DIANA THOMAS spent six decades as a man... Why does she say trans militants are stoking intolerance?
A few days ago, I had an operation to correct a condition that had gone from being an inconvenience to something potentially much more dangerous. Touch wood, the procedure went well. Certainly, my surgeon seemed satisfied when he saw me a day later. As for the nurses who looked after me, they couldn't have been kinder or more patient as in lay there in my M&S nightie, from which tubes emerged carrying all manner of bodily fluids to various plastic bags. When they asked me, I said I was happy to be called Diana, as opposed to Ms Thomas. Mostly, though, I was 'love', 'my darling', or even, on ...