Morgan Page, a former cabaret artist, works for the pressure group Stonewall. She says anti-trans sentiment is inflamed by ‘conservatives dressed up as feminists’

Dressed only in a glittery bra and panties, Morgan Page is performing Wardrobe Changes and Four Cocks, a no-holds-barred cabaret routine about her encounters as a Toronto sex worker, including one with a trans client boasting “the world’s smallest testicular implants, the size of Cadbury’s Mini Eggs”.

Life has moved on for Page since then. Now in London, she is working for the advocacy group Stonewall on its “transgender leadership programme”, which is managing a new national lottery grant of almost £500,000. This was given to Stonewall to “empower trans leaders and organisations” with a “particular focus on leadership, media and influencing”.

Page’s views on the debate she is paid to influence are as explicit as her descriptions of her former customers. Britain is “losing