The trans-rights issue would have just seemed baffling even to a liberal at the start of the century; indeed even in 2003 Jon Stewart was making fun of ‘chicks-with-dicks’, a joke that would be genuinely career-ending by 2016. In the US at the turn of the century the Democrats had an immigration programme that in terms of policy if not language was very similar to Donald Trump’s 2016 policy, widely compared to Nazi Germany by America’s hysterical, gibbering columnists.
