I say the following again because, while I understand people’s strong views on the matter, some of the language policing is getting a bit wearing.

As I’ve said multiple times, I do not believe that a person can be born in the wrong body and I don’t believe in gendered brains or souls. I believe the ideology that preaches such ideas is dangerous.

However, there are people in this world who want to present as the opposite sex for many diverse reasons – some of which I’m truly sympathetic to, others far less so – all of whom call themselves ‘trans.’ I use the word ‘trans’ in the full awareness that this umbrella term covers multiple groups who have nothing else in common with each other, such as straight men who enjoy cross-dressing for erotic purposes and young lesbians who, tragically, feel they’ll be happier without their breasts.

When I talk about sex-based rights, I use the word ‘trans’ to denote ‘people who wish to be seen or treated as the opposite sex’, no more or less. Telling me ad nauseam that ‘there is no such thing as a trans person’ isn’t overly helpful, because you’re trying to pull me into a different argument, on which I’ve already made my position clear.

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