Julie Burchill Julie Burchill

The march of the trans mob is over

A trans rights protester on the streets of London (Getty images)

I wake up in a good humour most mornings, but today I started the day feeling that this country – which seems, in so many ways, to have been sleepwalking in a hall of distorting mirrors for so long – had taken a definitive step towards the overthrow of the crazed, tyrannical cult which has inexplicably gained power all around the world.

In the process of dignifying a male sexual fetish – autogynephilia – into the latest human rights crusade, careers have been ruined and reputations wrecked by trans activists and their creepy ‘allies’: all in the name of the ultimate patriarchal plan; to colonise everything won by women, from toilets to trophies, until we have nothing left of our own except the wombs in which the young among us may carry foetuses for rich homosexual men.

Now the much-maligned and ever-bolshy women of ‘TERF Island’ have seen the fruits of their labour come to bloom with the decision of this country’s top judges that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex. What will the (very) cross-dressing army do now?

Regarding the murderous threats they’ve made to the most visible of us – for laydees, lots of them seem very keen on old-fashioned, traditional rape – they appear to have an awful lot of time and energy on their shovel-sized hands. We can expect many an ‘opinion’ column in the sillier sort of newspaper telling us that we’re living in literally Nazi Germany; a bit of performative blubbering; quite a few threats to leave the country. There will be a legal crowdfunder or two in order to overturn the verdict of the Supreme Court. And the rest of us will have a good laugh at the whole lot of them.

If these men really were women – and political ones at that, as they like to pretend – they’d put their defeat to one side, suck it up and simply get stuck in to fighting for women’s issues to demonstrate their determination to keep faith with the second sex. There’s certainly a fair amount to protest about. The pandemic of sexual violence. The over-representation of females who have committed non-violent crime in prisons. The restriction of abortion everywhere from Trump’s USA to Communist Nicaragua. But they won’t be getting involved in any of these issues, as none of the goals would involve pushing women out of their own spaces and then trampling all over them with their man-size feet. Instead, they’ll sulk, shout and stomp around, ceaselessly thirsty for media attention.

We expect the continuation of standard hysteria from this lot – gradually ‘petering out’ hopefully – and from their noisiest allies the ‘Black Pampers’, those young incels who dress up their standard sex-starved woman-hatred as something rad.

What’s more ambiguous is what the more respectable trans-allies will do next; specifically, members of parliament: men like Ed Davey, who once straight out announced on national radio that women can ‘quite clearly’ have penises. The Lib Dem leader would be unwise to still be flogging that particular passed-over pony come next election time – with Reform currently trouncing his party into fourth place in the polls – or he might decide he has nothing to lose, thus keeping hold of a navvy dressed up as a nurse for fear of finding something worse. Nicola Sturgeon and Mhairi Black have made their excuses and left frontline politics; their party, the SNP, has been thoroughly eviscerated by its trans-pandering; the Greens, too, have been torn asunder.

But it’s what those weirdoes in the Labour party – who risked putting men’s fantasies before women’s safety – will do next that is the really interesting question. Seeing as they’re the party of government, they are surely the most embarrassed to have their imaginary friend defrocked. Yes, the Tories looked the other way and let it all happen, but it was Labour who embraced ‘trans rights’ with the slobbering fervour of a teenage fan getting hold of a boy-bander.

A legal-fetishist like Sir Keir must think Christmas has come early now he can turn around to the monstrous legion of Transmaids (a woman who acts in a servile manner towards men, like a handmaid, but only if that man claims to be a woman) in his ranks and say ‘Look: it’s the law!’ But will those like Lisa Nandy – who once said that it was perfectly fine to put a rapist in a female jail – suddenly discover the ability to zip it? I doubt it.

Time and again we see the aggression of males attempting to rob women of their hard-won necessities and pleasures. Brave women stand up against these wolves in ewes clothing, often to have their livelihoods and even lives ruined; cowardly women give in to them and become Transmaids.

So many inadequate women have built their whole identity around trans rights that they will not put their precious burden down without a fight. But they need to heed the wake-up call if they are not to waste the rest of their lives as groupies for the ultimate indie-landfill crusade.

Autogynephiles are not Martin Luther King – or Rosa Parks, more accurately, taking into consideration their mass delusion. They are transvestites who forgot to clock off, seeking to use femaleness as cosplay. For those trans folk who wanted to write women out of our hard-won story, it’s time to get those sensible shoes ready, lad(d)ies: your protracted game of dress-up is drawing to a close.

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