The Halifax was criticized yesterday by the Attorney General for its “flippant” advice to clients to go somewhere else if they disagree with its enlightened stance on gender problems.
The banking behemoth mandated last week that employees wear badges with their “preferred pronouns” to avoid “unintentional misgendering” of trans employees.
The bank responded by telling customers they were welcome to close their accounts if they disagreed with its beliefs, which resulted in thousands of complaints.
What is the effect on the elderly Fareham resident who truly depends on that bank to get her money, asked Attorney General Suella Braverman, who is also a member of parliament for that city, yesterday?
I believe Halifax’s viewpoint is flippant, she said, and it ignores the effects on many members of our community in the real world.
She claimed that the Halifax’s woke action was a result of a “collective frenzy” for certain rights that causes the “basics of biology (to be) turned upside down” in an interview with The Sunday Telegraph.
With regard to the Scottish Government’s proposal to permit people to change their legal gender without a medical diagnosis, Mrs. Braverman also foresaw a potential constitutional dispute.
She said: “I can’t see how that is practicable, wherein north of the border you may be able to self-identify, but a bit south of the border that might not be recognized.” She then made a legal threat to stop the move. What impact does that have on our institutions of government?
It is really unsettling and leaves a great deal of ambiguity.
Mrs. Braverman added that schools and other institutions dealing with trans issues were experiencing “a lot of practical problems” as a result of the 2010 Labour Equality Act’s formulation.
We cannot be living in a society where people are afraid to point out the fundamentals of biology for concern that they will lose their jobs, she continued.