Did a YouGov poll find half the British public back ‘trans rights’?
Earlier this week, The Independent boldly claimed: “A large majority of the British public support transgender people having the right to ‘self-identify’ and choose their own gender, a new poll has found.”
The poll in question was commissioned by LGBT news website PinkNews. The “majority” turns out to be just 50 per cent, nearly twice the 27 per cent opposed. If that was the only problem you would have to acknowledge that on such a seemingly controversial issue, that still represents a big number. But it’s not the only problem.
The Independent goes on to imply that this support for ‘self-identification’ shows a desire for changing gender recognition law, and is support for legal sex changes to be based on nothing but personal preference....