Melodrama and hyperbolic overreaction and loud fits of rage are always a winning political strategy, right? Always the way to win people over to your side? Always the cue to open the floodgates of sympathy and solidarity?Especially when based on an ideological commitment and command to deny material reality as the basis of the belief system?

Canterbury Young Labour committee has been deeply worried and saddened today at the comments and actions of our MP @RosieDuffield1. Firstly, we would like to extend our unconditional solidarity and love to trans people, whos rights are under attack from the government.

— Canterbury Young Labour (@CanterburyYL) August 1, 2020

Deeply. Deeply worried. Deeply worried and saddened. Deeply worried and saddened at the … Read the rest

Oh look at that, how interesting. There’s a thing – a campaign? group? website? all of the above? – called Prostate Cancer UK. It’s quite unabashed about saying it’s men who get prostate cancer. Men, we are with you, it says on the front page. Twice.

Men, men, man, men, in just one bit of the home page.

Scroll down – lots more use of the word.

And they’re on Twitter. Not abashed about the M word there either.

The latest tweet:

https://twitter.com/ProstateUK/status/1289536363650416640

Where are all the angry cries about exclusion?… Read the rest

Labour Campaign for Trans Rights – i.e. some trans “activists” who created a website – has “issued” a “statement” saying why MP Rosie Duffield is in their view “transphobic.”

We in the Labour Campaign for Trans Rights are shocked by the comments made by Rosie Duffield today. To insist that “only women have a cervix” denies the existence of trans men and many nonbinary people. Not all women have cervixes, and not everyone who has a cervix is a woman.

Shocked, shocked.

Saying that only women have a cervix does not “deny the existence” of anyone. That claim is idiotic. An activism founded on idiotic claims of that kind (and not much else) is an activism that is doomed … Read the rest

Another one in the crosshairs:

Labour MP Rosie Duffield has locked her Twitter account as she is facing abuse and official complaints because she said that only women have a cervix (something that's a biological fact) pic.twitter.com/8GC5o8vTbV

— ripx4nutmeg (@ripx4nutmeg) August 1, 2020

What terrible thing did she say?

Rosie Duffield is trending because of this. I am so sad to see the calls for her to be removed. The many examples of abuse directed at her. The demands for her head on a plate. Labour has switched up a gear over this one tweet. Antisemitism & misogyny don’t have this effect. pic.twitter.com/oZvSPqsUKc

— Emma Palermo – I Stand with JK Rowling (@worriedmumofone) August 1, 2020

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