That fascinating feminist – she might call herself  “post-feminist” – and academic, Camille Paglia, was in London last weekend, and she spoke vividly about her “transgender identity” fantasies in her early years.

In conversation with Claire Fox of the Institute of Ideas, Prof Paglia described how, as a young girl, she had always identified with male heroes: Roman soldiers, Robin Hood, Napoleon most of all, and adored strutting around in dashing male garb.

But she was so glad that she grew up at a time when this was seen as an aspect of a lively young imagination, and not one requiring immediate intervention by social authorities or medical experts.