For a country famed for its modesty and reserve, the UK does seem to have found itself having an awful lot of conversations about genitalia before breakfast. I’m talking, of course, about the latest “gotcha” trend of posing questions to senior politicians about whether or not women can have penises, in what has become an increasingly acrimonious row about trans rights.
Couple that with the nightly social media pile-ons directed at anyone who dares to offer a nuanced position on gender identity, and it’s no wonder that when I told people that my organisation, More in Common, was writing a report about public attitudes on the topic, the most common response was that we were “very brave”.
