Should a healthy young person having a double mastectomy be celebrated? That certainly seems to be the implication of a new advert by Costa Coffee, which features someone showing off their new scars while holding a cup of the chain’s overpriced swill.
Less clear though is what the Labour party thinks, given its ricocheting stance on trans issues. Happily the party’s resident bloviator Lloyd Russell-Moyle was on hand this morning to shed some light on the issue – or perhaps not…
Appearing on Julia Hartley-Brewer’s TalkTV show, the Brighton MP at first defended the advert by suggesting that all bodies should be ‘celebrated’. Pressed by Hartley-Brewer if that meant he would celebrate someone amputating their leg unnecessarily, the MP pivoted, instead suggesting that we didn’t know the ‘motivations’ of the person in the ad, before eventually saying that it was ‘judgmental’ for people to decide what someone’s body should look like.
Unfortunately, for Russell-Moyle the interview returned to the dreaded leg amputation question.
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