Lisa Nandy could not have been more wrong when she waded into the transgender debate this week. The Labour MP, who has been criticised by JK Rowling over her stance on trans rights, said that ‘when we look at the way we reduce the debate to things like bodily parts, I think when we look back in history we will be utterly ashamed of ourselves.’
Those of us who understand that human beings have bodies, and those bodies matter, have no need to feel ashamed of anything, now or in the future. Men and women have a sex and, in some contexts, we need separate services because of that sex. What’s more, our children need to know that they cannot change their sex. These are the truths that we have known since the dawn of time. Unfortunately too many politicians and policy makers have been blinded to them.
Nandy said that criticism from JK Rowling broke her heart
The Tories are not immune from criticism; it was a Conservative chair of the Women and Equalities Select Committee, Maria Miller, who started
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