Trade deals

 At first sight trade deals don’t seem to have much to do with trans issues. And they don’t. But the reaction to their announcement in certain quarters seems to me to have a bearing. It helps to explain why trans deniers are so passionately illogical. 

Every time someone of a liberal disposition decries, say, a black person being killed by a policeman while being arrested, or notices that extreme weather events are occurring more frequently and glaciers are melting and that this just might be due to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the reaction from the Tories and Reform or the MAGA crowd in America is hysterical. You’re a lunatic left wing Marxist radical, or, worse, you’re “woke”. 

And so the recent trade deals, which are palpably to the benefit of the UK as a whole, is a “betrayal of Brexit”. 

These reactions aren’t logical, they haven’t been thought through. They’re a knee jerk reaction to anything that isn’t what George Orwell would have called “rightthink”. If you don’t support their orthodoxy then their rage is positively biblical. 

And so it is with gender ideology. To trans deniers it’s black and white. There’s no point in presenting the evidence, or drawing attention to the anomalies which arise from their binary view. 

Personally I like to think things through and work out which is the moral, logical position and argue accordingly. If that makes me a woke lunatic left wing Marxist radical, then maybe that’s not such a bad thing to be.