Let me talk to you about this:
There is a phenomen in politics where issues that should be dealt with by mainstream politicians are neglected, leaving a vacuum in accountability.
That then tends to get filled with opportunistic extremists who take advantage of the fact that an issue is connecting with voter concerns - because there is a problem and then they manage to get airtime and space because of the failure of accountability of the main parties.
The best known example in recent years, has been the child abuse scandals in Rotherham and elsewhere.
It was noted that:
The failure to address the abuse was attributed to a combination of factors revolving around race, class, religion and gender—contemptuous and sexist attitudes toward the mostly working-class victims; lack of a child-centred focus; a desire to protect the town's reputation; and lack of training and resources.
What is notable about the concern about Self ID is the group of women, who come - often from a working class background or are non-white - who have been very firmly on the left in their politics their entire life. They've campaigned vigoursly for years about inequality and injustice on numerous subjects.
The issue here is NOT that they have aligned with the far right. The issue is that the mainstream political parties have neglected the subject and ignored public concerns in pursuit of their own agenda which is detatched from grass roots and accountability. It is NOT the women's groups who have changed their position and moved politically in anyway. It is the mainstream political parties that have decided that public concerns are not worth listening to and this created a political vacuum into which nefarious others have stepped knowing this will gain them support from disaffected voters. This goes much broader and deeper than purely about trans/women issues. Its about a breakdown in trust in the politicial classes on a number of issues and in the face of growing economic hardship.
Most of these women aren't actually interested in these charlatans coming in - they can see it for exactly what it is. A few will be attracted to it yes, but for the most part these women tend to stay in their own grouping and persue their own agenda.
The narrative on this needs to be firmly reframed into what it is: a dereliction of duty by those in power which has lead to a political vacuum which is being exploited by the far right. Women who were affected by this issue have remained constant and consistent in their views and have not changed their position. They've stood still politically whilst the political classes abandoned them.
The women who continue to fight for what they always have, have not become far right wing nuts. If you actually listen to the way they speak, and what they say - they use data analysis, they go out of their way to provide detailed information and provide evidence where they can to demonstrate the problem.
This is NOT how the far right operate. They appeal solely to emotion and use rhetoric. The difference is quited marked. Women have to PROVE something where as the far right use propaganda techniques repeatedly to appeal to the disgruntled.
I could invoke Godwin here to use another example. But I won't. Suffice to say its a repeating pattern, thats well known and being blamed on women, by the leftist political classes in an attempt to discredit them. The fact its coming particularly from the left, isn't a coincidence. Its coming from the left because its the left wing women trying to hold their own to account, and this shows up the inadequency of policy and this dereliction of duty that no one wants to take responsibility for.
Women are left with no option but to push on to expose the dereliction of duty, and that continues to empower the far right - not the other way around.
There is a very easy way for the left to deal with the far right here. It is for them to acknowledge the problem, to take control of the situation and to join calls for a massive inquiry into how we got into this fucking mess and are allowing the removal of safeguarding protocols which are putting women and girls - particularly lesbians and other minorities into a position which is endangering them and removing their ability to engage with society in a way which they had fought hard to gain in the first place.
We are in danger of reinstating the 'urinary leash' and forgetting the evidence that we have from other parts of the world where women don't have free and easy access to single sex toilets in the name of 'equality' and this faux argument about wanting to ban trans people from society. We KNOW that women are ALREADY self excluding as a result of this neglect of public interest and the imposition of hierachical dictate from above.
But obviously the trope about women aligning with the far right is much easier to swallow for the hard of thinking and deniers of accountability. Its simplistic tripe that fits easier in a thought terminating tweet.
Meanwhile, people (often women) who have historical knowledge and good understanding of data basis in science are uniting to document all this and will take every last fucker to court to demonstrate how they've dropped the bollock on this one. And they'll ultimately eventually win, because they are smart and funny and determined and about as far removed from the far fucking right as you'll ever likely to meet and because when reality makes contact with self ID you are going to get almightly scandals arise that will be impossible to ignore and trying to discredit them with this bollocks 'guilt by association' just won't wash anymore.
The political elite of the left are enabling the far right through their dereliction of duty. They abandoned the working class women. They abandoned the vulnerable and abused women. They abandoned minority women. They abandoned children. They abandoned women's sport. All because they signed up to the nonsense that a man dressed as a woman is ALWAYS below them in a victim hierachary of oppression, when the reality is very very different. And it will come back to haunt them.
I'm sorry, but anyone who comes up with this trope, is an ignorant wally who knows very little about very much at all.