
Over a hundred years ago, women across England, Scotland and Wales chained themselves to railings, knowing they would be spat on by passers-by, and waited to be cut free and thrown in a cell. The Suffragettes were up against a real, honest-to-God patriarchy, an entire society that valued them only for their ability to satisfy the requirements of men. For choosing to resist, they were ridiculed and beaten, mocked in the press, abandoned by friends, shunned and silenced.









Even Margaret Atwood has fallen foul of trans activists.