I feel bad about Heather Brunskell Evans. A few months ago I was asked to speak on Radio 4’s Moral Maze about how proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act will affect women. Instead I recommended Heather, far better qualified as editor of a recent book on the medical transition of children.

Cross-examined by Michael Burke, she queried why, if caring adults do not endorse a seven-year-old’s view that he is, say, an astronaut, trans activists want parents to “affirm” every child who suggests he is “in the wrong body”. For this view Brunskell Evans was suspended by the Women’s Equality Party (WEP) of which she is a founder member and, after a secret disciplinary hearing, sacked as its official voice on violence against women,