From the Telegraph - some sort of speech at the Tory conference:-
"Transgender people should not have the right to self-identify as a different gender without medical checks, the women and equalities minister has said.
Liz Truss, who holds the equalities brief alongside her role as Foreign Secretary, said “medical checks are important” in deciding whether people are legally transgender.
The Labour Party has called for a system of self-identification, which would allow transgender people to legally change their gender without a formal diagnosis of gender dysphoria.
Ms Truss said she agreed with comments by Rosie Duffield, a trans-critical Labour MP, who said that “only women have a cervix”.
“You see the absurdity of identity politics last week at the Labour Conference, which is ending up saying ‘women don't have cervixes,’ or whatever,” she told a recording of the Telegraph’s Chopper’s Politics Podcast at Conservative Party Conference yesterday.
“[Ms Duffield] is right, that women have cervixes.
“But more than that, she's also right to be able to express her view.
“I think when we try and brush things under the carpet and can't have an open, honest and sensible debate, I think that's a huge problem for British politics.”
'It wouldn't be right to have self-identification with no checks'
The current system for transgender people requires them to fulfil conditions to receive a Gender Recognition Certificate.
The criteria include a declaration that they will live permanently in their acquired gender, a doctor’s diagnosis of gender dysphoria and a medical report of any hormone treatment or surgery.
They must also have lived in their acquired gender for at least two years.
“I think we've taken the right approach with transgender people,” Ms Truss said.
“We've made the process simpler [and] we've made the process kinder.
“I have full respect for transgender people, however it wouldn't be right to have self identification with no checks and balances in the system.”