Speaking in the House of Commons yesterday, the UK secretary of state for women and equalities, Kemi Badenoch, warned of the risks of ‘Transing away the gay’. ‘We are seeing… almost an epidemic of young gay children being told they are trans and being put on a medical pathway’, she said.

It is difficult to overstate what a seismic shift in public discourse her statement represents. These words would certainly have led to her being cancelled from the Labour Party, or even banned from Twitter / X in the pre-Elon Musk era. Here was Badenoch saying what was, until recently, utterly unsayable – and in parliament, no less.

The public now well understands that the extreme trans agenda is in conflict with women’s rights. This can be illustrated easily with just a few photographs of men winning trophies in women’s sports. But its conflict with gay rights is less understood. Not least as all of the mainstream former gay-rights charities like Stonewall insist; there isn’t any conflict at all.