Will the Supreme Court gender case victors get the apologies they deserve?

Those who have won a great victory after years of struggle are entitled to enjoy a modest triumph, a single victory lap. But to crow too loudly is unseemly, and it is the mark of a small victor to pursue former opponents vindictively, taking vengeful advantage of new-found power to do so. An ugly object lesson is the small-minded man gleefully dominating American headlines today: a walking, talking, strutting, preening definition of how not to behave in victory.

On 16 April, in London, the Supreme Court handed a stunning victory to those – mostly women – who have endured vilification, ruthless, relentless, sustained and vicious persecution, because they stood up for the obvious truth that a woman is an adult human female: the self-evident fact that a “trans woman” is a man, even if most have been too polite to say it in so many words.