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It has long been obvious that a declaration of a sex-mismatched gender identity will make trusting souls act as if a whole new person has suddenly been born — even better for public rehabilitation than being ritually humiliated in a jungle. Under normal circumstances it would be quite unusual for a woman who was also a former Ukip candidate, had admitted to strangling her wife and said publicly that Camden had “too many gays” to get onto Woman’s Hour or Celebrity MasterChef, but exceptions were happily made for the boxing promoter turned LGBT ambassador Kellie Maloney after transition. And if you ever find yourself killing your partner, then trying to rape a shop assistant only days after prison release, you could always draw upon the inspirational example of Karen Jones, who did the same: say you’re a woman now, rebrand your crimes as a “cry for help” and after prison become a motivational speaker. In Jones’s case, the outcome was an invitation to address the House of Lords in 2018.
We are not as naive as we once were, and the taste for Hollywood-style redemption arcs about finding your inner womanhood somewhere between arrest and the prison cell is dissipating. The public doesn’t seem as misty-eyed as back when a man putting on a dress was generally treated as a kind of secular canonisation. Awareness has been helped by greater statistical clarity about reality: for instance, that, according to recent figures, 70 per cent of trans-identified prisoners are incarcerated for sexual assault or violent crime, compared with about 19 per cent of the male prison population generally.
Still, there remains a general reluctance in polite society to spell out a point that grows more obvious with every news story about a “woman” arrested for paedophilia, voyeurism or sex attacks. So I’ll say it. We need to responsibly face the fact that certain men are attracted to identifying as women because they are already psychologically unstable; and the stories about how any subsequent predatory behaviour or aggression comes only from “societal transphobia” or “repressing who I really was” is a load of, well, balls.
There are many different reasons for people to transition, and it serves nobody to treat all cases as alike. “Some men” does not mean “all men”, obviously. But it is not random that certain narcissistic men with borderline personality disorder start announcing they are female, for the two things can be manifestations of the same set of underlying psychological issues. And this fact has obvious consequences, not just for changing room allocation but also for being able to keep track of professionals who work with vulnerable people, however many changes in identity they profess to have. Let’s all stop pretending we have had a collective brain transplant and forgotten very basic safeguarding rules that, deep down, we really know.
A "narcissistic man with borderline personality disorder" would be a fair description of Trump. Ironic then that he would be the one to call a halt to the gender rampage through American institutions. But then history has never been straightforward – and he could hardly miss the open goal left by the gender-obsessed Democrats.
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