Identifiable

This very day, Harvey Weinstein could self-identify as a woman. And then, what? Should he be sent to a women's prison? We can win this one, you know. If we hold our nerve, then we can win this one. Deep down, everyone really knows that we are right.

It has been pointed out to me that old guard lesbian feminists were at least as likely to be found on the Conservative benches as anywhere else in the House of Commons, and that those who would insist on matching penis ownership as a minimum requirement for subcultural admission were very considerably more so.

Nevertheless, I tend to think that any Conservative opposition to gender self-identification, and none has yet been expressed, will come, not from Christmas and Easter churchgoers, but from people who held very specific religious beliefs that were now peripheral to British society and culture. There will be far more Labour abstainers, and possibly more Labour opponents, than there will be Conservatives in the Division Lobby against what will have to be this Government Bill.

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