Except Blanchard is being a bit disingenuous here. Blanchard is one of the many male psychologists, psychiatrists, surgeons and other medical practitioners who years ago set themselves up as the "gatekeepers" who from on high would decide which males they'd give permission to pretend to be women and to invade female spaces, services and sports. Blanchard and these other men did this without ever once considering even for a brief moment the impact this would have on girls and women - and without ever consulting any female people.

In August on Twitter, Blanchard boasted about the good old days when men like him were the gatekeepers deciding which males with "gender dysphoria" would get to use ladies loos and other female facilities and call themselves women. I compared his position, unfavorably, to Chesterton's fence, calling it "Blanchard's gate" and asking him who put him in charge of deciding that certain males should get to trample over girls' and women's boundaries and abridge our rights. Within minutes, my Twitter account was suspended.