Finally, some who embrace the psychological paradigm critique transition-affirmative approaches by pointing to studies showing that a statistically significant number of people who have undergone transition – one 2009 study suggests up to 8 percent – have later expressed regrets, with some even deciding to retransition back to their birth sex.

Ufology is a somewhat Fortean subject.

“Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster.

A particular style emerges, one that might be called anagraphy, or a rhetoric of graphic traits that bind the physical character of the printed letters to the psychological conditions of the narratives.