No They Aren't - Certainly Not In The Way YOU Mean, Keir.

Sir Keir Starmer: Pro-trans laws are needed across UK.

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ByHayley Dixon, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTBLOGGER: IN MY WIDER FAMILY, THERE IS A YOUNG CHILD WHO WAS BORN HERMAPHRODITE. AS I UNDERSTAND IT, DECISIONS WERE TAKEN WHICH LED TO OPERATIONS AND HE IS NOW FULLY 'SORTED'. EXCELLENT. THIS WAS AN ESSENTIAL SITUATION FOR MEDICAL INTERVENTION.THERE GENUINELY ARE SUCH SITUATIONS AND I USED TO BE REMARKABLY SYMPATHETIC TO PEOPLE BORN WITH PROVABLE PROBLEMS REGARDING GENDER - INDEED, I STILL AM.BUT, MEDICALLY SPEAKING, OPERATING ON PEOPLE - AT PUBLIC EXPENSE - BASED ON 'FEELINGS' WHICH ARE CONTRADICTED BY THEIR DNA SEEMS REPREHENSIBLE. THAT WE THEN HAVE TO KOWTOW TO THEIR 'CHOICES' AND ARE EXPECTED TO JOIN IN THE PRETENCE OF IMAGINED GENDER IS EVEN WORSE.TO PERMIT AND ENCOURAGE YOUNG CHILDREN TO FOLLOW THIS NONSENSE IS DIABOLICAL IN ORIGIN.DISGUISING ALL THIS AS 'COMPASSION' IS DESPICABLE.