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Gender ideology has been a disaster for working-class women

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23.01.2026

There have been two huge victories for workers’ rights over the past week. And yet the left is schtum. No champagne corks are popping. No raised fist emojis have appeared on lefty social media. I bet no Labour-backing luvvie has plans to make a tear-jerking movie about this stirring triumph for working people.

No Labour-backing luvvie plans to make a tear-jerking movie about this stirring triumph for working people

We all know why. It’s because the victors are women, and more importantly they’re women who demanded that most scandalous right – the right to their own spaces, the right to undress away from men. The left is saying nowt – and in fact is probably seething – because it hates nothing more than an uppity broad who says sex is real and women matter.

The first big win was for the Darlington nurses. These are the eight nurses who bravely challenged the County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust for making them share a changing area with a male who identifies as a woman. It is an appalling assault on our privacy and dignity to make us share an intimate space with a man, the nurses argued. And they won.

A tribunal ruled that the NHS Trust had ‘unlawfully harassed’ the nurses by making them share a changing room with a ‘biological male trans woman’.........

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