"They claim they're protecting women from #trans people. No, they're not. They're just using the opportunity of claiming they're protecting women to actually constrain the rights of women in the process of doing so" – @RichardJMurphy on fascism.
He's right to imply that the whole anti-trans movement is, if not fascist, at least fascism-adjacent. Yes, Joanna Cherry, I am looking at you.
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/06/29/its-time-to-talk-about-fascism/
Simon Brooke /
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