Yesterday we bore witness to something utterly disgusting: a step backwards from liberal, open democracy towards the dark depths of fascism. I have been thinking about what to say about this all day, but as someone whose former partner – a woman I loved deeply – was transgender, I feel I must say something. Yesterday’s ruling at the high court was perverse. In decreeing that gender/sex reduces down to a simplistic matter of biology, they effectively eliminate a person’s agency and right to live as they feel comfortable. Obviously this is a very complex subject with lots of issues you can get sidetracked by, but surely it boils down to a matter of agency: surely everyone has a right to define their selves as they see fit, and that includes gender. Yesterday’s ruling effectively strips thousands of people of that right, and instead rules that the rights and views of snooty, arrogant, intolerant TERF bitches are more important. That I can neither stomach nor abide. Frankly, as both a liberal, educated writer blogger and filmmaker who knows how valuable personal autonomy is, and a man who still thinks his trans former partner was the most incredible person I’ll ever meet, this injustice boils my blood with rage.