Debbie Hayton Debbie Hayton

Trans activists are making life harder for trans people

As a trans woman I find the ‘non-binary’ crusade frightening

This was the year that the word ‘non-binary’ went mainstream. It has now officially entered the dictionary — lexicographers at Collins have defined the term as ‘a gender or sexual identity that does not belong to the binary categories of male or female, heterosexual or homosexual’.

Non-binary also entered the Liberal Democrat manifesto, though Jo Swinson may now be regretting this decision.

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