De Grunwald attended the recent Stonewall conference. (The same one Maya Forstater went to) And she had a fascinating talk on the surreal experience. One of the many odd things was they had no sessions that discussed the SC ruling. Zero. And not only that, they wouldn’t even address it directly. It was the ‘thing that must not be named’, alluded to but hovering in the background. She went on to say:
“I didn't really feel anybody had mentioned the word trans or non-binary at any point. It was LGBT, and even that wasn't really discussed. What there was, instead, was an awful lot of emphasis on race. And I think there was a lot of conflating racial prejudice with LGBT discrimination. “
Levi Pay (who worked for Stonewall in the 90s also had an interesting observation on how the nature of the advocacy change), the other person in the conversation remarked:
“The race thing is interesting. I'm seeing a lot of it on LinkedIn and elsewhere – the practice of using of other issues to further promote trans equality. So it's the kind of: segregation is wrong. And so, in the context of sex it's also wrong to stop men going into women and girls' changing rooms. It's a kind of logical leap in the hope that the vibe around segregation in a race context is so strong that it will carry the argument across. And that's not just a race thing, we hear intersex people being used. We hear the about butch women who are being harassed as a result of the backlash, and there's always this kind of using of other people who aren't the people we're talking about in order to somehow win this argument. “
That's really the parasitism of the TR movement in a nutshell. The billboard is a visual exemplar of it in all its manipulative glory.