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Sorry, Kellie Maloney, but to be a woman you must first be a girl

I admire the courage of transsexuals, but the defining of a woman solely by what you see when she is or is not dress is the province of Page Three

23 August 2014

9:00 AM

23 August 2014

9:00 AM

Anybody with an ounce of compassion would have been doffing caps in recent days to Frank Maloney — as, indeed, absolutely everybody with an ounce of compassion vigorously and noisily was. His announcement that he is undergoing a sex change has been met by plaudits from far and wide, notably from within the muscularly male world of boxing in which he made his name and from where his former client, Lennox Lewis, has led the cheerleading.

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