Another heretic for the pyre:

Choreographer Rosie Kay has never shied away from controversial subjects. Her ballet MK Ultra addressed conspiracy theorists; her award-winning 5 Soldiers, inspired by the weeks she spent embedded with an infantry regiment, tackled war. And on Tuesday Kay resigned from the dance company that bears her name, forced out by her belief that biological sex is immutable.

Such a cranky “belief,” isn’t it. It’s like the “belief” that animals are born and die.

What led to Kay, 45, abandoning her life’s work was an argument at a party she held for young dancers at her home. Telling them that her next ballet was based on Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, a male aristocrat who morphs into a woman, she added: “Woolf knows anyone can change sex in their imagination but that you can’t change sex in your actual body.”

Dancers complained to her board of trustees and now, four months later, having only just seen allegations she totally denies, Kay has lost access to her company’s bank account, social media and email address. She quit her company because she believes a proposed tribunal, run by an external HR consultant, would not rule in her favour.

“My lawyer advised me, ‘You are not going to win. They will find you guilty of transphobia, smear you — and that’s the end of your career.’ But I was just talking about women’s material reality and I am not going to go quietly. I am determined to put my head above the parapet.”

What an insult it is that we have to put our heads above the parapet.

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