UNTIL 2005 Lewis Moonie was Labour MP for my home town of Kirkcaldy in Fife. First elected in 1987, shortly before I moved away, Moonie made it to Westminster without receiving my vote, which instead helped the Conservatives stay ahead of the SNP. Not that he required my support: at the time, Kirkcaldy was one of many Scottish constituencies in which the Labour vote was said to be not counted but weighed, presumably on industrial-strength scales.
When the Fife constituencies were reorganised for the 2005 election, the then junior defence minister conveniently became a life peer, bequeathing his seat to neighbouring MP Gordon Brown by heading for the Lords. And there Baron Moodie of Bennochy (an area of Kirkcaldy) has remained, undetected on my radar until earlier this year when it was reported that he had been reprimanded by the Labour Party for ‘retweeting controversial posts on transgender issues’.
Before entering politics Lewis Moonie worked as a ‘psychiatrist and community medicine specialist’; in recent times the former medic has been unwilling to acquiesce in the fantasy that men can self-identify as women and vice versa. The doubting doctor instead espouses the increasingly heretical view that ‘trans women are men’ and ‘trans men are women’.
Each one as rare as hen's teeth. Each one based on reality, not magic. Trans women are men. Trans men are women. Each entitled to their own place in society not to usurp someone else's.
— Lewis Moonie (@Moonie_l) January 14, 2019
On his Twitter account Moonie self-identifies, in inverted commas, as a ‘Terf’ (trans-exclusionary radical feminist). He has cheerfully adopted what usually is a pejorative term and defends the preservation of single-sex spaces: ‘Trans people have the same rights as anyone else. What they don’t have is the right to force me to believe they acquire the sex they aspire to, nor to invade single sex spaces protected by the Equality Act 2010 unless they have undergone reassignment.’
Such opinion has become sacrilegious to the Left, which now decrees that Trans rights trump the entitlements and safety of women. LGBT Labour, who evidently prioritise the ‘T’, unsurprisingly took great delight in announcing ‘We welcome the suspension of Lord Moonie’, whom they accused of being multi-phobic.
We welcome the suspension of Lord Moonie, following the complaint we made about his anti-LGBT behaviour – the transphobic, homophobic and biphobic content he had regularly posted online has no place within the Labour Party.
Read our full statement below ? pic.twitter.com/NHVUiseoEe
— LGBT Labour (@LGBTLabour) May 15, 2019
Having learned he was to be suspended by Labour, this week Moonie ‘saved them the trouble’, resigning his party membership to ‘carry on campaigning for women’ as a crossbencher.
I’ve resigned from the Labour Party today. I was accused of transphobia by the usual suspects, and told I must attend a disciplinary hearing. My membership suspended too. Not really up to fighting it so I’ve saved them the trouble.
I feel free to carry on campaigning for women.— Lewis Moonie (@Moonie_l) May 14, 2019
Laura Perrins recently reported the case of Maya Forstater, who lost her job having stated the incontestable fact that ‘men cannot change into women’. The celebrants of Forstater’s misfortune had included Lily (formerly Liam) Madigan.
Statement from @labour @LabourStudents National Womens Officer about my case ? pic.twitter.com/OmTHR4B2Cq
— Maya Forstater (@MForstater) May 6, 2019
This charmless 21-year-old, an anatomical male who purports to be a woman, is in fact an elected official in the Labour party, previously having been ‘women’s officer’ for a branch in Kent and more recently the ‘woman’ representing Labour Students. ‘Anyone sensible left running my party must despair,’ observed Moonie, the qualified psychiatrist going on to describe malevolent Madigan, with whom he had previously clashed, as a ‘spiteful child with probable mental health issues’.
I suspect that anyone sensible left running my party must despair. In truth cynical politicians will be fully aware that no one gives a fuck what a nonentity like Madigan does. A spiteful child with probable mental health issues.
— Lewis Moonie (@Moonie_l) May 6, 2019
On his Twitter account, Moonie warns that he is ‘inclined to swear a lot’. Bad language is not to be encouraged, but it was perhaps understandable that Madigan’s gloating response to Maya Forstater should have prompted Moonie, with Fife frankness, to label loathsome Lily as a ‘wee shite’.
Much as I would expect from the wee shite.
The poor thing will be so jealous because Maya has raised so much money in her Crowdfunder.
Suck it up little loser.— Lewis Moonie (@Moonie_l) May 6, 2019
Lewis Moonie could not have imagined that, three decades after entering parliament, he would have to ‘carry on campaigning for women’ by defending female-only spaces from the intrusion of ‘aggressive exhibitionist heterosexual males taking advantage of single-sex facilities’.
More to the point too, it has nothing to do with genuine trans people, and everything to do with aggressive exhibitionist heterosexual males taking advantage of single sex facilities.
— Lewis Moonie (@Moonie_l) January 19, 2019
Had his principled resistance to the present Trans madness been foreseeable at the 1987 election, Lewis Moonie might even have received my vote.
