Around this time last year, I ended my spiked review-of-the-year piece with an optimistic flourish: ‘For the first time ever, I can say that 2025 will be the year the trans trend crashes.’ Twelve months on and I can’t decide whether I should feel smug or a total chump. To misquote the fox-bashing trans activist, Jolyon Maugham: ‘At a deeply technical level we won. At every substantive level we lost.’
