In Friday’s New York Times, White House correspondent Michael Shear was filing from London, as if offering a warning to left-wing trans activists in the United States: The bigots are coming for you too! “U.K. Court Ruling on Trans Women Is Part of Wider Debate on Sex and Gender.”
Shear characterized the measured decision by the U.K. Supreme Court with fiery, loaded language.
The legal assault on trans rights is being waged on both sides of the Atlantic. This week, Hungary’s Parliament approved a constitutional amendment banning public events by members of L.G.B.T.Q. communities. President Trump sued Maine for allowing trans athletes in schools.
And Britain’s highest court ruled that the legal definition of a woman under the country’s equality legislation is based on biological sex. Trans women, the court said in a headline-making 88-page…
