Mick Hartley

After the recent dismissal of the case against him brought by a trans activist, Graham Linehan feels entitled to have a moan. “It is past time the state stopped pretending that trans activism is anything other than an entitled male sexual rights movement”.

For over a decade now, ever since I first spoke up for women in the face of an aggressive rights grab by trans activists, I’ve been pursued by a small group of men who seemingly use UK police as their private goon squad.

“Stephanie” Hayden, “Lindsay” Watson, and more recently “Sophia” Brooks could not have generated a more enthusiastic police response if they’d been wearing chief superintendent’s uniforms.

When I first began speaking out, Hayden complained to the police about my comments. This led to officers contacting me and, on one occasion, coming to my home. I believe the strain of these encounters with the police significantly contributed to the breakdown of my marriage.

But I’m far from being alone. Women have been suffering at the hands of men like this for longer than I have. Caroline Farrow has been pursued through the courts for years, only for two police investigations into her to be dropped and a libel case against her organisation to be dismissed.

The aim is to provoke a reaction that meets the extraordinarily low threshold the police appear to act on when the complainant is a so-called trans person.

My view is that there’s no such thing as “trans people”. There are transvestites, transsexuals, perverts, and distressed young women suffering from a virulently fashionable new form of anorexia. In other words, men and women in various states of distress and confusion.

But there are also predatory petty criminals and sadistic activists, and it’s these in particular for whom UK police seemingly cannot do enough.

It’s one of the reasons I left the UK. I couldn’t be sure I wouldn’t get a knock at the door at any moment, from a police force that works harder for men dressed as women than it ever has for women themselves.

Set the slow, feeble response to the Rotherham rape gangs against the speed and efficiency the police bring to a complaint from a trans activist. The miracle of modern British policing is that a man only has to put on a dress to be treated, finally, like a woman should be.

What concerns me is how easily institutions can be weaponised. After the Macpherson Report, the police became so terrified of being accused of bigotry that they swallowed, without scrutiny, the version of the law Stonewall was selling them.

It took the recent Supreme Court judgment in For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers to finally dispel the lie. Men are not women, and saying so is not bigotry.

Unfortunately we still await full implementation, as Labour politicians sit on their hands.

It’s long past time the state stopped pretending the trans movement is anything other than a demanding, entitled male sexual rights movement. There can be no progress until that aspect of trans activism is acknowledged. Trans rights activism is uniquely violent, aggressive, dishonest, entitled and sadistic. It isn’t enough that the cases stop. The police need to start policing the men bringing them.

The simplest legislative fix is one the Government already has in front of it. Implement the Supreme Court ruling, without delay. The ruling would return us to a position most people in this country have always taken as obvious. The reason it isn’t being implemented is that our politicians are too frightened, or too confused, to stand up to the truth.

Keir Starmer famously said it was wrong to claim that only women had a cervix. David Lammy seemed to think men could actually grow one. We have a political class so terrified of being called bigots by the millennials in their staff that they’re prepared to look completely ridiculous in public. I fear nothing will change while such useful idiots are in charge.

The upcoming local elections are likely to see huge gains, at Labour’s expense, by the Greens, and possibly the Lib Dems – both of which parties are notably trans-friendly. We may have to wait awhile….