What makes a woman female? It’s mere dress sense according to the Financial Times, who have put a “gender-fluid” man on its Top 100 Female Champions of Women in Business list. Good phrase that, champion of women. It implies you have an interest in women succeeding, or at least know what a woman is. These lists tend to be idiotic – they are public relations, not news - but this one is interesting, if only by mistake.

Philip Bunce is a technology director at the bank Credit Suisse. He is not a trans woman. He is not living full-time as a woman and he does not wish to transition. So, Philip Bunce is definitely a man.

He is a man who sometimes likes to dress in women’s clothing (sexy women’s clothing, of course, a man’s idea of women’s clothing) and be called Pippa. I have no problem with any of this – gender stereotypes are exhausting, and sometimes very damaging – and I am happy for him.

But it should not be applauded as progress for women. I am not happy for the FT, whose definition of womanhood – it’s all about the clothes, stupid! – is exactly the same as a misogynist’s definition of womanhood. It’s shallow, glib and not even skin-deep; even advertising would give you, say, tampons and baby-milk as well as a hot pink dress to wear.