The "side" of the media that used to call me a "bleeding-heart" is now the side I see reporting more accurately on women's rights.
I now realise that, twenty years ago, I was a "bleeding-heart." It took two decades of life experience and involvement in the guts of community and local politics to make me realise that things were never easy or simple.
Because if solving a problem was easy and simple, it would have already been done.
I used to be perceived as a radical left-winger, which goes to show what the hard left is like. But here's the rub. If you are a pragmatic, practical person of the left, now matter how radical you are, you inevitably use a similar style of mental processing to those on the right by virtue of the fact that you ask three questions: how can this objective be realistically achieved? Will this policy have the positive effect we want? Is there a possibility that this policy will have a detrimental effect?
Asking those questions automatically puts you in the same field as those on the right in the eyes of a lot of the left , and is pretty much the downfall of the left in Britain.
I'm afraid to say that gender ideology is the first time many people will have actually faced a political phenomenon that directly affects them and where it has become apparent that few in the current political sphere have bothered to ask those three questions.