Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that Attitude, the UK’s leading gay men’s magazine, has named TikTok celebrity Dylan Mulvaney, a 26-year-old bloke, as its first ever Woman of the Year. We gay men aren’t exactly known to be connoisseurs of female anatomy. We tend to have the sort of working knowledge of the vulva that most suburban commuters have of the Amazon river basin. More on the theoretical side.

It wasn’t just the fact that most readers of Attitude wouldn’t recognise a vagina if they stumbled across one in a dark room that inspired the magazine to name a guy as best of the gals. This was also an opportunity for some political posturing.

Because Dylan Mulvaney isn’t just any bloke. He is one of those special males who have helped rebrand the once hopeless cause of men’s rights as ‘trans rights’, turning it into the progressive left’s favourite contemporary obsession in the process. It’s a movement that is so centred around men that it argues the best kind of woman is a deluded dude who thinks his moobs are actually boobs.

[It’s a hilarious column, but perhaps a little too much so considering that the “intersectional” Left just exposed itself as ragingly anti-Semitic this week, including with the “Queers for Palestine” demonstrations as Israel counted the bodies of the Palestinian massacres of 10/7. That’s a good moment to dump all of its pet causes, especially the ludicrous “trans X is X” fantasies that produced Mulvaney and his ilk in the first place. Playing along with their delusional diktats should come to an immediate end. — Ed]