Keir Starmer thinks ‘this is the time now to lower the temperature’ on the gender debate. To ‘move forward’. To ‘conduct this debate with the care and compassion that it deserves’. That is what he said at Prime Minister’s Questions. What a shallow, hollow man he is.
Now is the time to lower the temperature? Not when women’s meetings were being cancelled, their proceedings disrupted, and their attendees attacked? Not when Kathleen Stock was being hounded out of Sussex University, Maya Forstater lost her employment contract, or Jo Phoenix was unfairly constructively dismissed from the Open University? Not when David Lammy called gender critics ‘dinosaurs’, Angela Rayner signed a charter calling feminist campaigners ‘hate groups’, or Karen Ingala-Smith’s party membership application was rejected because Labour thought her feminist activism could be interpreted as ‘hostility based on gender identity’?
Move forward? Every time proponents of biology tried to move forward from this reality-throttling ideology, they were impeded by good Labour people upholding the new orthodoxy.
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