The Gender Of Mountains

It’s increasingly common now for the Scottish news to feature another prison scandal or employment-tribunal judgment highlighting the extent of gender-ideology capture in the country’s public authorities.

But it’s normally quite hard to get an overall picture of just how captured any particular public body really is, so we should offer some thanks to the Cairngorms National Park Authority (CNPA) who’ve helpfully provided us with a comprehensive primer in the form of a briefing for a board update later this week.

Innocent readers might have thought that the people managing a national park would be most concerned about attracting visitors, protecting wildlife, repairing paths and keeping local businesses sustainable, that sort of thing. But that’s not how things work in Scotland any more.

Because the CNPA are about to present the organisation’s 19 board members with an 91-page report and annex detailing all their vital work on… equalities issues.

Y’know, in case Ben Macdui isn’t queer enough.

(No, really. Mountains are queer now and you can shag them.)

And once you’ve all had a moment to digest THAT, let’s get on with the article.

While there’s some commendable work mentioned here and there, the update puts an inexplicable emphasis on the Cairngorms National Park Authority stridently promoting and celebrating the – let’s put it mildly – contested ideology of gender identity.

It may possibly be relevant that until Humza Yousaf ended the Bute House Agreement, Lorna Slater MSP was the government minister in charge of Scottish national parks (a job created for her which has never been held by anyone before or since). And where Lorna Slater has been, you’ll generally find a Gender Diversity Policy.

The update annex refers to just such a (separate, 16-page) document, in which we find this trainwreck of grammatical and ideological gibberish:

“Intersex” conditions, more properly known as Disorders (sometimes sanitised to “Differences”) of Sexual Development (DSDs), have nothing whatsoever to do with “cultural stereotypes”. They are defined, testable medical conditions which afflict either male people or female people.

(Also, wait – is there another kind of “anatomy” other than “biological”?)

Board members can also expect to be enlightened on not only the existence of “non-binary individuals”, but also some of the many specific flavours.

Readers may understandably be confused at this point as to both how many sexes and how many genders the Cairngorms National Park Authority thinks there are. (Or indeed why it has an opinion on the subject at all.)

Is it just two – the definition of “bi-gender” says “both genders”? Or is it three, as per the definition of “Third gender”? Or is it perhaps some other unspecified larger number, as implied by “Pangender”? And however many there are, are they all defined as either “masculine” or “feminine”, as one might reasonably assume from the definition of “Gender Fluid”, which would again suggest there are only really two?

(The concept of an “Assigned gender” – expressly differentiated from “Assigned sex” in the document – is actually a brand-new one on us, and Wings considers itself a site that pays an unusually high amount of attention in this field. Is someone going around maternity wards now designating newborn babies as “Neutrois” or “Poly-gender”? And if they are, can someone please stop them?)

The ostensible purpose of all this is to ensure compliance with the Equality Act 2010, but the EA2010 makes no reference at all to either “non-binary” identities or intersex conditions, let alone arcane subdivisions thereof.

And nor does the Gender Recognition Act 2004.

It perhaps won’t surprise followers of Peggie vs NHS Fife, however, to learn that the CNPA is non-compliant with the 1992 workplace regulations on single-sex toilets.

And if you were seeking employment with the CNPA and thought that at least YOUR beliefs were also protected under the EA2010 after Forstater vs CGD Europe? Not in the Cairngorms, madam. You WILL use people’s preferred pronouns, or you WILL be subject to disciplinary proceedings for bullying and harassment.

Displaying your solidarity with the opposing beliefs, however, is of course encouraged.

Indeed, the CNPA has a whole 16-member Equality Advisory Panel to assist it in figuring out what equality is, including trans-identifying runner Micah Daigeaun (who “in their spare time enjoys reading about the Cairngorms and other mountains”), Stuart Hall (who worked at “St Andrews respectfully” and is NOT the paedophile one), a vegan dessert chef, an art therapist, both someone who HAS a “Canine Partner” (not what it sounds like) and someone who volunteers FOR Canine Partners (but presumably isn’t a dog, although we don’t seek to presume how they identify), and our favourite member, the splendidly-named Vanessa Kind.

Readers will doubtless be relieved to hear that the EAP helped ensure that the CNPA’s consultations on equality issues drew the vital distinction between boring old common-or-garden bisexuals and people who consider themselves “bi, pan or polysexual”, which will be great news for Hamish MacPhee, the only gender-fluid polysexual in the Cairngorms area.

The annex document naturally bemoans the fact that, like Hamish, 98.5% of people actually living in the Cairngorms are white, and that it’s accordingly had to seek its diversity outside the Authority’s borders. Some of the list of professional grifters experts the organisation has sought out for assistance with this goal will trigger red flashing lights and klaxons with Wings readers.

Oh, look who it is. Imagine meeting you here.

And the Gender Diversity Policy directs anyone seeking further information and support on these controversial issues to exclusively trans-focused organisations.

The consultations (conducted via the famously rigorous SurveyMonkey) nevertheless reveal some remarkable demographic anomalies, such as 7% of respondents identifying themselves as Gaelic speakers (roughly six times the proportion in the Scottish population as a whole, even though the park is not located in the heartlands of Gaelic in the north-west of the country), and 3% as transgender (seven times the general population percentage, by the highest possible figure, or around 20 times by a more robust count).

By now, readers may be wondering how what is essentially a tourist board came to be so obsessed with people’s gender and sexuality.

Oh. Another mystery solved.

Brenna Jessie’s LinkedIn page lists the CNPA as her only employer.

But alert Wings readers may remember the name.

Because Brenna Jessie used to be the Press and Campaigns Officer for the trans-obsessed Rape Crisis Scotland, and was at the forefront of its dogged (and still ongoing) campaign to cast unwarranted suspicion on the acquittal of Alex Salmond over false allegations of sexual assault.

(We can see why she’d want that deleted from her employment history, as it was in that role that she identified one of the complainers in the Salmond case to the entire Scottish media.)

Scotland, readers, is a small country, and once a person gets themselves onto its quango gravy train it’s very rare for them to be ever thrown out of it. At worst, they’ll get bumped off into a backwater somewhere, where they’ll continue to wreak untold havoc away from the public eye, until you can’t even get away from it by climbing a mountain.

What that means is that even with the Scottish Government trying to quietly shuffle away from the worst excesses of gender ideology, the cult has infected the nation at its roots and branches and it’ll likely take decades to shake it off. Until then, if you’re a straight white person, and especially if you’re a male who doesn’t think he’s female, you should probably just stay indoors.