What is a woman? The dictionary definition, “adult human female”, was deemed hate speech when posted on a Liverpool billboard and taken down. Perhaps the Financial Times might offer a new one: “Person of either sex who dresses in stereotypically feminine attire.”

It has been noted that Pippa/Philip Bunce, the cross-dressing Credit Suisse banker, appeared on the FT’s Top 100 Female Champions of Women in Business list. But at No 95 was Nicci Take, chief executive of the marketing company m62 vincis, self-described as a “corporate drag queen” who “sometimes goes into work as a man so she can bully people better”.

Neither of these people are trans women living and working permanently in the female gender. They are that now unfashionable term, transvestites, like