The tone of this suggests further turning of the tide.. can we dare to hope!!

I don't read papers. Are the left writing articles that are unsupportive of JKR? Or are they just staying quiet?

I tend to think that anyone staying quiet (including slebs) are generally of the GC viewpoint and rather than risk anything by speaking out, they simply say nothing.

“Wims, don't bother arguing with Blueberry about your leftwing credentials. Blueberry knows this is a left-wing dominated site, and that's the point of Blue's comment.”

This is very true. I tend to get a bit defensive when people accuse me of being right wing! Which is pointless. Particularly given that I think one of best things about GC is what a broad church it is.

No-one bothers informing people they know to be right-wing that they're right-wing, because they would just say, "er I know. Your point?"

The aim is to smear left-wing people to other left-wing people, and to make traditionally left-wing feminists doubt their conclusions on this topic. The ultimate hope is that you will end up worrying so much about being right-wing that you will fall into line on gender identity philosophy and sign women's rights away, in order to buff up your left-wing credentials.

I wouldn't say that I am part of 'the GC movement' either as I'm not entirely sure how you are defining it there.

I do however vehemently support freedom of expression and admire Maya Forstater and JK Rowling among others. I loathe gender identity ideology and the damage it is doing to children's and young people's bodies and minds, to girls' and women's sports, and to the safety of women in prisons.

Your 'gotcha' is really dreary and it doesn't work in the UK, where the biggest and most effective push-back against gender woo crap is happening - and is coming from the left-of-centre as well as the right-of-centre, between whom (in the UK) there can sometimes appear the thinnest of lines.

died in the wool

Does someone want to point the Grauniad in the direction of "Well done JK. The world is going nuts,and we have to stand behind anyone who believes in free speech..." and its 21998 thumbs-up votes?

Well it's very low stakes isn't it. A communist revolution is not looking likely any time soon. Perhaps if it was, and the threat of violent wealth distribution was very real, those discussions might be a bit more heated.

The condescension just oozes out doesn't it?

barley you are the people's poet and I claim my ten pounds.

The rest of your post is even less worth commenting on, though I’d be vaguely interested to know which trans rights GC people are opposed to.

Well said Grumpy. I'm generally a bit of a leftie but I don't find it surprising that anyone from the left, right or centre of politics, whether authoritarian or permissive, believes in the reality of either Biology specifically or science more generally. These are facts. Denying them does not make them any less true.

Trans people should and do have rights but rights are not some Top Trumps game in which being trans is somehow your highest scoring card. Others also have rights and protecting these is the best way to ensure we have the sort of society in which trans rights are preserved. Yes trans rights are human rights, but women's rights are also human rights.

Though it is interesting that pretty much every authoritarian tendency from Stalinists to Evangelicals to Daily Mail social conservatives to actual died in the wool Fascists all oppose trans rights.
I'm as GC as they come and absolutely do NOT oppose trans rights.

I want trans people to have the rights we all enjoy, to live their lives fully and completely. That doesn't mean that I want to medicalise children who haven't the mental and emotional maturity to make massive decisions about their bodies, or that I am prepared to sit back and see the rights of women to sex-based spaces (and sports) taken away.

So do bugger off with that argument.

I'm a bit surprised to discover if you vote Tory you are ipso facto a Stalinist. Someone should ask Boris why on earth he's proposing collectivising agriculture, Idk if that's a policy your average conservative is likely to get behind.

It's perfectly possible to have radical and revolutionary economic goals but also to be deeply socially conservative and authoritarian. In fact thats pretty much what Stalinism is. That doesn't mean Stalinism and Tories are the same.

Though it is interesting that pretty much every authoritarian tendency from Stalinists to Evangelicals to Daily Mail social conservatives to actual died in the wool Fascists all oppose trans rights.

The left has totally lost its way. Gone is class analysis and in is the most capitalist, individualistic ideology possible. What better to create patients for life for a growing industry
Misogyny has always been rife in Left and Right. Now left wing beardies can enjoy more and more extreme misogyny whilst pretending to be progressive

I might add, I am a moderate Tory. My Communist DD and I can debate our polar opposite political views without issuing death threats to one another. Perhaps we could have the same courtesy from the TRAs?

One can only laugh at a gender ideologist decrying authoritarian tendencies! Lack of insight, much?

barleybadminton I’m also a bisexual and very much in favour of gay rights. I’m also a fan of the rights that I have as a woman. I’m also GC in part because I very much object to the authoritarian tendencies of TRAs, not because I’m an authoritarian myself!