I remember seeing this post soon after I peaked, in 2020 or maybe 2021. Back then it seemed as though we were hurtling towards everything in that post becoming reality. I'm in Scotland, where forthcoming hate crime legislation and gender recognition reform, pet projects of a majority SNP/Green coalition government, looked certain to go ahead with some of the consequences in carrot's post. There were men in women's prisons, and we hadn't yet had Isla Bryson in his pink leggings peaking the public. I woke up to the issue when a friend's grandson was being validated as 'trans' by his mother (my friend's daughter) and by the school, and she wasn't allowed by the family to ask questions about the consequences of pretending he was a girl. The fact that we've managed to push back on a lot of this is a magnificent testament to the grit and determination of women, especially those who were in it from the early days. Take a bow, all of you.
We've got a long way to go. Sandie Peggie's judgement, and Maria Kelly's, show that we've got a lot to do before the Supreme Court judgement is properly understood and upheld. Our Stonewall-soaked, rainbow-lanyarded workplaces, especially in the public and voluntary sectors, are still largely captured. Labour, then the party of opposition and now the party of government, has gone from gender ideologues calling the shots to a mixed economy, dominated now not by ideological extremism but by political cowardice from front benchers who understand the issues and don't want to confront them. But we've stopped the tanker from steaming in the wrong direction. Its progress has been halted, and we're in the process of turning it around. That's a much, much better outcome than it would have been without the wonderful women warriors, and it means that the 15-year prediction in Carrot's post, which looked inevitable at the time, is unlikely to come to pass.