I might send Jo Swinson a bunch of flowers. My card will read: “Thank you for making reform of the Gender Recognition Act a flagship Liberal Democrat election policy, thus finally giving journalists permission to expose the consequences for women’s rights

and safety.”

I mean it. Normally broadcasters swerve this toxic topic, knowing that even to question is deemed transphobic. But this was a manifesto pledge: the electorate deserved clarification. Thus Nick Robinson could ask Luciana Berger: “Is it the Lib Dem view that if I now declare that I identify as a woman you want the law to treat me as a woman?” To which she replied: “Yes!”

On Newsnight, Sarah Wollaston (a medical doctor) revealed she does not believe a baby’s biological