In Liz We Truss?

There are two sexes, and a small number of individuals within them with disorders of sexual development. There are people with genuine gender dysphoria who may find peace by medically transitioning, there are a growing number of teenage girls for whom it has become a way to try to identify out of the pressures of growing up female in a porn and image saturated culture, like anorexia a generation before, and who do not have the pop tribes our generation had to escape the 'male gaze' or safely experiment with identity within, there are effeminate boys with homophobic parents who want to change them (I have one of these in my extended family), and there are fully intact heterosexual males with a sexual fetish who are turned on by wearing 'feminine' clothing, going into female spaces or being 'sissified' during sex. It is the latter who are now some of the loudest, most demanding and threatening voices online and increasingly at demos. All these very different types of people have been recently grouped together under one word 'trans' and Labour needs to understand that and unpick that so we can discuss this subject properly, especially when it comes to 'self-ID' and all the issues that cascade from that, and very pressingly addressing the issue of what's driving the surge in numbers of teenagers. Once upon a time, the Left would have been championing whistleblowers and asking questions about the driving forces and the huge profits being made by commodifying children's bodies and teenage distress in this way. Starmer saying "we shouldn't say that", trying to shut down discussion, and misrepresenting the legal definition of a woman, is not the way to make progress.