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Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud, the podcast where each week we choose pieces from the magazine and ask their writers to read them aloud.

This week, we've got Max Jeffrey on the transgender nihilists agitating for what he calls a new era of rage.

Peter James reads his diary. Zoe Strimple discusses Lena Dunham's version of feminism,

and Graham Thompson takes us through the rock and roll alter egos of history. Up first, Max Jeffrey.

It's a year since the Supreme Court ruled that gender means biological sex, and not much has changed.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission, which is advising the government on how to apply

the judgment to law, has spent a long while drafting guidance.

But last week, word arrived that Bridget Philipson, the Women and Equality's Minister,

wants the EHRC to tone down its advice, leading to further delays.

Why the hold up? My guess is that it has something to do with the new era we are entering, an era of trans rage. That's not my expression.

It's from Bashback, a recently formed anonymous collective going after people and organizations

it believes frustrate the transgender experience. Its supporters first act,

last August, was to rough up Health Secretary West Streeting's constituency office. Next, they vandalised

a Brighton Conference Centre hosting an event for feminists. In October, Bashback Dorbbed the headquarters

of the EHRC and Pink Paint. This year, members hacked the website of the Free Speech Union and published a list of its donors.

All our targets have blood on their hands, Bashback says on its website.

We refuse to let them wash it off in peace. Welcome to a new era of trans rage.

Transgender activism was always fraught, but after last year's

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