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Hello and welcome to the Spiked Podcast. I'm Fraser Meyers and with me as ever I'm joined by

Spikes deputy editor Tom Slater. Hello and Spiked columnist Ella Whelan

Hi coming up on the show the woke, the Brexit negotiations and an earthquake in East Germany.

Is it transphobic to talk about biological sex?

I am a firm believer in self-identification and like that brought into UK law because I think we need to end the discussion.

We need to end the discussion on this.

We've got to calm this debate down.

But that's the point is that this charter doesn't calm it down?

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