Catherine Martin is under attack. She was asked at a press conference ‘what is a woman’ and she said the question was not relevant.
She could have said that a woman is a human person who chooses to identify as a woman. Maybe she didn’t think of it. Maybe she doesn’t think that. Maybe she doesn’t know. My view on what a woman is is my view. If anyone asks me I’ll tell them that. It’s a private view. It’s an irrelevant view. I’m not a woman and I don’t choose to identify as one. What other people do within the law and how they choose to identify themselves is none of my business so therefore my view of their choices is irrelevant and I am more than happy for it to remain so. They don’t need to worry about my view because their choices are none of my business.
I voted to repeal the 8th amendment. I have a view on abortion but whatever that view is it is irrelevant. I’m a man and I can’t have an abortion. If my Daughter’s asked my view I’d give it on request but that’s about it. Apart from that what a woman chooses to do with her body, a decision I could never face, is none of my business. Even with my Daughters it would be none of my business. So I voted to repeal the 8th amendment to make it none of my business.
I think we should have a referendum on a law to make whatever other people want to do with their bodies, identify as, or whatever legal choices they want to make in how they live their lives ‘none of anyone’s business’. We could call it the ‘none of our business law’ and pass the ‘none of our business referendum’.
Imagine how peaceful life would be if minding our own business on how other people live their lives was the law. Could the ‘curtain twitchers’ who live on the internet these days cope?