Veteran journalist David Ellis hosted an interesting program yesterday where the focus was on the small business sector. A link to the program is available on Starcom’s website available for anyone who missed the program. Dr. Lynette Holder, head of the Small Business Association (SMA) was his guest
During the many constructive exchanges between Holder and Ellis there was that moment Holder shared the interesting revelation she agreed with some of President Donald Trump proposed policies. She identified his executive order proclaiming two biological sexes, male and female as one, as one. Included in the order was the discontinuation of DEI programs by government.
Across the country, ideologues who deny the biological reality of sex have increasingly used legal and other socially coercive means to permit men to self-identify as women and gain access to intimate single-sex spaces and activities designed for women, from women’s domestic abuse shelters to women’s workplace showers. This is wrong. Efforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex fundamentally attack women by depriving them of their dignity, safety, and well-being. The erasure of sex in language and policy has a corrosive impact not just on women but on the validity of the entire American system. Basing Federal policy on truth is critical to scientific inquiry, public safety, morale, and trust in government itself – snippet from Trump’s Executive Order
The exchange piqued the interest because there was the opportunity to ask Holder a follow up question. Doesn’t it logically follow that if there is a biological reality there are only two sexes, male and female – is it also fair to conclude that hetreosexual behaviour should be the normal? The blogmaster is aware of the emergence of ‘intersex variations‘ which has gained currency in recent years to complicate the business of mankind.
Barbados understandably has been swept along by a global momentum fuelled by the DEI and LGBTQ movement. The blogmaster has no objection to laws that were repealed locally in 2022 to decriminalised same sex activity for obvious reasons. However there is a question to be answered whether the policies of government align with public concerns on the matter of the best approach to fomenting our national sexuality.
Without being controversial there is the suggestion from BU that Prime Minister Mottley is the ideal person lead a conversation on national sexuality. It is no secret Mottley’s sexual preference has been whispered about in nooks and crannies for years in Barbados. Although there is the view that leaders of a country have no obligation to share sexual preferences, there is the view that here is the opportunity for Mottley to lead on this issue. We recall at the time when the late prime minister David Thompson was ill there was a conversation about whether his health status should be shared with the public. Is it unreasonable if we want to nurture a wholesome society that all players in civil society actors should shed the cloak of hypocrisy?
Of course this is wishful thinking because the conservative nature of Barbados society would no doubt have a negative impact on her political career. Also with the return of Trump to the White House an aggressive LGBTQ and DEI local agenda will doom Barbados to a global wilderness.
A small nation that dares to walk alone may stumble, but will never be lost someone said.
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