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Now it’s the tranny-state

<p class="StandfirstFeatures">The transgender community have become masters (er, mistresses?) of intolerance and offence-taking</p>

18 October 2014

9:00 AM

18 October 2014

9:00 AM

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...

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