Jenny Murray points out an important distinction.

At last, evidence of a bout of common sense in relation to the policing of tweets. Sir Andy Cooke, His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary, said this week that non-crime hate incidents should be scrapped and that officers must separate ‘the offensive from the criminal’.

If follows Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley’s comments that he will talk to new Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood about a proposed change in the law meaning police officers would not be required to record and investigate complaints about tweets unless it is clear the suspect intended real harm and violence.

She notes that this is obviously prompted by what the cops did to Glinner last week.

The tweet may not have been in the best possible taste, but there was certainly a marked contrast between the police response to Linehan’s words and their response to the violent threats meted out by trans activists against women they call TERFS (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists) like me. While Linehan was arrested, the trans activists making frightening threats to me simply got away with it.

That certainly was a marked contrast, and we’ve been dealing with it for years. The police would never ever lift so much as an eyebrow at abuse and threats aimed at women on social media, but men who pretend to be women are a whole other story.

Why is that exactly? Why do the police see women as so much worthless garbage and men who pretend to be women as infinitely valuable?

As someone who has spent their life championing women’s rights, I have long been appalled by the impact of the Stonewall campaign which pushed trans rights to the detriment of women’s rights. I was not prepared to have breastfeeding dubbed ‘chestfeeding’ or trans women described as real women.

Neither did I want to work for an organisation – the BBC – so seduced by Stonewall that it asked us to put our pronouns on our emails. I didn’t want men with a penis, dressed in a frock and a wig, invading spaces reserved for women. I was determined that young teenage girls should not be encouraged to believe they had been born into the wrong body, to be given potentially dangerous, irreversible drugs and have their breasts cut off.

In 2017, I accepted a commission to write an opinion piece for The Sunday Times in which I insisted that while trans people should be treated with respect, they must also respect women and acknowledge that they were not the same as us. No matter how they dressed, they had no experience of what it meant to be a woman. They would never have a period, they could never become pregnant, their medical needs would never be the same as ours. They must not describe themselves as women but as trans women.

Friends had told me my career would be damaged by expressing my strongly held beliefs. I thought I didn’t care. The defence and protection of women and girls was at the centre of work I had done for most of my life. But my friends were right about the backlash.

First came transgender newsreader India Willoughby demanding that I should be sacked by the BBC. I wasn’t sacked, but was banned from discussing the debate on air. More tweets followed with India calling me a nasty cow and far worse. Then the threats from her acolytes began. ‘History has its eyes on you, those who dehumanise us might want to consider where they’re standing,’ wrote one.

Then came endless promises that I would be raped or murdered, leaving me genuinely worried for my safety.

So, again, why are the police on Team Trans Women and not on Team Women? Why does none of the above cause the police to question their choices?