Barbara Kay: Assenting to a Blanket Rule on Pronoun Use Is to Lose One’s Right to Say Aloud That the Emperor Is Naked

Women's rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull speaks during a “Let Women Speak” rally in opposition to government legislation making it easier for people to self-identify their gender, fearing it would allow sexual predators to gain access to women-only spaces, in Glasgow, Scotland, on Feb. 5, 2023. Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images

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In 2016 and 2019, a violent Scottish thug by the name of Adam Graham raped women he had met online. After being charged, he renamed himself Isla Bryson and assumed feminine lamination (wig, cosmetics, etc.) Graham did not have a gender recognition certificate, but was nevertheless remanded to Scotland’s only women’s prison, Cornton Vale. He was convicted in Glasgow High Court last month.