Labour should apologise to Rosie Duffield.

y author Graham Linehan, 55, the Father Ted creator and now a gender-critical campaigner.

The party dropped its year-long investigation into Ms Duffield earlier in 2024 but she has spoken about feeling “isolated” among Labour MPs for her views.

Those with gender-critical views believe that a person’s sex cannot be changed and are generally opposed to the idea that gender identity is more important than biological sex.

Those with gender-critical views know that a person’s sex cannot be changed. And they generally don't believe in "gender identity", viewing it as cult-speak nonsense. It's why they're called gender-critical.

Following Ms Mahmood’s comments on Monday night, the Harry Potter author wrote on X: “If senior opposition figures agree with me that sex is real and immutable, I hope we’ll soon see an apology to [Rosie Duffield], who believes exactly what I believe.”