The Debatable Land #29: A Question of Truth

The trans wars will not disappear, no matter how much people might wish they would.

Welcome to the latest edition of my newsletter. As always, thanks for reading - and subscribing. I am grateful to you all for doing so and also for those who share or recommend this newsletter to other people. This is another epistle on the transgender wars and I apologise if this is not your to your taste. A wider, multi-issue, newsletter will follow in the next few days.

Never underestimate the depths of absurdity to which ideological conviction can lead a person. Or, indeed, a movement.

Consider, for instance, the action brought by Mermaids, a charity campaigning for transgender and gender-diverse young people, against the LGB Alliance, a charity advocating for - as the name suggests - lesbian, gay and bisexual people. Mermaids are seeking to have the LGB Alliance stripped of its charitable status. The case has been admirably documented by Tribunal Tweets and you can read the extensive reporting here.

On Wednesday, the court heard evidence from Paul Roberts, a representative of the…