The five stages of victory

It’s more than a half-century since the psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross described recovery from grief as a five-stage process: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and finally acceptance. After the Supreme Court ruling that men who claim to be women don’t count as women for the purposes of equality law, it offers a handy way to track how gender ideologues are coping. So far most are bouncing uncomprehendingly between the first two stages, with no sign they understand that their loss may prov...