If you want to get a sense of the entitlement of the trans movement, then look no further than the farce that unfolded at a council meeting last night in Newham, east London.
Newham’s Green Party leader, Danny Keeling, stormed out of the meeting in a huff. He was supposed to be leading the opposition to the local Labour council’s budget, but his mind was apparently distracted by far more serious matters: two Labour councillors repeatedly referred to him using ‘he / him’ pronouns, and he identifies as a ‘they / them’.
According to the trans movement, there are few offences more vile than the failure to use a person’s preferred pronouns. This act of ‘misgendering’ is viewed as a direct assault on a trans or nonbinary person’s chosen identity and sense of themselves. And so it invariably invites a hostile response.
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