Mick Hartley

Powerful stuff from Lionel Shriver in the Spectator – Transgenderism proves people will believe anything:

The fad for transgenderism is unbelievable and should stay that way. This movement gleefully defies biological reality. Sex is not in the mind but is written in our every cell. ‘Some people are born in the wrong body’ is an absurd, medieval fiction. Because it’s impossible to change sex, transgenderism is merely a psychically, socially and financially expensive form of playacting. We’ve allowed a wicked but highly profitable industry to burgeon. Cynical, fanatical or criminally naive, its doctors impede and corrupt adolescents’ natural development into adulthood, butcher and amputate perfectly healthy body parts, destroy erotic function and systematically sterilise young people. Yet for at least a solid decade anyone objecting to this modern-day voodoo has courted infamy, ostracism and unemployment.