Trans Rights: Too Often a Toxic Proxy Cause

The arguments after the resignation of Scotland's First Minister showed how trans ideology has become a rallying point for long-standing political and cultural battles. This helps it elude scrutiny.

If you want to understand why the landscape around us looks the way it does you have to study its geology. Equally, if you want to understand why people take the positions they do you sometimes have to dig deep to discover the ideas that have calcified in their brains.

Which brings me to that most unlikely seed-bed of trans ideology, my home country. One…