What better way to side-track the liberal left from their main goal of relieving poverty and opposing capitalism than by promoting an imaginary dogma of oppression? There’s a reason why corporate power and public sector influence has swung behind the campaign for trans rights. If you can convince sincere and well-motivated people that this is the moral crusade that defines the age then you can be left relatively undisturbed to amass your profits.

And what better way of doing this than by conjuring up an ethereal and contrived suite of slogans and declarations: trans rights are human rights; love is love?

Of course trans rights are human rights, but when they’re pursued at the expense of women’s rights then they can become diktats to be wielded against working-class women who have neither the power, nor the material resources to resist. Or to bludgeon the reputation of other women who refuse to accept the fiction that there are more than two sexes and that a woman can have a penis.

Love is love, we’re told. Well, football is football and cars are cars. Love is more than a catchphrase that handily fits into a single line on a banner. Love can mobilise nations and end wars. It forms families and becomes their last refuge when the state and law of the land turn against you. Love provides hope for the sick and the infirm and the oppressed. Love is delight and heartache. It’s worth fighting for and dying for. But love can’t exist without truth.

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