Liz Truss, currently serving as UK Secretary of State for International Trade, President of the Board of Trade, and Minister for Women and Equalities, photographed in 2013.
In the midst of a COVID-19 pandemic and a series of massive protests over racist police brutality in the United States, one might find it hard to believe that an author's common-sense views on human biology would make headlines. Yet everywhere you look, you'll see coverage of Harry Potter author
J.K. Rowling, who's now being denounced as "transphobic" for speaking
plain truths about the differences between men and women.
In fact, so much attention has been focused on Rowling that some have missed the more significant British news in this area: The country's Conservative government is distancing itself from proposed legislative reforms that would have enshrined gender "self-identification" over biological sex. Though Liz Truss, Minister for Women and Equalities, likely won't be releasing the government's policy response till July, leaks confirm that "self-ID" (as it's widely known) will
not be introduced. Moreover, Truss says she wants to protect gender dysphoric children from making "
irreversible decisions" in regard to their bodies, and would allow women to create and maintain safe
single-sex spaces free of male-bodied individuals. This is a huge win for so-called "gender-critical" activists, who lack the deep pockets and institutional influence of the far more fashionable trans-rights lobby — even if there is still a long way to go to repair the damage that's already been done.
Comment: Sadly, this isn't the first time we're learned about a psychopath impersonating a physician and inflicting injury or death on hapless victims: