It won’t have escaped your attention that the LGBTQ+ lobby is going through a bit of a crisis. Daily, it seems, it champions deeply unpopular policies, whether it’s erasing words like ‘mother’ or inviting drag queens into libraries to have “educational” conversations with 6 year olds while dressed in fishnet tights. Some policies, like gender self-identification, even undermine lesbian or gay rights, which you might think was rather an own goal for a movement that claims to speak for …lesbians and gays.

At the heart of all these strange proposals is a conviction that we can say nothing with any certainty about biology. In particular, someone’s biological sex is, the lobby and its supporters insist, something so vague and fluid it is more like a passing mood than something concrete and embedded in nature. One of the consequences that flow from this “discovery” is that fixed categories for sexual orientation are replaced by definitions that melt as soon as they are formed.

All this means nowadays anyone can be LGBTQ+. Even Jameela Jamil despite the fact she’s been going out with a straight man for the last 8 years. Which is Queer AF as the kids like to say.