The Tragic Tale of "Lady" Carbisdale.

20 years ago I tried to make a show with Samantha Kane one of the first detransitioners. He's "changed gender" twice since then, making him living proof of the madness of so-called "gender surgery".

Samantha (Sam) Kane is one of those individuals whose life story has a deep strangeness, an almost fictional quality, that seems perfectly to mirror the surreal nature of the world of gender identity. He is in the news again after announcing he’s selling the Scottish castle he bought only three years ago.

Ignore for now Kane’s prattle about the reason for the sale being ‘abuse’ from locals in what is one of the most remote corners of Scotland. This is a man who has changed his legal sex three times and paid vast sums of money to surgically reflect those changes of mind. No wonder locals may have wondered if he’d settled on a final decision yet.

Samantha/Sam’s story is important not just because it reminds us people may take decisions they live to regret. And then regret again. And …in his case….yet again.

His story spans three decades which saw the ascent of the trans agenda from before the Gender Recognition Act to the present day. His rollercoaster journey reveals the trauma of what passes for “gender affirming surgery”, exposes the suffocating influence of outdated gender stereotypes on trans identified individuals and sheds light on the misogyny and homophobia that lurk within so many trans pioneers like Sam.

Samantha Kane’s story is almost unbelievable. He made a fortune twice, went to jail, was divorced twice, went bankrupt, was implicated in a huge geopolitical scandal (unfairly) involving ballistic missiles and took his surgeon to court. Then he bought a castle which he’s selling. He is a remarkable, if slightly unhinged man.

The most important thing about the story of Samantha (Sam) Kane (Hashimi) though is that no one comes anywhere close to being as abusive towards him as he has been towards himself.