Now we all have to live by radical feminist rules

Transport for London has banned the phrase “ladies and gentlemen”. TfL’s head of customer strategy, Mark Evers, said they wanted “everyone to feel welcome on our transport network”. So in future staff will greet passengers with “Hello everyone”.

Whoopee, eh! Thank goodness we’ve been stripped of our gender identity! Nasty, bigoted, unfriendly act, thinking of ourselves as either women or men! We’re all gender-fluid now. You might say TfL is putting the trans into transit and about time too.

Binary is so last century. No less a body than the Fawcett Society has told us this. Last year it reported that 44 per cent of British people now believe gender can be expressed as a range of identities, with almost half of young women holding this view…

It surely isn’t gender itself but the politicised gender issue that’s the real social construct — created to dispense with the social role of men and destroy the traditional family which was demonised as the crucible of male power over women. In 1970, the pioneering feminist Kate Millett wrote in Sexual Politics that boys and girls were conditioned into roles within the family, “patriarchy’s chief institution”.