I have often wondered how people can house two diametrically opposite concepts in their heads. You’d think that logic would eventually dispel one idea over another but, apparently, when it comes to our politicians, the world of half-baked rhetoric is their oyster. So, this week, we had a rising politician who had just taken part in Gozo Pride apparently criticise the prime minister on social media for promising free gender reassignment surgery. His premise was that if there’s money for these services, there should be funds to help offer better aid to those with fibromyalgia. He accused the prime minister of being populist, which is a pretty interesting choice of words given the road he went down in his Facebook status. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m all about people getting the medication they need regardless of what they suffer from. Of course, people with fibromyalgia should get more help – isn’t that what we are all paying our taxes for? But what I absolutely don’t understand was why this particular politician thought it prudent to bring up transgender people in his argument. Perhaps if he had stopped to read the statistics about how many transgender people have considered...