Transvestites are men who enjoy dressing as women. I knew dozens of them in Norfolk when I came out, I never met one who claimed to 𝑏𝑒 a woman. To have transubstantiated into being female by putting on a dress.

A few months ago I regarded these shows as harmless, men caricaturing women so gaudily that it was akin to a circus act, but some of the arguments I've read since have changed my mind.