Commentary On the second day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the head of the British foreign secret service, known as MI6, tweeted the following: With the tragedy and destruction unfolding so distressingly in Ukraine, we should remember the values and hard won freedoms that distinguish us from Putin, none more than LGBT+ rights. In other words, in the opinion of the head of this service, a transgender woman’s right to cheat at women’s sports by claiming to be a woman in the full sense of the word while retaining some of the inherited biological advantages of her birth-sex, is on a par with the right to free speech and a free press, the protection against arbitrary arrest, etc. It’s possible, I suppose, that the head of MI6 was playing a clever double game: He was trying falsely to reassure Vladimir Putin that the West was as decadent, feeble, and …