OK the headline isn’t serious, but it got your attention. It also highlights a serious point about the politics of transgender rights which might have been missed over the Easter weekend. The Mail on Sunday this week carried an interview with Jacob Rees-Mogg. The paper didn’t make much of it, but it contained quite an important line:
He is uneasy about some aspects of the transgender rights debate.
‘If you have people who have no intention of changing sex but think it would be fun to go into the women’s changing room, we cannot ignore that.’
In other words, JRM is worried about self-identification, which the Government is – nominally – committed to exploring in a consultation. In a sense, there’s nothing striking about that: I know lots of MPs, Tory and Labour, who have such worries, though few dare say so right now.
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