Why can’t Stonewall’s ex-boss come clean about its trans obsession?

The few days since the publication of the Cass report – the probe into ‘gender identity’ services for young people – have been a revelation. The report, compiled by Dr Hilary Cass, has at long last, and so publicly it couldn’t be ignored, blown some of the gilt off the trans gingerbread, confirming that medical interventions on minors weren’t backed up by solid research. This has woken up some of the great and the good, who have finally realised that parroting phrases like ‘trans women are women’ might not have been such a wise idea.

One of those who used those four words beloved of activists was Education Secretary Gillian Keegan. Back in 2020, Keegan told her constituency LGBT Forum in Chichester that ‘trans women are women’. For that stance, PinkNews praised Keegan as a ‘rare LGBTQ+ ally in Rishi Sunak’s cabinet’. But following the report’s publication, the Tory minister sounded a more sceptical note: ‘We must not let the gender ideology of a small but vocal lobby push their agendas at the expense of young people’.