Sir Keir Starmer is still in a muddle about the definition of a woman. You might think that, after his being widely ridiculed for refusing to say whether a woman can have a male appendage and asserting that it is not right to say only women can have a cervix, his advisors would have hammered out a line to take but, no, he is now causing yet more mirth and mockery for stating that 99.9 percent of women haven’t got a penis.
A biological fact is a biological fact and not all the political correctness in the world can change that. Women menstruate, carry children in their wombs, give birth and lactate. Men do not and cannot and no man can become a woman simply by declaring that he feels like one, nor vice versa.
Yes, there is a very small number of people, very small indeed, who genuinely feel that they belong to the other sex and who are prepared to undergo extensive medical and surgical intervention to do so but that is very different from simply declaring oneself to be of the opposite sex.
Hitherto the debate has centred on the obvious risk to women from housing male prisoners in female prisons, on the unfairness of biological males competing in women’s sport and on the embarrassment for both sexes of shared lavatories.
