It's heartbreaking the Guardian (the only UK newspaper that is capable of real journalism) is so virulently anti-trans. What distinguishes UK transphobia is that it's thriving in "progressive" spaces. That's the influence of a certain children's books author that was (is?) prominent in these spaces

People change. But if I was a bigoted ass a mere four years ago and I was trying to be better, I would be a lot more humble and introspective. He doesn't seem either of those things.

Isaac Butler suggested to read Tony Kushner's On Pretentiousness alongside this essay, and that's a mighty good idea.

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The current Labour government is shit in many other ways but I don't think they would be virulently and passionately transphobic without her.

One of the reasons her transphobia has caused so much harm in the UK is that in the Before Times, she was centre-left. These were her people, her friends. Her transphobia was not dismissed out of hand in those circles, and it infected the centre left.

This headline is not The New Yorker's. The headline is "What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

In 2015 James Graham wrote a play called The Vote, set at a polling station the evening of an election. It played at the Donmar London, super short run and starry cast, Judy Dench among them. Then the night of the UK election, May 7th, it was broadcast live on tv, the exact time the play was set.

There is a version of this where they provide plenty of gender neutral facilities and have a tiny closet for what I call now terf toilets. Hope this is the way it goes down in most places. I, a cis woman, don't feel safe in the terf toilets any more.

Is this available to listen after the event?

That's a great interview but there is a typo: the year they both starred in off broadway musicals and became friends is 2007, not 2017.