Another bugbear for her was the compelled language that trans activism had brought in, such as “chest-feeding”. “Sorry, but I breastfed my kids and it was my breast that was cut off when I had cancer,” she wrote memorably in 2017.
Safeguarding children, single-sex spaces, women’s ability to define themselves: these were things that mattered to her and despite the many death threats and the loss of her beloved job she would not shut up.
“And yet I am not prepared to stop talking about this. It’s an issue that needs to be discussed without anyone fearing losing their livelihood or their life.” Brava Jenni.
Her defenestration was possibly meant to be an example to junior women at the BBC, an attempt at silencing. Woman’s Hour is now an unlistenable mishmash of awed, whispering presenters kowtowing to men. Last week, for instance, in a discussion about misogyny and the manosphere, a man who had not transitioned into “womanhood” until his sixties was interviewed as an expert on the subject. Impartiality? No, this is a closing down of exactly the debate Jenni wanted to have.