His first tweet is that the younger generation is, 'as a rule totally cool with being trans', and that the only people who are 'at odds' with the hip youth are older 'out of touch' people. This does not mesh with my experience at all. I know loads of students and young people who are deeply critical of certain aspects of trans ideology. Only one of my close female friends is really supportive of trans stuff, and even then she is willing to engage and is troubled by gender critical arguments (but ultimately resorts to 'they are vulnerable so it's the nice thing to do.) When you get young people in a physical space and actually let them talk without fear, the consensus seems to be that being trans is fine but things like males in sports, or self-ID law is troubling. So it's a bit of a red herring to make this seem like young people are totally on board.
I actually burst out laughing at his pompous "if you are a man and the reality of your engagement with equality issues is that you do little more than default to the views of a significant woman in your life, that doesn't make you woke, it makes you lazy." Right, Jo, and what kind of man does it make you when you never listen to the views of women, significant or not, ever?
I'm also agog at this white, straight, well educated, able bodied, middle class very privileged dude lecturing us about intersectionality. I"m sorry, but he's a tax lawyer! And he's basically saying you should be suspicious if the people you agree with are from an empowered class - doesn't that undermine the chorus of support from his own followers? If you agree with Jo Maugham that isn't exactly very 'intersectional'.
Also, this talk of 'tribes' is creepy and weird.
He's retweeted a follower who is deeply swayed by the asinine observation that if someone wants to attack a woman in changing rooms they don't need trans rights to dress up as a woman to do so. No, but self-ID greatly facilitates their access to these spaces. It should be possible to challenge a man in a dress in changing rooms. but self-ID actively states that his presence in that space is none of my business. I honestly think these people have their heads in the sand because it's actually deeply unpleasant and disturbing to think about how many perverted men there are out there. I used to know a very sweet, quiet and shy young man from work who...was arrested for filming women on the toilets. He was caught sneaking into an upscale establishment. You would never in a million years have suspected him of such a thing. And yet he had hundreds of these videos which he uploaded online, and he went to ever desperate lengths to capture them. Self-id, and those congratulatory signs on toilets saying someone's identity is none of our business, is an absolute dream for a person like him.