Eccentric Seal

When I moved to Glasgow 12 years ago, I joined two groups which were to have a profound effect on my political outlook. And set me on a course that culminated recently in 6 solid months of stress,  my first intimate experience of a political split and my first proper blooding in the Terf wars.   The first was a very small, trans inclusive feminist group. It was in this group that I coined the ridiculous  phrase "are now or have been a woman" in an attempt to find a form of words which would allow us to  keep a very nice young woman who identified as non binary and kick out two sexist blokes who err… also identified as non binary.  If you know anything about contemporary trans politics you will instantly see that this tack was offensive  to all parties but, hey, my heart was in the right place. I was trying to be inclusive.  The two non binary blokes…..I later talked to a member of the group about them in private. She felt that at least one of them was simply "trolling&qu

Since this post a lot of things happened. Jimmy got properly diagnosed with Autism. We celebrated at a  specific Indonesian Cafe that does plain noodles the exact way he likes them.  Also, there was a pandemic. I kept a diary the whole time. I didn't post it here because everyone was going  through the same thing and I thought it would be boring. I have some kind of plan to cross reference it  against Dominic Cummings' select committee evidence and finally work out what the fuck was going on. Like everyone else, I home schooled the kids. For Kirsty it was a nightmare. For Jimmy it was..... his best life.  We didn't send him back.  So now I have one home educated kid and one kid in school. Its interesting.  The thing about the Gaelic school that I didn't grasp at the time.  Everyone else is tutoring.  The class is moving at the pace of a tutored child. If you knew from the start that you planned to heavily tutor your kid that school would be a rational choice. They won&