The trouble with women is that they have opinions and not necessarily the correct ones. Some even have the audacity to demand a say in how the term ‘women’ is defined, which has been causing all sorts of problems lately. All credit, then, to the Liberal Democrats, who have devised an ingenious solution to the hassle caused by women and opinions: they’ve adopted a definition of ‘transphobia’ that effectively silences women who have the wrong opinions about ‘gender identity’.
As the party says up-front, its new policy has ‘drawn on the work done by organisations such as Stonewall and TransActual UK’. Bothersome women used to get stoned, now they get Stonewalled.
The definition, published by ‘the Disciplinary Sub Group of the Federal Board’ (which sounds like an S&M club for German auditors), will be ‘key to supporting the party’s disciplinary processes,’ we’re told. Its opening salvo is more or less reasonable:
‘“Transphobia” is the fear or dislike of someone based on the fact they are trans.
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