Why are trannies so touchy? So touchy that even that use of the word ‘tranny’ – which, yes, is designed to make a point – will have them reaching for their pots of green ink so that they can pen outraged missives about what a transphobic monster I am?

We live in an era of über-sensitivity, in which it’s the done thing among minority groups of every persuasion to trawl the media and internet and gutter for offence, so they can holler to the world: ‘I’m being victimised! Give me recognition for my suffering! (And a government grant, so that I...