That Starmer fella...

How about no one is a prick to anyone.

It's fairly fucking easy.

Kind of.

I'm here for the trans rights and I'm here for the women's rights and it shouldn't need qualifications but I'm personally invested (or whatever) in both.

I get frustrated at these views that suggest some kind of either/or between them. It feels a bit like that meme about taking cookies away from immigrants and poor people although obviously the analogy doesn't quite run.

And I'm not always a Labour voter but if large numbers of people truly believe that only the Tories are going to protect their rights, I do think it's worth addressing, and not just pointing and shouting TRANSPHOBE! at them. Where has this belief come from? And the idea that Labour are 'prioritising' trans safety over women's safety? Is it a rumour on mumsnet and other places that's been repeated so often it just becomes accepted? Is it something that has any basis? Is it all just a big misunderstanding? Cos I'd quite like to take those votes away from the Tories. Mind you I'm also the sort of person who 'engages with racists' (not if they're actually trying to attack me at the time, usually) and I get that's not really the done thing round here.

Actually what I meant to say was that I don't think it is as easy as all that. I think there are complications in the implementation/actioning which need people to recognise are complicated and not just shout at each other with fixed and different versions of reality. What frustrates me is when these specific issues are used to justify taking a particular 'higher level' stance about abstract rights, 'encroachments', philosophies, political and human priorities. But I freely admit that politics in general is not my expertise.