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What about the culture wars?

The Power Test

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The Politics of Self-Id

Gender critical feminism used to be a very small movement here and has sort of exploded. I think that there have been casualties all along the way on both sides of that argument vulnerable people being hurt, she says. Labour ended up at a position of being trans inclusive but also reaffirming exemptions under the Equality Act for single-sex spaces. For me what politics should be about is about engendering a sense of the humanity and the consequences of playing this up for sort of cheap votes or cheap point scoring because people are getting hurt he adds.

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