Our resident Grub St hack is pleased to learn what a woman is - thanks to the judges

Much ink has, and will continue to be, spilt over the Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers. Many empty assertions that the decision makes no difference or is completely negative have been made: by trans pundit India Willougby, by Stonewall, by various stubbly (wo)men on X, and many an account with a suspiciously fey anime as their profile pics. All noise. The Supreme Court has pronounced the women are women and men are men - as if we didn’t know that already, but still.

This is particularly helpful for a person, whom, to avoid embarrassment, we will call simply KS. This chap was clearly far too busy helping his dad in his toolmaker’s workshop - much like Our Lord making a shelf unit or such for Joseph - to attend his school’s sex education lessons. Certainly he was previously unable to answer the simple question, ‘What is a Woman?’, in any coherent manner. Indeed, many of his chums were in the same boat, engaging in unedifying verbal gymnastics to prove that men who were (ahem) physically intact were women, and could invade women’s groups, steal trophies in women’s sports, use women’s changing rooms and toilets etc.

Indeed, one of these men became the head of a women’s refuge. Good grief. Admittedly, that was in Scotland where madness is now the new normal. Just check out the activity of the Scottish Green Party if you don’t believe Swift.

One rather aggravating aspect of this debate (although Swift thinks it is difficult to have a ‘debate’ when one side espouses sweet reason, and the other is thirsting for blood), was the references to the LBGT+ ‘community’ by the likes of Stonewall. There is no such community. The activist Ts don’t give a flying F for the interests of the L and the G. To put it more simply, women who prefer women were accused by some trans militants of being bigoted because they would not engage in sexual activity with men. A wig and a skirt, dear boys, doth not a woman make. That is now clear.

But Swift thinks there is a bigger lesson here. Whole swathes of the media, the public sector, of large companies, of the education world and the criminal justice system were in thrall to a dangerous, pernicious and idiotic belief that sex was as mutable as plasticine. Many sensible people were either too scared or too cowardly to call out the lunacy that flourished in the very midst of our society. Many politicians and journalists, who have ready access to platforms to influence public opinion, actively championed this nonsense. It was a trahison des clercs of the worst kind.

if we are to learn anything from this episode it is that those who purport to guide us on matters political, moral - and indeed sexual - may smile and smile yet be a villain. Be on your guard!