Oh, and one more thing, though not putting it in this thread because it's a somewhat different issue. But it honestly seems transphobia just doesn't really work as an electoral mobilising or demobilising "culture war" the way Brexit and immigration somewhat do. People just don't seem to care.
OK here goes.
Obviously, the big story is the Labour landslide, but a win of that size was only really possible due to the fragmentation of the right. At the same time, while on these results they're unlikely to care much, Labour underestimated the susceptibility of the left to fragment too. 1/
The anti trans movement can do a lot with institutional capture. The Cass report has utterly normalised anti gender affirming care for youth talking points. Challenging that requires pushing back against some loud interests. Doubt there’s any appetite for that
No doubt, a lot of damage has already been done, and there's unlikely to be any Labour desire to reverse it on their own initiative any time soon. Improvement will unfortunately likely take years of lower level activism.
I'm not as ... optimistic seems the wrong word... as Mumsnet on Harman as Chair of the EHRC but if that is who it ends up being I think that would at least stop things continuing to get worse in the same way going forward and help /enable/ improvement
She's said some pro trans rights things, but AFAIK all of that was back when the factional lines were very different and I've been burned on people shifting since then before (see: R. Duffield).
But doesn't seem at all brainwormed on it and does seem focused on actual women's rights issues, so....
