I first thought this in relation to Eddie Izzard, who used to say that, "They are not women's clothes, they are my clothes, I bought them." Who could have argued with that? Yet now he called himself "she". He did not do so as a harmless quirk. To be polite or compassionate, some of us might have indulged that. Male transvestism is one of the most venerable of British eccentricities.
But Izzard was using feminine pronouns as a pretext for accessing women's single-sex facilities. Therefore, and however regretfully, we did have to insist against it. And now, this. A rapist in a women's prison. Keep saying that until it quite sinks is. A rapist in a women's prison. Concede the pronouns, and you would be conceding this. Therefore, we must resist without compromise.
Oh, and why did Adam Graham become Isla Bryson rather than Isla Graham? As well as having been born in the wrong sex, had he also been born into the wrong family? The ones who turn out to be wrong 'uns have a strong propensity to having changed their surnames as well. Watch out for that one.
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