What’s wrong with the British Left? It has to take feminism lessons from Donald Trump

Since the alternative was so dangerously the wrong thing to do, what Trump is doing with his “two genders” announcement is very straightforwardly the right thing. If the World Health Organisation suddenly decided that cancer should be treated only by leeches, the person reversing that decision would be rightly applauded.

The Democrats have handed Trump’s victory to him on a plate. Aside from the obvious – allowing Biden to run and then handing over to Harris, known for her pointless policies, poor communication and lukewarm record – the insistence that children can be transgender, and ‘“trans women” should be in women’s prison, may have been popular within the septum-ringed, multi-coloured hair community – but not far beyond it.

As numerous courageous individuals bring legal cases against employers, local authorities, public institutions and governments on the gender ideology front, it is now clear that the world is slowly regaining some collective sense. Everybody – including old-fashioned sexists and traditionalists like commentator Matt Walsh, and Trump himself – knows that “trans women are women” is a blatant, barefaced lie.

Which leads me to the obvious: the President still doesn’t get it. He may well know how to play to his audience, and win round the electorate on key issues such as law and order, immigration and gender madness, but he still conflates sex and gender.

Of course the British government should acknowledge that there are two sexes, male and female, because it is a fact. There should be no men in women’s prisons, changing rooms, refuges, rape crisis centres, hospital wards or any other single-sex facility or organisation. The ruling from Australia on Monday, that it is illegal to advertise a public event as women-only, means that lesbians can’t have any lesbian-only spaces any more, because some bloke could insist on being one himself, and take them to court.

Swathes of single-issue campaigners – those who focus all their attention on the transgender issue – are expressing delight at Trump’s presidency, claiming that his statement is a big win for the world. Several “I told you so’s” have already been aimed at those who have – rightly, in my view – denounced Trump for his horrendous treatment of women, and don’t trust him one inch to do the right thing for women.

The “two genders” executive order may well mean that men will not end up in women’s prisons, which I applaud. Unfortunately, under his presidency, it is likely that very few rapists will end up in any prison at all – because Trump is no friend to women.

Any woman who reckons he’s done this because he cares about us needs to think again: the President’s record on women is appalling. In 2016, Trump called for an abortion ban with “some form of punishment” for women – which was too extreme even for many anti-abortion activists. He doesn’t like gender ideology in exactly the same way as other misogynists don’t like it – because women should be in the kitchen, barefoot, preferably pregnant, and men are men and women are women, in the most traditional and regressive way.

The fact that Trump will throw out the baby with the bathwater is entirely the fault of the Democrats, aided and abetted by extreme gender ideologues and Black Lives Matter grifters. And along with the lunacy, some of the measures in place to protect against actual discrimination (the kind that’s based on material reality) will go too.

Those of us on the Left have been railing against identity politics in Britain, warning the Labour government that voters will drift away in disgust unless it gets its house in order. Trump’s election is a stark lesson – and it’s one that neither the British nor (for what it’s worth) the American Left has learnt.