Instinctively, I’m with the authors of the recent Vatican document on sex and gender, Male and Female He Created Them when they declare (quoting an earlier document): “… our sexuality plays an integral part in the development of our personality and in the process of its education: ‘In fact, it is from [their] sex that the human person receives the characteristics which, on the biological, psychological and spiritual levels, make that person a man or a woman, and thereby largely condition his or her progress towards maturity and insertion into society’.”

So far, so self-evident, we might have thought until about five minutes ago. But now, when I get emails from the Tate galleries some have a note to indicate the author’s preferred gender designation and pronoun. And my first thought is: have they got nothing better to do?