• THE new relationship and sex education in schools programme will get a new and bizarre twist as MPs attempt to stifle debate on transgender identity.

Apart from luminaries such as leadership contenders Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lisa Nandy backing expulsion from the Labour Party for non-compliance and subsequent concerns over transphobia, there has been a further definition from the women and equalities shadow secretary.

Dawn Butler speaking on Good Morning Britain, said: “What we can’t have is transphobia… If you’re saying a trans woman isn’t a woman, then there are issues around that.”

She continued: “Talking about penises and vaginas doesn’t help the conversation because then you’re saying that a trans woman isn’t a woman.” How clear is that?

It appears it won’t be long before Labour slip assignment at birth and gender identity into one packet, eliminating the principal factor that determines their sexual identity their sexual organs and will soon embrace the slogan that babies are born without biological sex.

Are toddlers prepared? How many five-year-olds are going to be confused over that?

TIM CLARK
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