This insults real trans women too

ANOTHER example of our twoplus-two-equals-five world. After highlighting the appalling case of a woman raped on a single-sex ward by a trans woman, Baroness Nicholson, right, was told the assault could not have taken place ‘because there was no male on the ward’.

Fortunately, CCTV and witnesses told a different story. Meanwhile, in America, a previously jailed double murderer who ‘recently identified as a woman’ was arrested after a woman’s head was found in his home. I know I should say ‘her’ but I won’t – because men who rape and kill women should not be allowed the final insult of self-identifying as the same sex as their victims.

Yes, some may call me a bigot, but I’m afraid this insanity is in the interests of nobody, not least real trans women who, I’m pretty certain, would not want to be associated with such evil.

The problem with selfidentification – as promoted by Nicola Sturgeon and other woke politicians too cowardly to address these difficult and uncomfortable arguments – is that it opens the door to all kinds of abuse that benefits no woman, trans or otherwise.