If you’re going to get chucked out of a political party for anything, misgendering Great Uncle Bulgaria is certainly an original way to go.
😂😂
But the last paragraph really nails it:
The Liberal Democrats say their list of transphobic behaviours is ‘not exhaustive’. No doubt, but it is exhausting. Progressives are so unnerved by debate and democracy that instead of pursuing political change through persuasion, they are trying to enforce a radical orthodoxy via law, institutional capture, social pressure and even intimidation. The result is as likely to be backlash as it is submission. In the end, though, it’s up to the Lib Dems to set their membership policies and if they want to redefine politics as bigotry, that’s their business. They’ve been redefining ‘liberal’ and ‘democrat’ for some time now.
(Not the first journo to have made the point that these days the Lib Dems are neither liberal nor democratic.)