Will Keir Starmer ever admit that men are not women?

It has been reported that Laura Pascal, the Labour candidate in a forthcoming local council by-election in London, has been suspended by her party. It is believed that this happened after complaints were made against her that she has deviated from the one true faith of transgenderism. “Trans women are not female,” she is reported to have stated on X (formerly known as Twitter). “By definition they are male.” A pinned post on her account reads: “My embodied reality as a member of the oppressed sex class is experienced in a world where biology has a significant impact.” 

It will be of great interest to see what the end result of this individual case is. Surely it has already been established that employees cannot be discriminated against for believing in the reality of biological sex and for demanding that biological women’s services, sports and spaces should be protected from intrusion from biological men, however they may present themselves.

Has it??? Where has that already been established?

Labour, or some elements within it, still believe they can take punitive action against difficult women who refuse to bow to the pressure of their peers.

They don’t just believe it, they revel in it. It’s like a luxury nine-course meal to them.

Yet here we are, watching as another woman – it’s always a woman, isn’t it? – is apparently demonised and punished for speaking out of turn, for saying things that are not only empirically and biologically true but are protected in law. 

When Stalin’s victims were hauled off to the gulag and firing squads by Soviet security forces, the victims would often insist that such punishment was being meted out without the knowledge of Comrade Stalin, who could be trusted to intervene on the side of justice once he found out. But he never did, because he knew exactly what was going on.

If Starmer knows about Laura Pascal and the reported witch trial to which she is being subjected, he should intervene now to halt it. And he must know, because you and I know, so why wouldn’t he? Let’s see what kind of leader he is.

Not the kind who gives a damn about women, we know that already.