A clash on TV over a blunt biological question has reignited debate about honesty, science, and how trans issues are discussed politically.
What’s weirder: asking if a woman can have a penis or being so flummoxed by such a simple query that you start to stutter and sweat and flat-out refuse to answer?. It’s the latter, isn’t it?. To most normal people out there, the loon isn’t the person who would like to know if you understand primary-school biology – it’s the person who quite clearly does not.. Consider the mad clash between Piers Morgan and Rachel
Millward, co-deputy leader of the Green Party.. On Question Time last week, Morgan, on one of his delicious wind-ups, asked Millward if a woman can have a penis.. As we know from Keir Starmer’s fear-stricken gibberish replies to this query, and poor old Ed Davey’s twaddle about how some women ‘quite clearly’ sport a manhood, this stickler is like kryptonite for the political class.. And so it proved for Ms Millward.. She did everything she
could to dodge the question.. She got flustered, she fidgeted, she called Morgan ‘weird’.. The one word that didn’t leave her lips is the one most five-year-olds would gleefully cry if this question were put to them: ‘NO!’ ‘You have a uniquely strange obsession with people’s genitalia’, she said to Morgan.. He pressed her once more on the matter of who has a penis and who does not; it’s such a ‘weird question’, she said..
🚨 WATCH: Piers Morgan and Green Deputy Leader Rachel Millward clash over Zack Polanski’s stance on trans people Morgan: “Do you think women have penises?” Millward: “I think you have a uniquely strange obsession with people’s genitalia” pic.twitter.com/NM95FYw1CE— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) May 8, 2026 What’s weird, Ms Millward, is that you couldn’t answer it.. Either from ignorance of the very basics of biology or out of a crippling fear that a digital mob of pink-haired
genderfluids will come for you if you dare to say what even the Neanderthals knew, you wouldn’t give an honest answer.. You wouldn’t be done with it and say ‘No’.. So now we have another question: why won’t you tell the truth?. More to the point: why should we trust you to tell the truth about anything if you won’t even tell the truth about the fundamentals of human life?. Politicians love to write off
the penis question as ‘weird’ or trivial or a cynical gotcha by hacks who want clicks.. In fact it is one of the great, defining inquiries of our time.. There is no better way to judge a politician than by asking him or her if a lady can have a phallus.. Their answer will tell you everything you need to know about their attitude to science, to truth, to women’s rights and to the rule
of common sense itself.. Imagine the industrial-strength gall it must take for the likes of Ms Millward to say it’s ‘weird’ to ask if women can have penises.. It was the very activist class she belongs to that foisted the unholy notion of ‘women with penises’ onto a bewildered public.. Who sat idly by – or raucously cheered – as women’s jails were thrown open to ‘women with penises’ and as NHS nurses were forced
to undress with ‘women with penises’.. Time and again they told us that these people with penises, these men, were women, and that only a dumb bigot would say otherwise.. And now they have the nerve to call us ‘weird’ for pushing back against their luxury post-truth drivel.. What Ms Millward lacks in biological understanding she more than makes up for with brass neck.. We need to talk about the haughty bourgeois apathy of those
who bow at the altar of ‘Trans women are women’.. Ms Millward was privately educated.. She went to Oxford.. She seems quite well-to-do.. Good for her.. But can she not spare one measly thought for less fortunate women?. For women who end up in jail?. For women desperately seeking shelter from domestic abuse?. For women, like nurses and firefighters, whose jobs entail changing their clothes?. For these women, ‘women with penises’ is not some abstract
idea.. They’re real men, in places where they don’t belong.. They’re the rapist in the jail cell next to yours.. They’re a bloke in boxers skulking in the corner of your changing room as you put on your nurse’s uniform to serve the public.. The cry of ‘Trans women are women’ might win digital fawning for middle-class activists like Ms Millward; but for working-class women it means risk, danger, discomfort.. This is why the question
‘Can women have a penis?’ really matters.. It’s how we find out if you are an honest person.. It’s how we find out if you are willing to burn truth itself in order to stay sweet with the posh post-truth left.. It tells us what you value more: your own seat at the table of the new priestly elite or the right of working-class women and girls to enjoy privacy, dignity and security.. So ask
them all, every last one of them: ‘Can a woman have a penis?. Yes or no?’
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