Nothing captures the madness of our times better than the trans ruling hysteria

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25-04-2025

Just when you thought the meltdown over the Supreme Court's trans ruling couldn't get any madder, here comes Lord Cashman. In the Lords yesterday, the EastEnders alumnus and Labour peer said some trans people are fleeing Britain and 'seeking asylum' in friendlier nations.
That's right: people are apparently upping sticks because a court of law said what every toddler once knew to be true – that men are men and women are women. The ruling has stirred up dread and panic in LGBTQ circles, said Lord Cashman.
'Currently, trans people in this country live in fear, they live in fear of their safety, their futures', he said. It's so bad that some of his trans friends are 'looking at seeking asylum in countries where they will not fear [for their] safety.'
My money is on this being a lot of bourgeois bluster. Leftish types are forever threatening to leave the country if things don't go their way, but they rarely do. Columnists promised to flee if Boris Johnson won the 2019 election. Luvvies said they'd be out of here if the 'gammon' voted for Brexit.
And yet they're all still here, in this supposed hellsite of a nation, living it up as nicely as they always did. So we can chill if some of Cashman's chums really did say over a glass of Cristal that they're thinking of packing their bags. That's just something well-off liberals say.
I doubt we're about to witness an exodus of 'the oppressed' just because a court affirmed what even the Neanderthals knew – that if you have a penis, you're not a woman. And yet, the very fact Lord Cashman could stand up in the Lords and say trans people might have to flee our wicked shores is incredibly revealing.
It is a testament to the untrammeled hysteria that has followed the Supreme Court's ruling. It is of a piece with the hyperbole and handwringing that has greeted this entirely sensible ruling. No sooner had the five judges said that a woman is an adult human female than the trans lobby and its allies were darkly warning of tyranny.
Our safety and dignity have been destroyed, said trans activists and their sympathisers. Imagine the industrial levels of brass neck it must require to bleat about your 'safety' when you were part of a movement that green-lighted the jailing of rapists alongside women.
Lord Cashman says his trans friends fear for their 'safety' and 'futures'. How does he think women have been feeling these past few years? They've been told they must welcome men into their most intimate spaces: changing rooms, toilets, rape-crisis centres.
They watched violent men be placed among vulnerable women in the prison estate. They've seen biological males nab women's medals in every sport from cycling to snooker. What about their safety, my lord? What about the 'futures' of girls who love sport but dread having to compete against hulking fellas who think they're women?
He will forgive me, I hope, if I reserve my sympathy for real women whose real rights have been undermined, rather than for fantasy women whose 'right' to go wherever they please has justly been taken down a peg or two. People like Cashman have no idea how nutty they sound when they say there might be a great fleeing following this ruling.
All the ruling says is that, for the purposes of the Equality Act, 'woman' means biological women and 'man' means biological man. This was a given for centuries. Millennia, in fact. We've known since we first came down from the trees that we are sexually dimorphic – even if it took a few more million years to come up with words like that.
It isn't the Supreme Court ruling that's crazy – it's that we needed it in the first place. Nothing better captures the lunacy of the woke era than the fact that a court ruling stating the truth of biology has caused such a storm.
That's down to the likes of Lord Cashman, Keir Starmer and the rest of the establishment that slavishly bowed to the post-truth notion that you could have a todger and be a woman. Having helped to prop up such unscientific delirium, these people made truth itself seem controversial.
And now their 'friends' apparently want to flee the nation because reason has been restored and women's rights have been upheld. You know what? If truth and women's freedom offend you that much, I might just chip in for your ticket.
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