A British politician's claim that "a child is born without sex" has been labeled "nuts" by a prominent commentator.
Dawn Butler, the U.K. Parliament member for the Brent Central district in Greater London, was asked Monday in an interview on the ITV channel's "Good Morning Britain" if people are "transphobic" if they believe there is a biological difference between men who say they are women, even if they have not had surgery, and true females.
"What we can't have is transphobia, we can't have people who are transphobic," she responded. "If you're saying that a trans woman isn't a woman, then there are issues around that."
The interviewer, Richard Madeley, asked, "When a child is born, they are identified and observed in a particular sex aren’t they?"
Butler replied, "A child is born without sex, a child is formed without sex in the beginning."
The U.K.'s Christian Institute pointed out science "clearly shows babies have the genetic coding for their sex from the moment of conception."