Not very well people

Labour MP says people who don’t believe in magic gender are swivel-eyed loons.

A Labour backbencher has been filmed deriding “transphobes” as “swivel-eyed” and suggesting they are “not very well people”. Tim Roca described the Supreme Court judgment on trans rights as “very depressing” and rejected his own party’s stance that it had brought “clarity”.

He made the remarks during a talk he gave earlier this month at an event hosted by the University of Westminster, called Queering Academia.

“I think actually the UK has now really gone down the rabbit hole into the way the United States discusses issues of gender, race, poverty, all of that,” he said. “So if we can bring the debate back into being one based on rationalism and compassion – and actually as we know, the facts – I think that’s a much better place for all of us to be.”

Yes, quite: the facts. Fact #1: humans can’t change sex.

“What we can’t be, is we can’t look like the alternative version of the transphobes. The best argument against them is a conversation with them, because they look swivel-eyed and honestly, they’re not very well people, I don’t think, the ones that I’ve met. So we have to make sure, as passionate we are, that we’re talking passionately but sensibly and bringing people around.”

By insisting that humans can change sex. It’s not going to work, chum.

Speaking at a panel event titled Leading While Queer, he attacked the Supreme Court judgment that womanhood is legally defined by biological sex.

Because “womanhood” should obviously be defined by whatever someone says, so if a serial rapist says he’s a woman he is a woman and you had better shut up.

He also criticised Baroness Falkner, the outgoing chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), and said Labour MPs were pushing for a pro-Trans replacement.

Baroness Falkner came under attack from Left-wing backbenchers after the watchdog issued guidance in light of the verdict, banning trans women from female toilets.

“I challenged the equalities watchdog after that very depressing Supreme Court judgment,” the Macclesfield MP said. “The EHRC is clearly led by somebody who is not a friend of our community. In my view, I want to make sure the next head of the EHRC is somebody who is a friend of our community. And I’ve got colleagues in Parliament who are working really, really hard on that. But challenging the EHRC interim guidance, which is appalling, was really, really important.”

He disputed that the judgment had brought “clarity”, saying it had “caused fear and incredible uncertainty and…undermined protections” for trans people.”

Protections for female people of course don’t matter at all.

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