"I will use female pronouns for some trans women. My rules are personal. I will call no male who commits a sexual or violent offence "she". But those who respect women, like Debbie Hayton, or those I meet in real life, I will respect. This will win me abuse on both sides: Stonewall would say the choice should not be mine; gender-critical ultras will cry traitor. But I reject all compelled speech. Using pronouns doesn't mean I no longer believe sex is real. I use them, in their original sense, as a courtesy. You can hold concerns about youth transition without screaming at a bereaved mother that her child was a boy."
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Esther Ghey (the mother of the Brianna Ghey, a murdered teenager who identified as female) was a guest in the Houses of Parliament at the time Rishi Sunak, in prime minister questions, attacked Labour leader Keir Starmer for his U-turns on who can be considered to be a woman and other issues. Ghey's murderers had recently been sentenced to life imprisonment.
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