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I have to emphasize that the Labour Prime Minister’s views on trans people are far to the right of basically every mainstream political party in Europe. And people didn’t vote for it. He was *elected* on a more inclusive platform. This was a decision, taken for no good reason. Why not bigger news?

Well then the UK is already there.

Nearly everyone will say that UK democracy is fine. It’s nothing like Trump or Orban.

Isn’t it? At what point does it become that? Sterilization for trans men? Terrorism designations for peaceful protest? Having your children taken from you if they do not align with a biological absolutist view?

How did things get so bad here? Where does this end?

With awareness to how dramatic it may sound, it feels like those of us ringing the alarm bells are like political dissidents in a rapidly crumbling democracy, except no one is listening because they cannot believe it.

No one has any idea what the law actually says about toilets, but it clearly does NOT say that they must be restricted on the basis of biology. Nonetheless, major employers are moving forward with such draconian and invasive restrictions, and it’s barely news.

NHS England is reported to be referring families raising trans children to social services in an apparent abuse of private data.

Gender recognition panels are denying already elusive gender recognition certificates to trans men who have tried to conceive.

If you *only* consider the question of toilets, and nothing else, Britain has been turned into a hostile environment for trans people.

Britain is now the most hostile country to be trans in Europe, other than Russia or Hungary.

You can make the lives of minorities extremely difficult and impose ever mounting misery on them.

But no injustice can last forever, and the refusal of trans people to stop existing, or their allies to stop fighting, means this will, in time, only end one way.