Chris

If you could demonstrate where I coupled my discussion of mental ill-health with a perjorative judgment against same, that would be helpful. (To help get you started: the only time the word ‘freak’ has been used on Cable Forum in any context in the last 6 months, was by you, yesterday).

… in the US, where the erosion of women’s rights to include trans-identifying males, and where the invasive medical treatment of children, has gone far further than it has in the UK. In some state and federal instances, laws have already been changed to favour trans activists. The push-back there is necessarily of a different nature than here.

In the UK, the push back against trans dogma has been driven by insistence that public bodies respect the law as it already stands vis a vis acceptance that sex is a protected characteristic under EA 2010, and that changing/toilet facilities segregated by sex are a requirement of the Workplace Reg’s 1992; that universities have a legal obligation to preserve and protect free speech; and by a very thorough literature review of trans medical issues by Dr Hillary Cass. Nothing that is happening here is contingent on what is happening in the USA. In fact, every one of the aspects I have listed here has been tested in a UK court or at tribunal (or is presently being heard), in cases that began long before Trump took office.

That said, in Trump’s defence of women’s rights I’d simply observe that even a broken clock is right twice a day. Even if Trump’s intervention in this area is merely transactional, he is able to exploit it because the Dems have thoroughly compromised themselves on what ought to be an uncontroversial issue. Women ought to have the right to protected safe spaces (this includes sporting categories). No ifs, no buts, and definitely no coconuts.