The time for compassion

A VICTORY for common sense after a High Court ruled that a woman who lost her job for tweeting that transgender people cannot change sex, that ‘ men cannot change into women’, had a belief protected in law.

And time also for some compassion. I have one transgender friend who, despite her lovely long hair and pretty clothes, at 6ft 2in and still with her prominent Adam’s apple, feels like an outsider, trapped in the wrong body.

Anyone has the right to express their views about what makes a man or a woman, but I’d like people to imagine what it would be like walking in my trans friend’s shoes before they tweet.