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Letters: the cruelty of the Supreme Court trans ruling 

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EXPLORE THE ISSUE 03 May 2025
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Cruel intentions

Sir: Rod Liddle (‘Let’s strike a blow for honesty’, 26 April) seems to have fallen into the same trap as most writers who support the Supreme Court’s ruling on the trans issue – which is to refuse to differentiate between those who have undergone a full gender reassignment, so that they effectively no longer have the same bodies they were born into, and those who simply put on a dress and call themselves a woman.

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