Me. I absolutely would have voted for him apart from that.
Up until now I've voted Labour against my own self interest because I think Tories and austerity are a busted ideology that's bad for most people in the country even if they are good for me personally. But I can't vote for a party that pretends a lifetime's experience of living as a woman in the world has no more authority about womanhood than the imaginary life of a woman lived in the mind of a man.
Last night I was very tempted not to vote at all, because other than Tory, any vote for a party that acknowledges sex matters regardless of gender would be a vote for a minority party so what's the point?
But then I thought of the female people who suffered unescapable structural, cultural and legal belittlement, restriction and oppression because of the sex of the body they were born in (something a trans woman will never suffer). They fought so hard for the right of all the people with bodies like theirs to vote (something that their trans woman contemporaries, were there any, already had simply by virtue of their male birth sex).
And I thought no fucking way can I not vote. No fucking way am I letting the entitled delusions of a few selfish males stop me using the power those women fought for me to have.
And no fucking way am I using that power to support someone who can't see that female people should be able to define for themselves what being a woman is, to speak about their own experience of having a female body without being censured and censored, and to decide for themselves who they assemble with and who they don't.
My vote may not make a difference, but if I don't vote I am giving up responsibility and handing it to people I don't believe in anyway.
It's not neutral not to vote, it's saying you don't even care enough to lose.
So I went through the candidate lists to find the least worst, with anyone parroting TWAW instantly rejected.
And that's how Sadiq lost my vote.