I wasted a lot of breath trying to convince fellow leftists in the run up to the last election that a vote for Labour under its current leadership was a vote against LGBTQ+ people like me. Of course it would have been nice to believe they were just making a few dodgy statements about banning trans women from hospital wards to get into office and it would all be fine once the Conservatives were out of power. But that was never going to happen.
Lo and behold, Keir Starmer is welcoming the judgement from the UK Supreme Court. “A woman is an adult female,” he said this week. Never mind that back in the mists of time that was 2022 he was proudly saying “trans women are women”. I genuinely hate to say I told you so, but he was always going to be a craven backtracker.
