The gender war is slowly being won. But there’s no room for complacency

For ten years, gender identity ideology ploughed through western societies. It started quietly, a decade earlier, when a group of human rights experts gathered in Yogyakarta, in Indonesia, and established gender identity as an innate human quality. They demanded that it must be protected in law and policy.

Their 2006 ‘Yogyakarta Principles’ probably passed most people by, but they prepared the ground for subsequent campaigns to enshrine gender identity in legislation. The outcome has been terrible. Women’s sex-based rights became unspeakable and second-rate males barged their way into female sport. Transsexual people like me never asked for any of this. We watched in horror as psychological conditions that had hitherto been met with sympathy were eclipsed by self-identified communities that demanded social justice.

Most egregiously of all, confused children became the subjects of poorly controlled and unethical experiments that risked interfering with their natural development.