Two Angry Men

What do a KC and a Violent Convict Have in Common?

My previous piece documented the more hilarious side of the responses to the UK Supreme Court ruling. This piece looks at the darker side. The activists have moved from “denial” to “anger.” The fiercest expressions of fury come from the two extremes of the gender identity movement – one is perhaps the most disreputable trans-identifying man in the country, a 56-year-old man who spent most of his life in prison, the other a King’s Counsel who was until around 2019 a respected barrister. Each has developed his own flavor of unhinged aggression.

On May 25th, around ten bare-chested trans-identifying men demonstrated outside Downing Street. They held up placards with the question: “Man?” – bizarrely suggesting that their hormone-induced gynecomastia somehow cast doubt on the fact that they were all very obviously male

They may have been a bit chilly, but the little tableau had its chilling aspects for the rest of us. First, the spokesman wielding the microphone (pictured above with sunglasses) was the convict Sarah Jane (Alan) Baker (age 56), who served 30 years in diverse prisons for kidnap, torture and attempted murder. In prison he “identified” as a woman at some point and cut off his testicles with a razor. In 2023, not long after his release, he told a crowd of gender identity enthusiasts: “If you see a TERF, punch them in the fucking face” – for which he was briefly recalled to jail, having violated parole conditions. The new message this sublime representative of the “trans rights” movement chose to shout into the microphone in front of his male companions was: “Be afraid of us!” This new mantra of the “trans rights” movement is clearly not aimed at capturing hearts or minds. While I assume (at least I hope) that thousands of trans-identifying men and women will have viewed this spectacle, this choice of spokesman, and this slogan with unmitigated horror, they are mostly silent – and therefore complicit.