Cowardly Keir Starmer has fuelled trans activist bullies – he’s shown no backbone and Labour owe all women an apology
IT has taken almost a week for our Prime Minister to comment on the most important legal decision since he became PM, namely the Supreme Court’s clarification of the law, confirming that “sex” in the 2010 Equality Act means biological sex.
Today, Sir Keir Starmer (who once claimed that one in a thousand women has a penis) was asked by a local news channel whether he believed a trans woman was a woman.
He replied: “I think the Supreme Court has answered that question.”
Pressed to say whether that meant he did not believe a trans woman is a woman, he said: “A woman is an adult female, and the court has made that absolutely clear.”
As if this man – who is a senior barrister – needed a court to tell him what a woman is.
His refusal to stand with common sense and women’s rights has given fuel to the trans activists who’ve spent the past few years bullying almost everyone into submission.
Now that the highest court in the land has confirmed what the law actually says, these extremists have taken to the streets, showing their true colours.
Protests held around the country since the legal decision have put the demonstrators’ misogyny on full display.
One sign at the protest in London’s Parliament Square targeted trans-exclusionary radical feminists and showed a hangman’s gallows alongside the slogan “The only good TERF is a - - - - one”. (Presumably, the mystery word is spelt DEAD).
Another showed an image of a man with a bloodied knife stuck in his eye.
It read: “Are you a transphobe? Why not try a D.I.Y. LOBOTOMY.”
Others revealed an obsessive focus on toilets, with #PeeForMe and slogans like: “Trans women are women.
“Trans men are men.
“If you don’t like that, go s**t somewhere else.”
Also in evidence were calls to defecate “on a pile of Harry Potter books” or “on the head of another TERF”, as well as “Kill JK Rowling” and “Bring back witch burning: JK Rowling”.
Numerous statues were daubed with graffiti before thousands of trans rights protesters marched through central London on Saturday.
And despite the overt and explicit threats of violence to women, the main concern expressed by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper was about statues: “Criminal damage like this, including to statues of men and women who fought for freedom and justice, like Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela and Millicent Fawcett, is disgraceful — it is right the police are investigating.”
Leaked WhatsApp messages by certain Labour ministers included an attack on Baroness Falkner, Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
Like villagers with pitchforks screaming: “Burn the witch”, the words on the lips of the mob on London’s streets this weekend were “Trans Power”.
A power that has carried them far, causing women standing up for their rights to be arrested, sacked, kicked out of college, shunned from LGBT groups, ostracised and vilified in friendship groups.
That power was handed to them on a silver platter by the idiots in every single political party.
When it comes to contentious issues, we know that Starmer has no backbone.
He betrayed Rosie Duffield, refusing to intervene against the horrendous bullying and threats of violence she endured because of her stance defending women on the issue.
And in the end, he — and the Labour Party — lost her.
Cowards like Starmer have allowed themselves to be bullied into capitulation.
Violent rage
Middle-class progressives were happy to throw the rights of both women and LGB people away as they bleated about how trans women (biological men) were the most vulnerable, oppressed minority on the planet.
Hook, line and sinker, they fell for the lie that the oppressors were women, feminists.
Even though I voted Labour last year — because I believe in a welfare state — I’m not surprised the party has betrayed women in this way.
Nevertheless, we are owed a huge apology.
Starmer has had so much to say about Netflix show Adolescence and so-called “toxic masculinity” yet not a word about the heterosexual men screaming in our faces because they can no longer shut down our events when we keep them out.
The past few days have been like a condensation of the past 21 years, with the violent rage of men claiming to be women an indication that trans activists never expected anyone to dare stop them invading our spaces and stealing our rights.
The fact that Starmer caved on an issue so pivotal to the rights of 51 per cent of the planet proves he has no guts, no backbone and no integrity.
By waiting for the Supreme Court to tell him what a woman is, Starmer has allowed trans activists to bully the majority of Britain’s institutions, and its citizens, into capitulating to them.
As a result, women have suffered greatly — and he must not be let off the hook.