He can dish it out but
Lloyd Russell-Moyle has stepped down from the Labour frontbench, saying he had been the victim of a “torrent of online hate” because of a “campaign by the rightwing media”.
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Russell-Moyle did not specify the details of the abuse he had suffered. His resignation came weeks after he apologised to the author JK Rowling for accusing her of “using her own sexual assault as justification for discriminating” against trans people.
And of course by “discriminating against trans people” he means saying such shocking things as:
I’m concerned about the huge explosion in young women wishing to transition and also about the increasing numbers who seem to be detransitioning (returning to their original sex), because they regret taking steps that have, in some cases, altered their bodies irrevocably, and taken away their fertility. Some say they decided to transition after realising they were same-sex attracted, and that transitioning was partly driven by homophobia, either in society or in their families.
Let’s look again at what he said about Rowling:
Rather than attacking the update or even the two main laws, the Gender Recognition Act 2005 and the Equality Act 2010, these conservative forces attacked nebulous concepts which you couldn’t argue with. They raised women and children’s safety in ways that seemed innocuous at first but were ultimately manipulated to cast trans people as predators. These issues on their own are important and worthy of discussion, but here they were being used cynically to undermine the rights of others.
We saw the spectacle of a social conservative shouting “penis” over and over again at trans women during a TV debate, as if this was enough to win the argument. Recently, of course, we saw people like JK Rowling using her own sexual assault as justification for discriminating against a group of people who were not responsible for it. Trans people are no more likely to be rapists; in fact, they are more likely to be victims of sexual assault themselves. That’s why, despite JK Rowling’s hate towards them, hundreds of trans people wrote to complain to The Sun when it trivialised her domestic abuse on a recent front page.
Not a nice man.
We saw the spectacle of a social conservative shouting “penis” over and over again…
Reminds me of a thought I had a while back.
When a man is (usually) losing an argument he will shout “Suck my dick”. I also see men who think they are women, in the same situation, chant “Suck my girlie dick”. What could be more revealing that the cock in a frock really is a man?
I am yet to hear any woman, when losing an argument, say “lick/suck my pussy”.
And because he’s on the left, anyone opposing or criticizing him must be, by definition, conservative or right wing, regardless of the sum total of their beliefs. The toxic wokeness, and almighty self-righteousness blinds him to the fact that gender identitarianism is regressive as hell.
No surprise he represents Brighton, the Woke Capital of the UK.
No one is necessarily “casting trans people as predators.” Rather, it’s casting male predators as taking advantage of the access to female victims that TA policy and rhetoric provide. No one has a clear definition of how to tell who are the non-predatory “real’ TiM’s, and who are just the predatory strand of blokes pretending to be trans, because now it’s open season on women’s spaces. There’s no litmus test for distinguishing one from another. It’s also not “casting trans people as predators” in another sense: notice the vagueness of “trans people” when what we are really talking about is MEN. It’s not “trans people.” It’s not as if trans identified females are really being included in the group (“trans people”) supposedly posing a danger to women. And it’s the “not all men” trope (“not trans women”) all over again. Men pose a danger to women, not because all or most men are predators, but because the predators are mainly men. They refuse to grasp this principle.