Bell now wishes she had come across radical-feminist ideas earlier – ‘that stereotypes don’t mean anything, that it doesn’t matter if you’re masculine, that it’s your biology that makes you a woman, and there are other women like you’. The Tavistock’s approach was the opposite of what she needed, she says. ‘There was never anyone telling me to love myself and that I was fine the way I was. It was just, “change yourself and you’ll be better.” ’
