Monday 20 November 2017

Winning The TERF War

From John Healey's doubts on The Westminster Hour last night, to the fact that the proponents of what is, after all, the Government's proposed Bill are now targeting Linda Bellos, a friend and comrade of Jeremy Corbyn's since the 1970s, it looks increasingly like a Labour free vote, and a substantial number of Labour votes against.

Women only spaces will have protectors against the presumed neoliberal right to define oneself as anything that one pleases and then to demand that everyone else, including the State, go along with it. The Morning Star has now been saying so for years.

I have no objection to the treatment of gender dysphoria on the NHS, because it is an illness. There would be no case for treating anything on the NHS if it were not a diagnosed, and thus a diagnosable, medical condition. And that treatment does not change anyone's sex. It just doesn't. That is a fact.

Women only spaces. That is the ground. And we can win on it. We can win this one.

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