"I simply don't see the issue... I see someone as a soul and as a person. I do not really care whether they have a male body." - Layla Moran, MP
Viewing this from the perspective of someone from the USA who spends a lot of time in the UK, this really perplexes me. The UK population includes people from all sorts of backgrounds whose views are extremely divergent, so how can a British MP who is supposed to represent her constituents believe that the only views & feelings that matter here are her own personal ones? It's like she doesn't get the basic concept of representative democracy.
Surely, quite a few of Moran's constituents "do see" & "do care" whether people have male or female bodies - especially in changing rooms, refuges, hospital wards & so on - for all sorts of reasons.
Also, "I simply don't see..." Isn't that basically what everyone said all along about Jimmy Savile & Gary Glitter? And many said for ages about Rotherham, Rochdale, Telford, Oxford, Newcastle...?
These of course are just rhetorical questions - from a citizen of a country which has plenty of clueless, autocratic politicians & many thorny problems of its own. No disrespect meant to anyone in the UK other than Layla Moran & her fellow travellers.