Talking about women’s rights is transphobic.

Teachers who discuss sex-based women’s rights with transgender colleagues would be considered “transphobic” under a policy proposed by members of Britain’s largest teaching union.

That is, feminist teachers who talk about feminism with colleagues who call themselves transgender will be branded evil by their own union. People who call themselves trans have all the rights and women have none.

The National Education Union’s trans and non-binary network has proposed that anyone who expects trans people “to participate in discussion or debate about their rights and/or identities” is transphobic.

I wouldn’t want to talk to trans people about it, frankly, because they wouldn’t listen. The trouble is it will probably come up, because the men who claim to be women will violate women’s rights, so then women will be forced to tell them so and explain how. But that will be thought crime so women are SOL either way.

The draft proposal of a transphobia definition, seen by The Telegraph, also cited “propagating ideas, concepts and misinformation harmful to trans people and which erase and ignore trans history, such as trans as an ideology or contagion”, as an example of transphobic behaviour.

The policy neither outlined what it meant by “trans history”, nor what “ideas, concepts and misinformation” would be considered harmful to trans people.

It further defined transphobia as a “rejection of trans identity and a refusal to acknowledge that those identities are real or valid” or the “incorrect use of pronouns”.

A refusal to acknowledge – so it’s not just active rejection that’s a thoughtcrime, it’s also the mere not saying or echoing or agreeing. No you can’t just keep your mouth shut, you have to recite the creed twice a day. If not, Torquemada has an appointment with you.

The definition has been drafted after a resolution to define transphobia was passed at the last annual NEU conference in the spring.

The conference instructed the NEU’s executive to “work with the Trans and Non-Binary Network to develop a Union definition of transphobia that goes above and beyond legal compliance and that supports and endorses trans and non-binary identities without resorting to the erasure or downgrading of ‘gender’”.

Ahhh above and beyond – that’s where the mandate to affirm comes in. It’s not enough to just be quiet, however reluctantly; you have to say, and say and say and say, from dawn til dusk, or it’s the fire for you.

When have women ever had this level of concern and caring and support? Never, that’s when.