Labour’s cynical shift on biological sex
The party is attempting to rewrite history.
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Hannah Barnes
Hannah Barnes is associate editor of the New Statesman and author of “Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children” (Swift)
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