Gender critical “feminism” has always been a broad church, the agreed starting point being that trans women are, in some way, a threat to women’s rights, women’s safety, and a threat to the safety of children. But when you start from this false premise you end up in strange places.

Having rejected the intersectional feminism of their sisters, they were desperate for allies, so each little step down the far-right rabbit hole never seemed that bad.

Some found themselves able to admire Posie Parker’s “bravery”, while others were able to compliment Graham Linehan’s “sacrifices” for the “cause”. Anyone who spoke out against “trans ideology” was acceptable, and the well documented path from “liberal” gender critical activist to fundamentalist conservative was all too often ignored.

But the far right has been part of the Posie Parker terrain for years; at the Robinson rally on Saturday she merely returned a few favours and possibly arranged some future muscle. For Graham Linehan it has been the opportunity, post Charlie Kirk, to push back against the liberal establishment, and then some, for daring to speak the truth.

It was not the case that the gender critical movement had fallen asleep with friends and woken up with monsters. The monster was simply part of the spectrum all along, and never part of the feminist tradition.

They now find their erstwhile allies consorting with those for whom attacks on women’s rights, cheering on genocide, misogyny and racism come as standard.

And although some have come to consider the support of Robinson, Trump, Kirk and Musk from high profile gender critical women “worrying” and “don’t understand why women would support far right extremists”, the silence from key gender critical players on Kirk’s misogyny and on the Robinson rally remains deafening. How can they ignore such a clear threat to women?

While Tommy Robinson is “cleaning up the streets”, Nigel Farage will be benefiting at the ballot box. Gender critical people may consider that the trans community will “undermine same-sex attracted people’s reality”, but Farage, the voice of Trump, is already laying the ground for a same sex marriage ban. Abortion Rights are next.

Meanwhile the gender critical movement are celebrating the success of their extremely expensive legal cases, frightening councils, and shouting at the NHS and the Scottish Government to “Obey the Law”.

OK, a few sisters have slipped seamlessly into the far-right Rabbit hole, but they remain anti-trans so that’s all right. And if they are assisting the transformation of a far right influencer from genocide supporting misogynist to free speech martyr? Well that’s outside of the gender critical narrative and they will just ignore it. Far-right rallies? Not our planet!

Admitting the existence of any far right violence would mean they would need to deflect from battering trans people; it might also upset their social conservative allies.  For them there can be no threat but the “trans threat”.