When I was growing up in the 1960s and 70s, I took pleasure in rejecting feminine frippery such as frilly pink frills and girly shoes. I refused to have bows and ribbons in my hair, and I was not the only one in my friendship group that preferred dungarees to dresses.

I kept good company in a character from Enid Blyton, who was also a hard-core tomboy. Wilhelmina, better known as Bill, was the girl in Malory Towers - a series of books based on a fictitious all-girls boarding school, which chronicled the adventures of a group of friends getting up to high jinx.

A new stage version is now coming to the Bristol Old Vic, and has the Bill character played by a non-binary person. In today’s ‘woke’ parlance, non-binary, also known as genderqueer, is, according to Wikipedia, "a spectrum of gender identities that are not exclusively masculine or feminine‍—‌identities that are outside the gender-binary".

I thought that's what feminism had fought for? To not have to acquiesce to sexist stereotypes because we are female? Should we not simply be encouraging girls to reject the rules imposed upon them as to how they should behave? As the director of the new production, Emma Rice, says in the Telegraph today: “feminism is at the heart of Malory Towers”.