Suzanne Harrington: Haven’t trans people enough to be getting on with, without the rest of us wading in?

"We call it the trans ‘debate’, as we deem ourselves qualified to ‘debate’ the lived experiences of a tiny, tiny minority - a minority who, one suspects, would quite like to just get on with their lives..."

The transgender flag, displaying both colours associated with established gender roles, and white for people who are transition or are non-binary, flying across from Cork City Hall.

As Graham Linehan’s appearance at the Edinburgh Festival is cancelled because of his intransigent transphobia, a book lands on my desk called Trouble With Gender. Oh, God. What fresh hell? What trouble with gender?

Written by a philosophy professor at MIT, this latest contribution, says its press release, “pushes back against the new gender revolution, restoring sex to its rightful place”, arguing that “there is no escape from the concept of sex as binary.”