by Josephine Bartosch, The Critic
Despite everything, British politicians have not accepted the realities of sex
Imagine you’re mid-flight on a passenger jet when turbulence strikes and the cockpit door swings open. You glance inside — only to find the pilot and co-pilot filming a TikTok dance.
This, in essence, was Monday’s Westminster Hall debate on Gender Self-identification. A group of preening left-leaning politicians treated Parliament not as a forum for serious deliberation, but as a stage for a self-indulgent performance. A crash seems inevitable.
The trans love-in, introduced by Liberal Democrat Dr Roz Savage, was triggered by a petition that attracted 120,000 signatures over six months. The Government’s official response was unambiguous: it has no plans to introduce gender self-ID. But the MPs on Monday behaved as if they hadn’t read the memo — or engaged with anyone beyond their bubble of smug.
For over a decade, women’s rights, child safeguarding and medical ethics have been destabilised by an ideology that insists that feelings trump facts. Campaigners, parents, and professionals have tried everything: letters, protests, court cases. Finally last month, air traffic control radioed in with clarity: the Supreme Court ruling confirmed that “sex” in the Equality Act means biological sex. You’d think this might prompt politicians to recalibrate. Not a chance, says Independent Rosie Duffield MP: