The Secret Gender Files

Just when it seemed the LGBTQ+ lobby was in retreat it's landed a gift of £21M from the UK government. Money it will now use to try to reverse the Supreme Court ruling. After For Women Scotland’s triumph at the Supreme Court many of us dared to hope the defeat of trans ideology was imminent. As if to remind us of the fragility of hope the British government proceeded to take over a year to publish official guidelines on how the judgment should be applied.

It’s the first of February 1945 and Adolf Hitler is awarding a medal to someone special. It’s not as if the Führer hasn’t other things to think about. Berlin is being bombed on such a massive scale both night and day he is forced to spend more and more time in his bunker. In his tiny office 28 feet under ground, protected by a 10 foot solid concrete roof Hitler will often sit staring at a portrait of Frederick the Great. A man who won wars.

I won’t be going to Tate Modern’s exhibition about the 1980s fashion designer Leigh Bowery. Not least because I have no desire to see my ass on a giant screen. Call me old-fashioned. Excerpts from the film ‘Hail the New Puritan’ are apparently being shown on a loop at the exhibition. Whether these include the sex scene in which my youthful bottom looms into view I’m still unsure. I might have to call the Tate and ask if a huge arse makes an appearance.

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