Like thousands of men (and I can use that word today without having to explain it) I always fancied myself wearing the England No9 shirt and leading the lads out at Wembley for a 5-0 rout of the Germans. The nagging problem was, I’m not an international class striker. So, like so many others, I just had to get over myself, live with it and get on with life as it is.

Which brings me to today’s Supreme Court long-awaited statement of the bleeding obvious… that women are women, and men pretending to be women, aren’t. And going forward they will have to get over themselves, live with it and get on with life as it is. (The good thing is, it’s not as hard as you think. It really isn’t.)

Handily for Mr Starmer - who seemed perennially puzzled - the Supreme Court ruling also answers that tricky question “can a woman have a penis?” No. No she can’t.

Like the Cass report before it, which savaged years of the the NHS’s “gender affirming” practices of ramming puberty blockers down the necks of young teens at the merest suggestion they might be sexually confused (what teen hasn’t been!?) the most mind-blowing revelation of today’s Court ruling is just how we, the tolerant, silent, kind majority, put up with the madness for so long.

If the loud, brash, aggressive trans-lobby felt like an attack on women and especially on feminism it is because it was. Women, who had battled for more than a century to achieve equal footing with men, and slowly had achieved it (mostly) were under attack for the first time in decades.

Successful women, brilliant role models for our daughters, like JK Rowling and Sharron Davies, were viciously and constantly attacked. And ordinary women who just felt women’s changing rooms should be for women rather than penis-owning men who just fancied themselves as women were derided as “Karens” – they were small minded bigots you see. Today that has all come to an end.

Why it took a court ruling will baffle most of us forever – but no matter the job is done. Lord Hodge said five Supreme Court justices had unanimously concluded “the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act refer to a biological woman and biological sex”.

And the 88-page ruling states categorically: “The definition of sex in the Equality Act 2010 makes clear that the concept of sex is binary, a person is either a woman or a man.”

Sex is binary. You don’t say! The ruling is of course a catastrophe for the woke industrial complex, the DEI advisory services making a Mint giving ridiculous advice to Government bodies (paid for by you) and private firms alike.

At a stroke their existence is ruled utterly pointless, their advice laughable and unwanted.

Of course trans people will continue to be trans people – and this is fine and dandy. (Although I suspect those adopting TG as a fashion/lifestyle option might wane in the wake of the ruling… for clarity, I was a punk at 14 to annoy my parents and if I was 14 now I might just claim to be TG for the same reasons…)

Let’s be clear: No-one except a handful of nutters ever had a problem with anyone trans-gender. Just with men claiming to be women. And vice versa.

There was always an annoying logical inconsistency built into the phrase “transwomen are women”. Nope. Women are women. And trans-women are trans-women.

Saying “trans-women are women” was always linguistically wrong – as from today it’s legally wrong too.