Peggie’s Fight Made a Particularly Good Story

Peggie’s fight made a particularly good story because she’s admirable and relatable: an NHS nurse, aka a ministering angel, with an unblemished 30-year record. It also landed precisely when the same features that used to work to keep such stories out of the media started to count as positives. One is the craziness, which used to be very hard to report on because it was so implausible it made the reporter look like the crazy one. When gender woo was only on Tumblr and in university gender studies...