In a massive policy pivot, the Labour leadership has, in principle, agreed to change its position on gender self-ID and is recommending that it should not be possible for either sex to legally change gender without medical support.
Anneliese Dodds, Labour party chairman, today declared that “sex and gender are different” and that a medical diagnosis will be needed for transgender people to receive treatment on the NHS. Writing in The Guardian, Dodds admitted that Labour’s new position would “not please everyone.”
