Not forgetting a certain Bruce from the Philosophy Dept of the University of Woolloomooloo.

So why is this painful, personal and intensely private moment now appearing here? Why?

The book looks like it's wrapped in a cloth?

You did the right thing. Be proud.

"Just whatever the doctor said when you were born"
You mean your actual, observable sex at birth in well over 99 per cent of births?
Don't make out midwives and doctors to be insensate fools.

Women cannot and never have been able to "escape" their biological sex. This is the point, the absolute point, upon which this hinges.

I think we all did!

"Mr Arthur, honey."

The mundane can be epic.
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" Midlands or North West...Working class and/or 60+"
Why not come right out and say 'the deserving poor'? You are skilled with words. Could you not have found a less patronising way to say this?