When The New Republic ran a cover story on trans rights (long after my time there), Bill Kristol’s Weekly Standard, which used to run a weekly parody page of something in the media, merely reprinted the TNR cover without any change at all - with the mocking title: “Not A Parody”. For Kristol, trans rights were literally laughable.

When Kristol was asked to comment on this, he replied: “We simply designated the New Republic’s cover as that week’s Not a Parody. It speaks for itself, and others are free to comment as they wish.”

This, after a career spent trying to promote and legitimize conversion therapy for gay children and adults.

Just keeping the record straight, as it were.