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    God, please. My best friend lives over there and my heart breaks for him and all our trans siblings every news cycle.

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    Labour wants to “simplify” the process by which people can legally change their gender to make it less “degrading” and “tortuous”, a shadow minister has said.

    Under existing rules, people who want a GRC must show proof they have lived in their acquired gender for at least two years, and their application must also be approved by a panel of doctors and lawyers.

    It comes after JK Rowling criticised Sir Keir Starmer over his party’s stance on transgender issues and accused him of “abandoning” women with his “dismissive and often offensive” approach to critics concerned about the impact on single-sex spaces.

    She added: "For left-leaning women like us, this isn’t, and never has been, about trans people enjoying the rights of every other citizen, and being free to present and identify however they wish.

    It’s about waiting, with dwindling hope, for the left to wake up to the fact that its lazy embrace of a quasi-religious ideology is having calamitous consequences."

    Mr Streeting added: "I think that’s very important, particularly in those spaces, whether hospital wards or prisons, or services that are designed for, female survivors of male violence against women and girls.


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