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Talk about stating the bleeding obvious. Of course no woman has pretended to transition to a trans man because she wants to be allowed to take testosterone - because at present transitioning to a trans man does not give them the right to compete while taking testosterone. If the authorities...

The problem is that they are trying to achieve equality by closing all the best schools. It's a typical Labour policy - some people have more, and it's hard work trying to make things better for the worse off, so let's just make things worse for the better off. They're also talking of making...

If "closing the loopholes" manages to break even for the Treasury, I'll be very surprised. Why would companies want to invest in North Sea Oil when they know their profits will be taxed at 78& AND they won't get tax allowances for their investment? What they more likely to do is to scale...

No. I don't know anyone in Leeds. Why do you ask?

It was hypothetically suggested by baldeagle, whether seriously or by 'reductio ad absurdum', that trans men could play in women's sport. I was explaining why it couldn't happen. I have no idea why anyone would think that insane.

No, I am saying that someone would pretend to be transitioning in order to legally take performance enhancing drugs.

True, but those drugs don't include drugs specifically designed to make a woman's body more like a man's. Opening that particular door would clearly encourage women to take performance enhancing drugs while only pretending to be a trans man.

Hope they got the extra premium holiday insurance, and not just the standard 90 day maximum stay.

There is literally no difficulty in assessing whether being tall is an advantage for a goalkeeper. It is an advantage, full stop. There is no scientific study that could prove otherwise. An man of average size and strength cannot become a woman of average size and strength simply by taking...

Any person who takes drugs to make himself or herself stronger is banned from professional sport at least, and quite possibly from amateur sport as well. Therefore a trans man would not be allowed to play women's sport under the drugs rules, whatever he, she or they would like.

Instead of concentrating on the referee and what the referee should do to keep Rice on the pitch, why not concentrate on Rice himself? If Rice hadn't kicked the ball away, then he wouldn't have been sent off. There is no point jumping through all sorts of hoops to stop players facing the...

They have to be put in a separate category, to some extent. For example, medical. Prostate cancer screenings are men-only, cervical cancer screenings are women-only. Should a trans woman with a prostate go to a cervical cancer screening secure in the knowledge that as a woman she doesn't need...

Little scientific work is needed to prove that an average sized man, after undergoing all the hormone treatment for as long as it takes, will be an above-average sized woman. Height and reach is an advantage in most sports. To an extent, in lower level sports and if it is true and can be...

Does an average size male goalkeeper become an average size female goalkeeper after taking hormone therapy? The question about whether men and women should have separate biological categories is easy. Answer either yes, keep things separate because women aren't as strong as men; or no, abolish...

OK, so some people on £11.5k per year will get fuel benefit and some won't. My point in the first place was that portraying this as a redistribution of wealth away from multi-millionaires towards poor people, is not an accurate reflection of the policy.

I think we need to go back to first principles here. Why did they have a separate category for women's sports in the first place? It was because men have a physical advantage over women. Full stop. Nothing to do with societal or social reasons, but because of the physical advantage. Trans...

So far as I know, the winter fuel allowance is restricted to those on pension credit, and pension credit is restricted (for single people) to those on less than £218.15 per week.

The threshold at which fuel payments cease is a lot lower than your example. A pensioner with pension of £11,440 p.a. and no other income or savings is deemed to be too wealthy to get the benefit.

Why does it all have to be about money? These are people's lives, and (with fat people and smokers) it is always reduced to the cost-benefit analysis of whether the cost of their treatment is more than the savings from their pension. It would surely be better to look at the social cost of...

It did indeed. But it wasn't flexible. If you had a council house, you were bottom of the list for moving to another one (especially if you wanted to move to another town).