It is deepening division in Scotland because it incentivises belligerent activists whose worldview relies upon identity politics to lodge formal complaints to the police. Their modus operandi has been – from the advent of the debate around gender politics – to use in-your-face confrontation to intimidate and shut down the voices opposing them.

From placards suggesting those opposing the GRR Bill should be decapitated to threatening behaviour that has required police intervention at demonstrations, women professing to define themselves as women in their own terms – unexceptionally to most people as adult biological females – have been targeted.