Trans Ruling NOT So Simple...

Here are 5 problems we face!

Last week, the UK ruled that trans women are not "literally" women. Obviously, this also means that trans men are not men. But nobody gives a fuck. Don't get me wrong. It is despicable the way a twisted ideology took hold of young women and spat them out by the time a fake penis crafted from their wrist had torn through their groin, ended their fertility and ruined their lives.

But from a purely legal perspective - and that's what was won last week - most men don't mind if women who think they're men have a legal right to use the gents.

If I had it my way, nobody would be in my bathroom. It's something for the scientists of tomorrow to solve…maybe we'll piss into a digital cloud? But for now, we make do with disgusting, stinky bathrooms.

The worst are those in old pubs and football stadia (where we stand side by side in a lake of piss - shoelaces drowning in urine - aiming into what can only be described as a trough) and motorway service stations.

Though rare, upon entering such premises, I've endured weird behaviour from men. Men who ignore rows of empty urinals to sidle up next to me. Men who try to catch my attention by wiggling their worms at me. It's far from a pleasant environment. But women (even of the deluded variety who have grown beards) pose little threat.

So, what we are celebrating is that men - the same men who wobbled their worms at me - are no longer legally allowed to do so in women's bathrooms. That this needed to be stated is mad to unprecedented degrees.

Looking back through history, we believed some pretty barmy stuff: that we're the centre of the universe, that women shouldn't have the vote and that disease was the result of sinning in past lives. But I defy you to present a madder commonly-held belief than "men who say they are women…are women".

Do not underestimate the importance of this decision. It may be self-evident to you and me that men aren't women and vice versa, but Australia's 'grown-ups' failed miserably at this task when punishing Sall Grover for not allowing an ostensible fetishist who calls himself the porn star name Roxy Tickle into her women-only app.

Despite this, I urge caution.

Ever the pessimist, here are five reasons this is still an utter shit-show:

1. The Double Punishment

Even as the culture finally begins to move away from this nonsense, those of us who were cast out for speaking out don’t get a seat at the dinner table. Where are our reparations? Our apologies? How many of you readers lost jobs, friends and family just for being honest about their warped ideology?

Now, as this begins to fall away, and they move onto their next ridiculous fashion, all that the zeitgeist remembers is: "That person was an extremist".

Nobody now gives Graham Linehan back his own musical rights and TV career. Nobody now extends the apology to him that he so dearly deserves. The same people who gate-kept with authoritarian magical thinking will keep their jobs and promulgate the line that it was his (and my and your) 'tone' that was the problem - not that they went insane for ten years and let blokes into women's toilets.

2. The Elites Won’t Change

Yes, comedian Katherine Ryan pulled back on her wokeness (despite just a couple of years ago lamenting women who didn't want men in their loos). But you don't expect David Tennant or James O'Brien to suddenly realise the error of their ways, do you?

The trans belief is unique in being so insane that it's impossible for its adherents to renounce their faith publicly. It's one thing to call yourself a lapsed Christian or a recovered alcoholic. It's quite another to venture into an about-turn on an error of judgement with: "You know when I was fervently campaigning to get burly men into girls' sports…"

3. The Law Isn't Everything

This was hugely important, and we couldn't win this fight for women's rights without an eventual victory in the courts. But ask yourselves this: if the courts had gone the other way, would it have made the ideological trans stance any truer? Of course not.

And if it didn’t happen that this madness so evidently impinged on the rights of women, would we as a society have come together to dispel its lunacy? We are finding that feelings trump facts. We fought back with an argument about women’s rights. I’m pleased it went this way. But I’m frustrated that “the philosophy doesn’t add up” is not sufficient on its own to dispel mad ideas. I’m thinking of the doctors who bent over backwards to explain that men are women. It’s frightening - much like when Arthur Conan Doyle believed in fairies.

Unbelievably, the reaction to last week’s ruling by the celebs, elites and lunatics - even after the Cass Report and WPATH Files - shows that we still have some convincing and arguing to do.

4. We Can’t Trust the Media

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