Another friend on here _andrewducker_ who I think you know, picked up on this and my response was as follows:

As a trans woman (and author as it happens- I'm a published poet), I've had to stand by for ages and listen to hatespeech without much chance to reply and we still don't seem to be getting past that after fifty years.

When one is the victim of these people's unreasoning and unreasonable hate, it feels altogether different. One tires of hearing the same old same old hoary myths being peddled over and over...........

I'm sure Joanne Harris knows what I mean!