A Labour party deputy leadership candidate has said babies are not born with a sex and that talking about biological reality is “dog whistle transphobia.”
Dawn Butler, Labour’s shadow secretary for women and equalities, takes equality seriously, in a speech to the PinkNews Awards, she defended “the teaching of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues in schools”. That is stale news for the media. But Ms Butler extended the ambit of her claim to include giraffes and made headlines. Giraffes? […]