How trans ideology took over

Amid the recent clamour to denounce JK Rowling for her sacrilegious utterance of the word ‘woman’ came some good news. A slipped-out government announcement revealed – at long last – some badly needed pushback to the demands of transgender activists. In a paper due to be published at the end of July, the government is expected to drop plans to allow transgender people to change their birth certificates without a medical diagnosis and to put in place new protections to safeguard female-only spaces such as refuges and prisons.

This is not before time. The drawn-out conflict between defenders of sex-based rights and believers in gender self-identification has benefitted no one. And, let’s not forget, this was a conflict largely prompted by a Conservative government. It was back in 2018, on Theresa May‘s watch, that the consultation to the Gender Recognition Act (2004) was launched, paving the way for gender self-identification and calling into question once taken for granted assumptions about biology, sex and what it means to be a woman.

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