Genesis chapter 5 verse 2 (“God created them male and female”) is so yesterday.
How we laughed when Norfolk Constabulary announced that it was going to recognise 37 sexualities and genders, but it is clear now they were barely scratching the surface. The Civil Service has announced that they are identifying over 100 sexualities and genders and counting. Civil servants will be expected to spend up to a third of their time on these bollocks (and women can have bollocks), the recognition of genders will be enforced, gender identities will be celebrated with special days, and God help anyone who ‘misgenders’ a colleague. Is it any wonder thousands of people cannot get a passport? Mind you, getting one is pretty pointless; you can’t drive to a port if your driving licence has expired, and you can’t get one of those either.
If there are already over 100 sexualities and genders then, taking the number of statutory holidays into account and the number of days civil servants spend being trained in diversity and inclusiveness, how exactly are they ever going to get any work done? If they intend to set days aside to celebrate each of these sexualities, then it is hard to imagine them ever being at their desks. They are barely going to have time to fit in their ‘working from home’ days.
The country is on its financial knees, the NHS has not yet picked itself off the canvas from the blow it was dealt during the Covid-19 panic and is now being overwhelmed by people who think they have another joke virus called monkeypox (thanks to the mainstream media hyping it up). And what are our civil servants doing? Clearly not their jobs. Someone somewhere spends their time dreaming up genders and another group of people somewhere nods sagely and agrees to unleash this nonsense on the rest of the workforce. Surely, liberal quantities of the pee are being taken here and someone is having a laugh. How can there possibly be over 100 sexualities and genders and if there are, why does it matter? Moreover, when will it stop?
If this carries on then there are bound to be more genders and sexualities than there are people who meet the requirements. I am sure that this will be no obstacle to our intrepid civil servants. They will down tools, driving licence and passport applications and turn off the phones until they find someone to fill the slot. There will be more rejoicing in Whitehall by the onboarding of a gender fluid, cat-identifying vegan variant than clearing up a backlog of work and sending some members of the public away thinking that they have done a good job.
There is much talk of ‘peak woke’ by the likes of Toby Young and Rod Liddle amongst others as in “have we reached it?” and “can it get any worse?” My response to these is “no” and “yes”, respectively.
