ANDREW PIERCE: Healthy debate is off-limits with pro-trans activists, but a few politicians are questioning some of their more extreme claims

Senior politicians in England are finally questioning some of the more extreme claims of the radical pro-trans lobby.

Not so their Celtic cousins. Like Nicola Sturgeon in her Scottish fiefdom, the Welsh Assembly’s Labour government takes furious umbrage at anyone who dares to question plans to make it easier for youngsters to transition to the opposite sex.

When Laura Anne Jones, a Tory member of the Welsh parliament [the Senedd], asked last week about the impact of so-called ‘self-ID’ on women-only spaces, Labour’s Deputy Minister for Social Partnership Hannah Blythyn didn’t hold back. 

Sighing loudly, she retorted: ‘Shameful! And I don’t think I have much to say in response to that.’ 

It was typical of how many pro-trans activists simply refuse to engage properly with the debate.

ANDREW PIERCE: Labour’s Deputy Minister for Social Partnership Hannah Blythyn, pictured, didn’t hold back

Blythyn’s remarks provoked fury on the influential Mumsnet website. ‘I hope the Welsh Labour Party discipline Blythyn,’ wrote one parent. 

‘She’s brought the party and the Senedd into disrepute.’

And now we learn that pro-trans virtue-signalling goes even further in Cardiff, with reports yesterday that tampons have appeared in the men’s loos at the Welsh Parliament.

Wales is currently suffering soaring NHS waiting lists and collapsing school standards — but the regional government clearly has more important priorities.

Rumoured to have enjoyed the corporate hospitality at Saturday night’s boozy Brit Awards was our mayfly PM, Liz Truss. 

And one song in particular may have struck a poignant chord: Lewis Capaldi’s No 1 hit, Forget Me. 

‘You . . . said that I did everything wrong,’ warbles the Scottish crooner. ‘And you’re not wrong.’ 

Remember Jo Swinson, the shortest-serving Lib Dem leader, who lost her job and Parliamentary seat in 2019? 

She can now be found as the director of Partners for a New Economy, an ‘international donor collaborative’ (whatever that may be). 

Swinson has told her former Party colleagues that she wants to keep a low profile: I doubt she’ll struggle there. 

Former chief medical officer Sally Davies says a rise in inheritance tax could be used to tackle obesity. 

Former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie’s response is: ‘Make A&E doors smaller so the fat can’t get in.’ 

Former Labour Deputy Leader Tom Watson has a theory as to how the coke-addled fraudster Jared O’Mara became a Labour candidate — and then a Sheffield Hallam MP. ‘He was imposed because he was a Momentum member,’ reveals Watson, referring to the hard-Left Corbynista faction.

‘They didn’t bother to check his ability to do the job and withstand public scrutiny.

‘It was cruel of them to put this man into a job he couldn’t do. That’s on Momentum, too . . . They should apologise.’

Some chance!

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