Hands down, the worst news this week was that a rape survivor got refused complex, life-saving cancer surgery because a male employee with a “gender identity” apparently had some hurt feelings about her requirement for same-sex aftercare. It’s bad enough that Princess Grace Hospital put a man’s feelings ahead of a woman’s life, worse watching the usual men’s rights activists celebrate such a nauseating display of misogyny through their blue check Twitter accounts.
As awful as the story is, however, Princess Grace went too far. Consequences will follow. A woman’s life has been put in danger by trans ideology in clear contradiction of UK law, creating substantial legal exposure that once again isolates the role of policy capture. Baronness Nicholson is on the case and will have some pointed questions. There is also a petition. The wheels of justice grind slower than cancer, but they do grind exceedingly fine.
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