Mick Hartley

And now the Science Museum, of all places:

The Science Museum is set to alter its Boy or Girl? display following complaints over a “lack of mention of transgender”.

Curators will make changes to a gallery covering human biology in order to “update (the) non-inclusive narrative”, it can be revealed. 

A display on sex characteristics titled Boy or Girl? has received complaints “due to the lack of mention of transgender”, according to internal documents, and there are plans to make alterations to the exhibit which asks “how are boys and girls different?”

The Science Museum has confirmed that work has begun to review the exhibit covering subjects including hormones and chromosomes, and has stated that all such reviews “take into account new scientific and curatorial research and visitor feedback”.

Internal documents state that there was “action to consult the Museum of Transology” – which bills itself as the largest collection of transgender’s people’s artefacts – in relation to the Boy or Girl? exhibit.

It's the Science Museum, ffs. It's meant to inform its visitors on the subject of science, not provide a nice woolly and inclusive comfort blanket for the permanently sensitive trans community. 

Maya Forstater, executive director of campaign group Sex Matters and winner of a prominent employment tribunal relating to her “gender-critical” views, said:  "The Science Museum should reflect biology.”

She added: “Sexual reproduction evolved over one billion years ago and it has not changed in recent years.  

“It is the reproductive strategy of all higher animals and plants, including humans. 

“Helping visitors of all ages to understand this is core to what the Science Museum should be doing.”

“It is concerning that a place dedicated to science is being swayed by cultural trends in this way."

Boy or Girl? had previously been altered to remove a sign which stated “your X and Y chromosomes define your biological sex” following complaints in 2016.

So the museum has already showed a willingness to compromise its scientific remit to placate its trans critics. But not far enough, apparently.