Five years after Meadows’ death, the tone of even one of the country’s most respected broad-sheets, The Times, dripped with contempt: ‘A worthy movement to help a minority group has become a form of McCarthyism in bad wigs and fishnets, thanks to a bunch of bullies, trolls and humourless misogynists,’ one 2018 article on trans people read. ‘Feel too daunted to venture an opinion on anything “transgender”? Great! That’s exactly how the bullies like it.’1
