That’s true. Labour has gotten itself into a hell of a mess over the last few years on this issue and looked like clowns. Starmer and others have been asked embarrassing questions like „what is a woman” and given idiotic answers (my favourite was one who seemed to think troons got cervixes). It’s a distraction from the main game of winning an election.
There has also been internal division, which is a real problem when you’re fighting a general election. MP Rosie Duffield has been terfing publicly for a few years, which has earnt her the usual death threats. In the last few weeks a guy was convicted for making death threats to her and Queen Terf JK Rowling. Both Labour women, both victims of domestic abuse, both advocates of single sex spaces. So far, so normal. But it’s but also earnt her harassment, isolation and abuse within the party.
One of the few MPs to have supported Duffield when it was unfashionable is Wes Streeting, who is now in charge of Health ie. puberty blocker policy and single sex hospital wards, among other things. He is also gay. His view: "Men have penises, women have vaginas; here ends my biology lesson." Amen.
They’ve been held hostage by the TRAs for too long and can see where that’s gotten them: internal dissent and public ridicule. It’ll be interesting though to see if bored backbenchers start causing mischief over this now they’re safely in power.