Gender self-identification will be back, and we need to have our arguments permanently to hand.
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 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”.
“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.”
No one is “born in the wrong body”. Women-only spaces must be defended, including in sport. And the “gender reassignment” of children and adolescents must be resisted.
Depending on local circumstances, in each constituency at the next General Election there should be one Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat or Independent candidate who subscribed to this and this. The complete list of those candidates would appear here, and anywhere else that we could get to publish it.
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No-one had ever heard of this idea before this government came along, it's neoliberalism in excelsis. Liz Truss is one of the most neoliberal members of the Cabinet but she's been worn down by a campaign by Julie Bindel, Beatrix Campbell, Selina Todd, Linda Bellos, Lucy Massoud, Jennifer James, Venice Allan, Suzanne Moore, Janice Turner, Ruth Serwotka, Laura Pidcock, J.K. Rowling, Maya Forstater, Allison Bailey, Paul Embery (he voted for Corbyn all four times), George Galloway and the Morning Star. Socialism is based on material reality and this time it won.
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