>> What a pe of old s***e. Identify how you wish, have whatever surgery you wish,
>> but you *are* male or female. It is not a matter of choice.
You're perfectly entitled to hold that view, a proposition recently endorsed by the Employment Appeal Tribunal:
tinyurl.com/v2kjcjyb (link to EAT website)
However at present the law allows Gender Recognition Certificates which can make the owner of a cervix legally a man. One such was interviewed on BBC R4's PM programme last night.
The point he made was that Sajid Javid was ignoring the legalities to make a cheap political point.
There's a real issue about safe spaces for women but it won't be solved by the absolutist line of Ms Duffield and others.
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