Letter to the Times from Maya Forstater:
Sir, I was disappointed that your detailed coverage (Jun 11) of the Liberal Democrats’ general election manifesto did not include any reference to the party’s major proposals relating to sex and gender. The Liberal Democrats’ pledge to introduce gender self-ID, so that anyone is allowed to “change sex” by simply stating that they are the opposite sex, is highly controversial.
The party also proposes to legally recognise non-binary identities (people who believe that they are neither man nor woman) within the Gender Recognition Act. This would ride roughshod over decades-old legal provisions to protect women’s rights, which are based on recognising that everyone is either male or female.
The Lib Dem proposals are based on the fringe ideological belief that being male or female comes down to feelings about what sex you would like to be rather than what kind of body you have — and they would be disastrous for women’s rights.
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