I know (hope) that this isn’t your aim. I think perhaps you are simply trying to tell your side of the story. So let’s make a pledge now to try and bring about genuine progress. Let’s start by concentrating on what we have in common, rather than what divides us. Let’s respect that we will never understand what it is like to be a gender we are not, but that the only way to sympathise is to listen, really listen to the people who are. I’ll listen to you if you listen to me.