Never forget the politicians who pushed gender politics

The great trans hoax is coming to an end. The idea of thousands of people being ‘trapped’ in the wrong body is an interpretation of gender dysphoria that is increasingly being seen as damaging nonsense. The invasive treatment regimes, particularly for teenagers, carried out by the NHS, are unravelling too. And so is the claim that women don’t need protected spaces, separate from biological males. Giving campaign groups such as Mermaids and Stonewall influence in setting public policy in this area is looking more and more like the terrible mistake that many of us have long argued it was.

Here is the rub: the facts always pointed quite straightforwardly to gender fluidity ideology being a load of old rubbish, to use the fitting technical term. There is a famous clip of the Labour peer and former test tube baby pioneer Dr Robert Winston setting out the basic science on an episode of BBC Question Time in 2021.