There’s a deeper trick here. He calls respectful coverage of trans lives “bias,” then demands “balance” by platforming anti-trans voices (ignoring that BBC policy won’t allow trans voices without GC ones too!)

That’s the same old “I’ve been silenced because I can’t be transphobic on air” routine.

I hope so, I really do. And thank you for your tireless campaigning to make that happen. But it makes me sick to think of the kids we will lose on the way - kids for whom PBs were a lifeline who have now had that ripped away purely to satisfy a tiny number of powerful bigots.

People who pretend their transphobia is rooted in a concern for women's safety can now congratulate themselves that they have taken away a system which helped to identify men likely to commit violent assaults against women and could be used to prevent those assaults. Drink your champagne, ladies.

What a absolute shambolic waste of time, money and effort the whole LLF process has been. Honestly, I despair.

Oh shit. I hadn't seen that. You're absolutely right, and I am absolutely wrong. "no substantive change to teaching or doctrine is to be pursued at this time". Fuckadoodledoo.

Will take my optimistic thread down. And, once again, seriously consider whether I can stay in the CofE.