Of course a womb charity has appointed a trans woman as CEO.
On the appointment of Steph Richards to run Endometriosis South Coast
“Why do they do this?”
Baroness Fox was genuinely mystified on GB News this week discussing the decision by Endometriosis South Coast to appoint Steph Richards, a trans woman, as CEO. “Why do they do this?” she asked rhetorically. “It seems to me as if women are being trolled.”
They are indeed trolling women (along with the rest of us) and it should not come to us as a mystery. The extinctionist impulse of the New Left is not constrained to the fringes of the environmental movement, described by Elon Musk recently as a “death cult”. Across the New Left in all its manifestations runs a misanthropy that is often concealed behind a thin veneer of “be kind” protection of oppressed minorities.
Take Black Lives Matter. In the wake of the global hysteria following the death of George Floyd in 2020, many companies and institutions came out in support of BLM, appearing as it did at the time to be a well-intentioned movement with laudable aims. While a disparate federation of internationally disparate chapters, it soon became evident, however, that BLM – wherever it established itself – had some aims that could not easily be widely supported. One purpose listed on BLM’s UK fundraising page (now deleted) was dismantling - along with capitalism - the traditional nuclear family.
This places BLM firmly in the Marxist tradition that drives the New Left. Marxism, after all, views family as an institution to advance capitalism and maintain its needs. Engels argued that originally we lived in 'promiscuous hordes' and that the family was only created as a capitalist concept to retain wealth and private property. Karl Marx called for the abolition of the family in the Communist Manifesto of 1848.
When Marxism aligns with the “death cult” of the environmentalist movement, the impulse becomes extinctionist. While all of mankind is on the receiving end of the New Left’s misanthropy, certain people are singled out for heightened levels of revulsion: white people, Westerners, Jews and… women.
Why women? Because if women are permitted to continue reproducing, it becomes that much harder to dismantle the family and cancel humanity. This is why we have witnessed, among other recent trends:
- A tennis club removing ‘female’ from its online drop-down menu of membership categories
- Hospitals increasingly using the term 'birthing people' instead of ‘women’ in signs and documents to be more inclusive according to the Daily Mail.
- Pro-life campaigner Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, praying outside an abortion clinic being given a fixed penalty notice by a police officer after being asked if she was “praying silently for unborn children”.
Many more examples speak to the New Left’s tactic of laying the virtue trap that intimidates some from pushing back on their assault on women. Eliminating biological women is done in the name of “inclusivity” with trans people as the oppressed minority. Anyone not supportive of efforts to preserve their “mental health” or “safety” is stigmatised as transphobic. In the case of buffer zones around abortion clinics, the oppressed minority is aborting women who are, according to the Guardian, harassed and intimidated by protestors even with buffer zone legislation in place.
And so to Endometriosis South Coast. Its new CEO Steph Richards, born a man, is a vocal exponent of the New Left’s denial of reproductive biology. Richards advocates puberty blockers for children as a “safe and reversible medical treatment for trans kids” and has tweeted that:
“’men’, ‘women’ and ‘child’ [are] social constructs”
This denial of reproductive biology places Richards in complete alignment with the charity’s founder. “Endometriosis is a systemic inflammatory condition,” said Jodi Hughes on BBC Woman’s Hour on which she appeared alongside Richards. “We need to move away from the gynaecological side of things because you don’t have to be born with a womb to have it.”
It is this transparent lunacy that, I suspect, gives Baroness Fox the sensation of being trolled. For the BBC to give Richards and Hughes a platform in this way – on a programme titled Woman’s Hour – is hugely insulting to women. Is it trolling? In a way, it is and yet it’s worse than that. It is a barely concealed move towards domination, presenting something to us so ridiculous and getting away with it. Our acceptance signals to the New Left that it can push on without resistance.
I think of it as the point in the prison movie where the weedy new inmate is asked to hand over his trainers by the big bloke on his landing. We, the audience, know that this is just the beginning and that bad things will follow. Right now, the New Left is asking us to hand over our trainers – and we’re complying.
Ian Price is a Business Psychologist. Find him on X.