It is remarkable how quickly the cause of transgenderism has moved from being a strange object at the back of the social justice fridge to the hottest of potatoes. Fortunately, that hasn’t deterred Abigail Shriver from taking a bite, spitting it out, and revealing its squidgy centre.

Transgenderism is a reconstituted cause, developed in the laboratory by queer and gender theorists, designed to satisfy the craving of activists once the dish of marriage equality had been wiped clean.