They never had those “rights” in the first place.

Transgender people must accept a perceived reduction in their rights after the supreme court decision on gender because they “have been lied to over many years” about what their rights actually were, one of the commissioners drawing up the official post-ruling guidance has said.

Speaking at a debate about the repercussions of April’s ruling that “woman” in the Equality Act refers only to a biological woman, Akua Reindorf said trans people had been misled about their rights and there “has to be a period of correction”.

Mind you, anyone with a brain should have been able to see that the “rights” in question were not rights.

However, the human rights campaign groups Liberty and Amnesty called on the EHRC to make sure the rights of trans people were properly considered when it draws up guidance for public bodies on how to implement the changed legal landscape.

But Liberty and Amnesty are in the made-up rights faction. There is no “right” to force everyone (or anyone) to agree that you are the sex you are not. There is no right to force people to agree that you’re a Martian or an octopus or a submarine. There is no right to force people to treat you as a Martian or octopus or submarine. Pretending there is such a right is a disaster, not least because it weakens the whole idea of human rights. If putative rights are that ridiculous then it’s a mistake to defend or protect them at all.

Asked by an audience member about worries the ruling could reduce the rights of trans people, another panellist, the barrister Naomi Cunningham, said trans people “will have to give way”, adding: “It can’t be helped, I’m afraid.”

Reindorf, speaking next, agreed: “Unfortunately, young people and trans people have been lied to over many years about what their rights are. It’s like Naomi said – I just can’t say it in a more diplomatic way than that. They have been lied to, and there has to be a period of correction, because other people have rights.”

Genuine rights – the kind that make sense and are workable.

Chiara Capraro, head of gender justice at Amnesty International UK, said: “The EHRC has the duty to uphold the rights of everyone, including all with protected characteristics. We are concerned that it is failing to do so and is unhelpfully pitting the rights of women and trans people against each other.”

Wrong. It’s trans ideology that does that, not the EHRC. Pretending that men have a right to be in women’s spaces and take jobs reserved for women and win awards intended for women and compete as women in Olympic boxing is what pits the rights of women and the fake rights of trans people against each other.