Simon Callow is fed up with the tyranny.

Simon Callow, the actor and veteran gay rights campaigner, has condemned the “strange turn to the tyrannical” taken by Stonewall on self-identification for transgender people.

Callow, who was involved in the anti-government protests that led to the foundation of Stonewall in 1989, said an “extraordinarily unproductive militancy” now surrounded its position. This uncompromising mood risked infringing women’s rights and could put pressure on young gay people to transition, he said, and it was a sign of the times that he felt nervous about the reaction he would stir up, simply for expressing his views.

The uncompromising mood [or rather stance, approach, method] emphatically already does infringe on women’s rights, including by bullying and punishing us for saying so. It’s tightly circular. We’re not allowed to say trans activism is deeply misogynist, and that not-allowing is enforced via intense punishment, which thus demonstrates how very true the thing we’re not allowed to say actually is. Callow says it’s tyranny, and he’s exactly right.

He went on: “They have taken a very strange turn towards the tyrannical, a dangerously prescriptive position on a complex issue. When it impinges on women’s rights, hard-won women’s rights, the right to exclusive spaces for women, away from any threat at all — I think that’s a very serious issue.”

So do we, and it is.

As an aside: the editor who wrote the headline saw fit to word it thus:

Actor Simon Callow attacks Stonewall, the LGBTQ+ group, over trans self-identification

At least for once it’s not “hits out at,” but “attacks” is still a tendentious way of putting it. He thinks they’re wrong and doing bad things, but he’s not hitting them or throwing missiles at them.