I knew I was right…

Time flies when you’re being shunned! A whole five years have passed since a piece I wrote about male to female transsexuals (typically temperate sample: ‘A bunch of bed-wetters in bad wigs’) was published by the Observer – and then pulled. And what a lot of water has flown under the bridge – under the bed, even – since then. It has now become a fashionable political cause, one taken up by both Mumsnet and the Guardian – thanks in part to Jeremy Corbyn’s brosocialist Labour Party and its decision to allow trans-women onto all-women shortlists.

But it wasn’t always the case. I was one of the first feminists in this country to talk about the trans lobby, and for my trouble I got reported to the police, denounced by politicians and blacklisted by liberal broadsheets. But rather than feel regret, the subsequent series of unfortunate events have made me certain I acted correctly; I knew I was right, as the title of my autobiography had it.