6 June 2016
Ted McMeekin belonged to a government that last month
declared gender identity was a matter of subjective opinion and was not
based upon biological reality. The rationale for why transgenderism is okay. He is resigning from cabinet, he says, to
make room for gender equality in the next make-over of Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberal government of Ontario.
What gender equality in cabinet could possibly mean - given
the official government position that gender identity is a subjective psychological
construct - is unclear.
Ted McMeekin says that he has “never been afraid to call
myself a feminist.” Again, what 'being a feminist' means to him, given that the
female gender is a subjective psychological construct and not based upon
biological facts, is anyone’s guess.
However, if he does ardently consider himself a feminist,
then perhaps Premier Wynne will recall him to cabinet to balance out all those
of a male-ist psychological construct in her cabinet.
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In his resignation statement, Ted McMeekin said that he was resigning to make room for..... One detects a bit of patronizing sexism here. McMeekin seems to imply that the young woman named to replace him would not have had the merit to replace him had he not withdrawn his superb male self. It's hard these days to take the sexism out of men above a certain age, no matter how good their avuncular intentions are. Of course, he could just be an old guy looking to retire and wants to save himself the embarrassment of being dropped outright from cabinet in the next shuffle.
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