risk becoming a bore (or at least more of one than I am on other subjects), but it really, genuinely bothers me just how quickly an orthodoxy seems to have crept in that simply does not allow discussion of the fundamentals of this issue.

How did we get to a stage where, if a public figure refers to a transgender person by their biologically accurate personal pronoun or by their given forename, there is an outcry and apologies/sackings are demanded? How can it be that a publically-expressed degree of healthy scepticism over what is scientifically an extremely dubious matter (to say the least) is considered tantamount to a hate crime? How can we be in a situation where it is considered unreasonable that a volleyball player who is biologically a man is prevented by the sport's authorities from competing as a woman?

In short: what the f**k is wrong with everyone?