It doesn't make it easier for trans people right now, but the sheer viciousness of British transphobes is driven by the fact they know they're going to lose.
Why? Because all polling shows a) women and b) younger people and c) particularly younger women most support trans rights
The strongest allies trans people have are women and younger people.
In a generation or so, there'll be a consensus that today's wave of transphobia and all the anti-trans newspaper articles were as shameful as 1980s-style homophobia.
That doesn't make it easier now, of course.
More seriously, there is clearly a particularly big problem with transphobia amongst men, and that's not being addressed properly because a particular faction of transphobes is claiming to speak on behalf of women, which has no grounds in fact as all the polling shows.
The counter argument is that we will burn in hell for all eternity for our heinous sins
Presumably this doesn't mean 40% of COVID hospital patients are double vaccinated either? It means 40% have had one *or* two jabs (or perhaps their status is unclear).
That is a whopping big mistake to make, and it has gone viral on social media.
It's also true that as the double vaccinated percentage of the population grows, the double vaccinated percentage of COVID patients grows too - because the small percentage not protected from serious illness ends up outweighing the non-vaccinated proportion of the population.
Labour's reinstatement of Trevor Phillips makes a mockery of the EHRC report, smacks of political interference in Labour's complaints system, and shows renewed contempt from the Labour party towards British Muslims.
Trevor Phillips' suspension - before his case was heard by a Labour NEC panel - was lifted without due process, which is a breach of the party's agreed guidance.
The only exception to this rule is mistaken identity, which clearly does not apply in the case of Trevor Phillips.
Any decision to waive this rule would be taken by the Investigations Officer, who happens to be the only Muslim staff member in Labour's Governance and Legal Unit, which handles complaints.
But the Investigations Officer was entirely excluded from the process.
This is a massive victory for Kim Leadbeater - a genuinely phenomenal campaigner liked across the constituency - and a local campaign which mobilised huge numbers.
It's also a rout for the Tory-voting Nigel Farage associate George Galloway, who no leftwinger should ever support.
The Batley and Spen result provides breathing space for the Labour leadership, and the test is whether they take that and turn it all around - because as things stand, Labour remains on course for an electoral catastrophe significantly worse than the disaster of 2019.
Oppositions do better in by elections than general elections - that's a basic rule of politics. The genuine relief felt across Labour should not eclipse a basic fact - badly losing one seat won in 2019 and then scraping another means the party is *currently* heading for disaster.
I'm happy to repost this but George Galloway needs to do a far more thorough clarification than this, and I'll be talking to journalists on the ground, too.
Scrolling through the latest round of mindless abuse, triggered because I said the Labour leader should resign if he loses two by elections in a row, I can't help but feel pity.
It's not just the delusion about how powerful my tweets are. It's the deranged obsession.
Guys, I'm just a columnist expressing my opinions. That's my job. You may think that my view the Labour leader should resign after two by-election results is wrong, and you really HATE!!! me for it, but it's just an opinion. Take it or leave it!
Certain people have allowed me to live rent free in their heads to such a degree that they think my tweets are causing Labour's collapse in popularity, as though swing voters are sitting around waiting on my timeline before forming their opinions. This is obviously unhinged.