Mick Hartley

More on the weekend's trans protests, from Sarah Ditum in the Times:

By distorting reality to pretend that trans women (males) are oppressed by natal women (females), the trans movement has laundered beliefs and language that in any other context would be instantly tagged as woman-hating. “Suck my dick”, as seen on placards at the weekend, is a progressive slogan so long as you claim to identify as a woman.

In terms of achieving its political objectives, the trans rights movement is one of the greatest failures in the history of campaigning. Not only did its push for GRA reform collapse but its insistence on forcing an extreme interpretation of the Equality Act ultimately led to its defeat in the Supreme Court. And the more the public has been exposed to the reality of the trans movement, the more the public has disapproved.

But I suspect that political objectives were never the point for many adherents. Instead, the attraction of the movement was, precisely, the opportunity for men to tear down those uppity women with the temerity to say “no”. Meanwhile, cowardly women embraced it as a signal that they were not like those nasty hags: if you join in with the hate, maybe it won’t be aimed at you.