Truss’s policy speech on trans was an astonishing victory for common sense – and children’s rights

Apr 28, 2020 by Jill

by Rebecca Lowe, Conservative Home:

You’ve probably read about the speech Liz Truss gave last week, setting out her priorities as Minister for Women and Equalities.

Maybe not. If it weren’t for Covid-19, you definitely would have done: it was astonishing.

One justification for continuing to write and think about things aside from Covid is that other people certainly are.

In her speech, Truss made clear that she and her team are persisting with matters related to their brief, even though much has, understandably, been delayed.

This is reassuring not least because – as emphasised in previous Radical columns – there’s an alternative power-base that’s very much continuing its influential work.

This power-base is a lobby that writes sex/gender policy for public bodies; that receives funding for partisan projects at top-end universities; that threatens anyone speaking out against it, with accusations of hate crime and worse.

It’s a lobby that assumed – until Truss’s speech – that not only was it going to continue setting the agenda, and receiving state support to do so, but that the law would be changed to reflect its demands. Its proponents did not reckon on Liz Truss.

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