In any case, is the catastrophic mutation of the climate, the mortification of the oceans, the Sixth Great Extinction, not a better hill to die on than the grave threat of being forced to call people by their chosen pronouns? (Especially when no one’s actually being forced to do that.) It makes you wonder if the disproportionate seething rage against gender issues is fuelled not only by personal discomfort, but by a displaced anxiety about the real catastrophes facing civilisation. An easy target is preferred to a difficult and challenging one (a.k.a. ‘kicking down’).