Nigella Lawson has apologised for a column 27 years ago in which she wrote that gender reassignment surgery was akin to “mutilating” the body.
In the piece for the Evening Standard in October 1993, Lawson commented on Christie Elan-Cane, who was born female but identifies as “non-gendered”. She said that Elan-Cane’s desire for breast and womb removal surgery was “brutal” and had “no medical justification”.
She has now apologised to Elan-Cane after the campaigner for non-gendered people wrote about the article on Twitter.
Lawson, 60, who moved from journalism into cookery writing and TV in the late 1990s, said she was “very glad to have the opportunity to apologise” and that “while I certainly meant no harm, unfortunately that doesn’t mean I didn’t harm”.
