The Greens have succumbed to the gender ideology

-size: 11pt”>You might be forgiven for thinking this is just a parochial row within a party on the fringes of British politics. But it's more than that. Why? Because the intolerance at the heart of the Greens' gender debate is not only confined to this party. Worryingly, there are signs – in the Labour party, the Lib Dems, Plaid Cymru and the SNP – that such a one-sided debate is becoming the norm.

So how has this happened? Because some now think that standing up for science and – indeed – for the safety and protection of women is transphobic. It isn't. But those who make that point, like Bateman, risk being hounded, smeared and suspended. 

How has this happened? A large part of the answer lies with the way that special interest groups like Stonewall UK have managed to present themselves as trans experts, and positioned the debate to be about the progressive concerns of a down-trodden minority desperately trying to assert their rights, battling against an uncaring transphobic world. What they don't tell you is that these supposed rights not only require swallowing a belief in a load of absurd anti-scientific gender nonsense, but also come at the expense of woman and gays.