Surely, the vast majority of female athletes are opposed to having to compete against biological males. Earlier this year, an anonymous survey found that 92 per cent of elite women’s cyclists are opposed to competing against transgender cyclists. One suspects such unanimity of feeling prevails across women’s sport.

And why wouldn’t it? Female athletes want to preserve the integrity of their competitions. They want the competition to be fair. They want to feel that they have a chance, perhaps, even of winning. All of which is undermined by the presence of male athletes, from Lia Thomas in swimming to Emily Bridges in cycling.

For all the jargon of gender-identity theory, for all the pretentious blather generated by the woke industrial complex, sometimes there’s just no denying biological reality. And the reality, as every school kid used to know, is that there are significant biological differences between men and women. And these differences, which manifest themselves most during puberty, when boys’ muscle mass increases, their bones become denser, and their lung capacity becomes larger, means that they have a significant physical advantage over girls. Which, in turn, necessitates the existence of different, sex-based categories of sports.