On 14 November, Adnan Hussain of the Independent Alliance of MPs stepped away from the Your Party steering process. Your Party supporters have previously accused Hussain of transphobia, leading to reactions like the following:
oh no, they lost the transphobic landlord, how ever will the project continue… https://t.co/NfIfLpZWN1
— Ben Smoke (@bencsmoke) November 14, 2025
Now, Independent Alliance MP Iqbal Mohamed has defended Hussain’s past comments, drawing transphobia accusations of his own.
Your Party suggesting a ‘third space’
Maryam Jameela wrote the following for the Canary on 7 September:
Both Corbyn and Sultana have been rare shining lights in British politics over the last few years. At the Canary we’d love nothing more than for whatever Your Party becomes to be successful. We have the same values, the same politics, and the same goals.
So, when we say the following it’s in the spirit of wanting to work together to have better futures for the people that have been abandoned by mainstream politics: Your Party has a transphobia problem brewing and it must be addressed.
In that article, she highlighted messages from Hussain including the following:
As Jameela noted:
It has become a transphobic talking point to consider trans people a threat to cis women’s spaces. Hussain’s easy agreement with this moral panic is extremely worrying.
Hussain’s argument that ‘socially conservative’ Muslims should be free to hold transphobic views was not shared by a majority of potential Your Party supporters, it turned out. And importantly, people on the left are not supportive of the same argument in reverse.
A recent example of this was when trans essayist Contrapoints issued a statement in which she criticised the left for vociferously opposing the Palestinian genocide. In that post, she admitted her feelings were driven in part by the fact that she’s a trans woman, as she believed the pro-Palestinian movement made it impossible for the genocide-overseeing Kamala Harris to win the 2024 election — ultimately resulting in the aggressively transphobic Trump seizing power.
How did the left respond?
They certainly didn’t respond by saying trans people should have space to diminish the West’s collective responsibility for an Islamophobic genocide.
For the most part, leftists told Contrapoints that you cannot pick and choose which groups deserve human rights, and that if Kamala Harris didn’t want to lose the 2024 election, she should have pledged to end Israel’s genocide — something she could have achieved with a phone call once she became president.
‘In logic or law’
Iqbal Mohamed has now suggested he holds the same opinion as Adnan Hussain:
advocating trans people need to be segregated off into third spaces is transphobic iqbal.
— Ben Smoke (@bencsmoke) November 14, 2025
replace words ‘trans people’ with black people or muslims + argue that advocating they use facilities segregated from the rest of society isn’t racist
it’s not british law, even if it was, wouldn’t mean it wasn’t transphobic. plenty of law through history has been wrong.
— Ben Smoke (@bencsmoke) November 15, 2025
This is how people responded:
2 out of 5 “Your Party” MPs are now explicitly transphobic.
Both Adnan Hussain and Iqbal Mohamed have now called for trans people to be banned from single-sex spaces. pic.twitter.com/L4X8YU8Rqb
— Stats for Lefties
(@LeftieStats) November 15, 2025
okay that’s it i literally cannot defend Your Party any longer – it’s MPs are addicted to coming online to remind trans people that their socialist vision of the future involves trans people being outed in public or forced into spaces that endanger us! https://t.co/SyjvaIO29W
— babey
Notes, there is not even an argument that this wouldn’t be segregation – the soft lie used to make this a seemingly permissible position. This is a pro-segregation position. https://t.co/acqHjYQ5zp
— GlumBird (@GlumBird) November 15, 2025
We should note that Mohamed didn’t explicitly say he agrees with Hussain. We approached Mohamed to ask him to clarify his position, but have yet to receive any response.
Novara, meanwhile, has reported that Mohamed may have already been on his way out:
Novara Media is reporting that Iqbal Mohamed also doesn’t want to be a member. https://t.co/YCwnoiZhe3 pic.twitter.com/4EJq1292ek
— tombricks
(@tombruhcks) November 14, 2025
Featured image via Iqbal Mohamed
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