Earlier this year, you may recall seeing this rather disturbing headline, “Teacher told to apologise for addressing a classroom of female pupils, ‘girls’.”

As the teacher involved explained at the time, “I was ordered to apologise to a Year 7 class at my private girls' school — for addressing them as 'girls'. I was told by 11-year-olds that 'not everyone here identifies as female' and that I had to respect their chosen pronouns.”

When the teacher in question, Josie , refused to capitulate to this demand, the girls made their point the following day by writing their pronouns on the board, including two that identified as "they/them", and staged a lunchtime protest.