By June 2020, it seems the best-selling author had had enough. Needing neither the money nor the approval of the spotty urchins who had vowed to burn her books, Rowling responded to accusations of ‘transphobia’ in essay form. In 3,600 words Rowling explained why, as a woman who has suffered domestic violence, she wasn’t that keen on the idea of men being able to change legal sex with the magic words ‘I identify as’. Despite threats to cancel her and considerable harassment, Rowling emerged from the nightmare fantasy world of trolls and gender dementors as a real-world heroine.

The claims of transgender activists have crumbled under the weight of public scrutiny from across the polical spectrum – from the thousand or so left-wing attendees of the Woman’s Place UK ‘Women’s Liberation Conference’ in February to Tory peer Baroness Nicholson. Some activists, like Posie Parker (aka Kellie-Jay Minshull), have faced arrest for allegedly breaching coronavirus laws while trying to raise awareness of the assault on women’s rights from transgender ideology.