Hell Hath No Fury Like a Trans Woman Scorned

We stopped talking about the trans debate on TRIGGERnometry some time ago. Not because we thought it was unimportant, but because we felt that–at the ideas level at least—the argument had been won. After hosting dozens of conversations with cancelled gender critical feminists, parents of children with gender dysphoria, female athletes, trans people, and activists, we had come to a point where we no longer had any questions left to ask.

If you think about it, or, rather, if you’re prepared to be honest about it, this is hardly surprising. The trans debate is quite possibly the most insane manifestation of woke ideology we’ve seen. On one side, you have thousands of years of gender binary history, scientific and medical consensus, and basic common sense. On the other, you have confused children, mediocre athletes who want a leg up, and the mentally disturbed. But such is the power of terrible ideas, especially when they are imposed by the threat of social ostracism and held in place by weaponised empathy, that for a short time the emperor could strut around the palace naked with “her penis” on full display.

In view of this, I have had little desire to comment on recent developments. When the Health Secretary Wes Streeting introduced a ban on puberty blockers for children on the NHS, to my mind this was merely a real world manifestation of a battle that had already been won. Likewise, I saw little reason to celebrate when the British Supreme Court ruled last week that women were, in fact, women. In my head, all of this had already happened and we were just waiting for reality to catch up.

What I discovered in the wake of that ruling, however, is that reality has yet to reach much of the British Left. According to Whatsapp messages leaked to the Daily Mail, Labour Ministers are already plotting to negate the effect of the ruling.

As you can see, what the people who run our country find “appalling” is not that males were ever allowed in female sports, but rather the fact that the Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission has suggested that the Supreme Court ruling prevents them from doing so.

But they are hardly alone. Regime comedian Michael Spicer said in a since-deleted tweet that all you had to know about the ruling was that the court had not heard from a single trans organisation, describing the decision as a “shitshow”. This is what passes for cutting-edge satire on the BBC.

If you are, at this point, used to the spectacle of politicians and the media elite beclowning themselves on this issue—and comfort yourself with the belief that these moronic views can only survive in the Islington bubble—I must regretfully inform you that it gets worse.