I’ve found my soundtrack for spring: the caterwauling of fellas in dresses following text. It’s delicious. They’re raging about the ‘fascism’ of no longer being allowed to get their knobs out in the women’s changing room. They’re agonising over where they’re supposed to take a shit now. Their Adam’s apples are getting a mighty fine workout as they wail into the void about being ‘erased’ by ‘transphobes’. It’s the sound of men being stripped of their entitlements by women who’ve had enough of their crap, and I am so here for it.
No sooner had the Supreme Court said what even the Neanderthals knew – that men are men and women and women – than these blokes were fuming. First out of the traps was thin-lipped loon India Willoughby. He branded the court’s decision ‘evil’. Yes, it is apparently wicked and immoral to say that if you have a todger you’re a fella. Willoughby spent the day furiously doubling down on his delusions of womanhood. ‘I have always been a woman’, he said. Tell that to the jizz you sired your kid with.
It’s a ‘grim day’, they cry. The ruling threatens trans people’s ‘safety’, they say. That’s big talk from a movement that expects female prisoners to live cheek by jowl with rapists and girls to share changing rooms with hulking blokes in ill-fitting bikinis. There are dark mutterings about ‘fascism’. Munroe Bergdorf shared a post saying: ‘There is no trans debate. There are trans people and there are fascists who wish to dominate and eliminate trans people.’ Dude, it’s not fascism to say women should be free to seek rape counselling without fearing there’ll be a weirdo in a boob tube listening in.
Imagine the colossal levels of self-regard it must require to think it’s ‘fascism’ when you’re politely asked to use the right loo. It’s amazing how many of these ‘literal women’ sound like entitled men. Slandering TERFs as ‘fascists’ has been all the rage for ages, of course. Professor of gibberish Judith Butler calls gender-critical feminism ‘one of the dominant strains of fascism in our time’. It used to be alt-right wankers who called feminists ‘feminazis’. Now it’s nonbinary wankers. Two cheeks of the same arse.
Trans folk are hilariously cosplaying as civil-rights activists. The Supreme Court ruling is ‘very bleak’ but ‘we will carry on’, said Shon Faye, as if his march into women-only spaces were akin to MLK’s march on Selma. There are dire warnings about the ‘elimination’ of ‘transwomen’. Fellas, listen: no one’s saying you can’t exist. We’re just saying you can’t exist in women-only spaces. You can wear women’s clothing if you like – you just can’t take it off in front of actual women who’d rather not see your moobs and balls. It’s not complicated. It’s certainly not fascism.
There’s been the usual shite. One trans ally sneered at ‘the little ladies… nervously clutching their handbags [and] fumbling for their pearl necklaces’ over the prospect of seeing one of those ‘terrifying creatures with… a PENIS’. Yeah, you daft bints, why won’t you obediently behold the estrogen-shrivelled cock of every deluded man who intrudes into your spaces? I’m old enough to remember when we called this ‘flashing’ – now we’re meant to call it ‘trans rights’.
Some of the angry fellas say they intend to carry on going into women-only areas. ‘You will never stop me accessing female spaces. It is my right to use them’, says one. Not anymore it isn’t, you prick. Trans activist Charlie Craggs says it’s terrible that he’ll now be expected to ‘use men’s spaces’ alongside ‘predatory men’. How can TERFs sleep at night, he says, knowing ‘they’re sending transwomen into bathrooms with predatory men’. What depthless gall. The men who demanded that women throw open their changing rooms, refuges, swimming pools and sports to any bloke who fancied waltzing in are now blubbing that they’ll have to share spaces with those very same blokes. Honestly, what these people lack in XX chromosomes they more than make up for with brass neck.
Then, best of all, came ‘the allies’. Is there anything funnier than a fiftysomething public-school arse trying to stay relevant by saying ‘transwomen are women’? Barrister Jolyon Maugham – famous for killing foxes and losing cases – declared in his haughty headmaster’s drawl that the court’s ruling is ‘profoundly unfair’. LBC knob jockey James O’Brien asked TERFs how they feel being on the same side as Donald Trump on the trans issue. I don’t know, James, I think I’m happier being on the side of Trump than on the side of a movement that mutilates young lesbians, calls women cunts and puts rapists in women’s jails so they can rape more women.
It’s been a 24-hour temper tantrum, the hissy fit heard round the world. And I’m loving it. For while this noisy orgy of self-pity might doll itself up as a cry for civil rights, in truth it’s the death rattle of trans activism’s neo-misogyny. They know the jig is up, or very nearly up. They know the days are over when people with penises could say ‘I’m a woman!’ and get a nod of approval rather than a one-way ticket to the nuthouse. The sight of angry men bashing their keyboards in fury at the uppity bitches who went to the Supreme Court has exposed the truth about the trans lobby – it’s a men’s rights movement in drag.
The real reason they’re enraged about being booted out of women’s spaces is because they think the whole world should revolve around their made-up identities. They expect women to be the passive validators of their delusions, to bow, compliantly, to their presence in women’s spaces and their insistence on being women. When women withdraw their consent from this post-truth shitshow and say ‘NO’, the lie of their identity starts to crumble. That’s why men are angry – because women are revolting. It’s a story as old as time.
Brendan O’Neill is spiked’s chief political writer and host of the spiked podcast, The Brendan O’Neill Show. Subscribe to the podcast here. His new book – After the Pogrom: 7 October, Israel and the Crisis of Civilisation – is available to order on Amazon UK and Amazon US now. And find Brendan on Instagram: @burntoakboy
