organisations, pushing its agenda and rewiring society from within. Thanks to Stonewall’s ‘diversity champions scheme’, which 250 government agencies subscribe to and which pulls in millions each year for the organisation, there is a generation of young civil servants and policy- makers who believe this stuff. The Home Office, MI6, the Department

I AM convinced there’s a link between the spike in gang violence and the fact that thousands of GCSE students have just ended their school year. They are the reckless, high-on-energy-andlow-in-sense age group most vulnerable to the lure of drugs and gangs. It’s going to be a very long summer.

for International Trade and the House of Commons are all in the top 100 on Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index, meaning they’re signed up to an agenda which not only openly denies women their fundamental biological identity but also persecutes them if they dare to push back.

These include Baroness Falkner, the new chairwoman of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, who has angered activists by saying women should have the right to question transgender identity without being abused, stigmatised or put at risk of losing their jobs.

They include Liz Truss, Women and Equalities Minister, currently urging all government departments and public bodies to withdraw from Stonewall’s scheme.

Both women have faced a barrage of abuse for daring to question the Stonewall ethos.

Vitally, this is not just an argument about semantics. It is the single most important battle feminism has faced since the hunger-striking Suffragettes had feeding tubes shoved down their throats.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, people of all genders and none, you have left us with no choice. This is war.