A friend wants to organise a public debate on changes to the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) with speakers from both sides: trans activists and sceptical feminists. Good luck with that, I said. It was probably easier to get all parties to the table for the Oslo accords.

How do you debate when one side believes no debate can exist, that to ask questions is hate speech and must be silenced even with force? Yesterday the trans activist Tara Wolf, 26, was found guilty of assaulting the 60-year-old feminist Maria MacLachlan in Hyde Park before a meeting on the GRA. I witnessed it. A young, angry 6ft-plus hooded person punched her around the face. After the verdict police warned Ms MacLachlan’s supporters not to leave court