IN 1980S LONDON ONE COUNCIL DECIDED THAT as gay men are oppressed, they must all be good. The results were catastrophic. Today most British institutions are similarly treating trans women as a sacred caste. Is nothing learnt from such safeguarding disasters?
Westminster’s prevention of Royal Assent is all that stopped Scotland’s gender recognition reforms allowing any man to legally become a woman by self-identifying as one. Despite their stance that “transwomen are women”, transactivists and politicians, including the former First Minister of Scotland repeatedly refused to state whether the trans woman Isla Bryson, a convicted rapist, is in fact a woman. “What’s relevant is that the individual is a rapist,” said Nicola Sturgeon when pressed for an answer.
“I don’t believe Isla Bryson is truly, and genuinely, a trans woman,” said SNP leadership candidate Humza Yousaf to Sophie Ridge on Sky News, when asked about Sturgeon’s disastrous attempts to pass the law on self-identification. “I think they’re trying to play the system for personal