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It’s dangerous and wrong to tell all children they’re ‘gender fluid’

What started as a baffling skirmish on the wilder shores of victim culture has now turned into something more menacing

30 January 2016

9:00 AM

30 January 2016

9:00 AM

Once upon a time, ‘binary’ was a mathematical term. Now it is an insult on a par with ‘racist’, ‘sexist’ or ‘homophobic’, to be deployed as a weapon in our culture wars. The enemy on this particular battleground is anyone who maintains that there are men and there are women, and that the difference between them is fundamental.

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Melanie Phillips was on the staff of the Guardian for 16 years, three of them as news editor. She is now a columnist for the Times.

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