Reasons to be cheerful/not despair?

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Indulge me, I'm feeling a bit doomy this morning (and very sad to be so, because a few years ago I'd have been doing cartwheels about this result).

We're better off than we were five years ago, right?

We have the Cass Report.

We have Forstater and various other legal decisions, with more pending.

There's a conversation around the harms of medicalising confused children.

Gender ideology is more to the 'controversial' end of the scale than 'right side of history'.

No-one will ever unsee Isla Bryson.

What else? I know there's a long road ahead, but what other foundations do we have to stand on as we prepare to fight ALL OVER AGAIN?

My reason to be cheerful today:

I've noticed that my local Labour MP, who I respect as a hard working MP for our community follows lots of GC people and pages on X/twitter.

It gives me a bit of hope that even if Starmer wants to flipflop and be a disappointment, there may be a quiet group of Labour MPs who are gender critical and in favour of protecting women's rights.