Westminster’s tortuous battle with the gender question

What is a woman?
In recent years it is a question that has caused political punch-ups, party splits and despatch box spats.
A complex, emotionally charged and fiercely contested argument around gender, trans rights and women’s sex-based rights has often left politicians at Westminster floundering to answer a seemingly straightforward question.
Today’s Supreme Court ruling may, just may, calm a political row that has produced all sorts of verbal contortions, particularly from Sir Keir Starmer.
Appearing on the BBC’s Question Time election debate in June last year, the Labour leader said he agreed with former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s comment that “biologically, a woman is with a vagina and a man is with a penis”.

Source: BBC | Language: English