by Suzanne Moore, Telegraph
The Supreme Court ruling that biological sex is real should have been a wake-up call, but the arts world still believes in fairy tales
An adult man does not know what it feels like to be a girl. But that didn’t stop transgender writer Paris Lees telling us in his 2021 memoir.
Of course, with What It Feels Like for a Girl, Lees is entitled to choose whatever book title he likes, particularly if he wants to also riff off a Madonna song.
But now that the memoir has been made into a BBC television series of the same name, what it feels like for licence fee payers is another matter. Because, for a very long time, the BBC has run roughshod over the feelings of those not enamoured with the trans cult.