A Core Component

There can be up to nine candidates for Leader of the Labour Party. There will not be that many, and the Left will win once the members have their say. But I love the idea that Keir Starmer might defeat eight women.

All the usual suspects would then take to the airwaves to insist that, "Of course we would have loved to have had a woman Leader, but not this woman, or this woman, or this woman, or this woman, or this woman, or this woman, or this woman, or this woman."

Sir Keir, however, could preclude this by choosing to identify as a woman. After nine years of Conservative Government, you could then lose your job, with worse penalties to come very shortly indeed, if you did not recognise him as such.

I proudly repeat the words of Maya Forstater: "Sex is a biological fact, and is immutable. There are two sexes, male and female. Men and boys are male. Women and girls are female. It is impossible to change sex. These were until very recently understood as basic facts of life by almost everyone." Do your worst.

If a scientific fact as basic and as obvious as biological sex can be denied, then so can any other scientific fact, to the ruin of human progress. It is contrary both to the whole history of human experience, and to the plain facts of biological science, to suggest either that sexual orientation is fixed, or that "gender" is "fluid".

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