What a fantastic article. The whole thing was brilliant, but I particularly enjoyed this section:
What about the human rights of women suddenly threatened by the imposition of a dangerous male prisoner posing as woman but with male hormones coursing through his body? As always these days, it seems to be the minority that shouts the loudest that gets the most attention. Sadly this Conservative Government seems to be too open to the latest fashionable issues, keen to jump on any bandwagon they think will endear them to the liberal elite.
Lord knows why, these are not the people who vote for them. It is extraordinary that Theresa May's Government is seriously considering a Gender Recognition Act which would legitimise the process of gender self-identification. This flies in the face of all common sense and biological reality. Even after the process of surgical and hormonal reassignment, a human being born male will still be a man.
He may wish to change his name and dress differently and - in a civilised, tolerant society - there is no reason why we shouldn't treat him with courtesy in his new identity. But you cannot buck the scientific truth that he is still male despite his appearance. The transitioning process is not magic in which a man suddenly re-emerges as a female. If the Government backs this act, it may as well legitimise witchcraft too. It has about the same basis in reality.
IT IS also the thin end of a very fat wedge in which the Western scientific method is being undermined by the politics of desire. If I wish it so, it is so, is not the basis for any rational political decision. This is not the first time a male rapist has tried to exploit transgender claims to be sent to a female prison. In 2016 Davina Ayrton was convicted of raping a 15-year-old schoolgirl and yet, despite having no reassignment surgery, wanted to serve his eight-year sentence in a female prison.