This shake-up in transgender rights overturns the foundational principles of our society

Justine Greening is a libertine cross-dressing as a conservative. The equalities minister wants a shake-up of trans rights that would make it far easier to change one’s gender…

Under Greening’s proposal, adults will be able to switch the gender on their birth certificate without a doctor’s diagnosis, while people who don’t think they have a gender at all can alter it to read “x”. Transgenderism will go from being a medical issue resolved privately in consultation with a doctor to a lifestyle choice endorsed by the state. It amounts to a cultural revolution – dreamt up and implemented without democratic endorsement and with precious little thought given to its effects…

If Greening gets her way, it’ll be much simpler for a man to redefine as a woman – winning the right to access women’s loos, women’s changing facilities, women’s hospital wards and, here’s where we get back to the awkward matter of biology, women’s sports…

It is no coincidence, I’m sure, that since 2014 the role of minister for equalities has been twinned with that of secretary of state for education. Shaping young minds makes the liberals’ long-term goals easier to achieve. For instance, the Children and Social Work Act 2017 imposes relationships education on children from the beginning of primary school up. What constitutes relationships education is up to the education secretary to decide – which just happens to be Justine Greening, the equalities minister. As guidelines are updated, it’s not unreasonable to infer and predict from her comments that tolerance of gender fluidity will be part of the package.