By Mizy Judah Clifton In May 1975, BBC Two’s Robert Robinson sat down with the Welsh historian and travel writer Jan Morris to discuss her new autobiography, Conundrum. The book was one of the first modern gender transition memoirs, detailing Morris’ at times torturous path to ‘coming out’ as a woman aged 45 and her experiences thereafter. By no stretch of the imagination were the 1970s some golden age of trans rights – Conundrum attracted mixed reviews, some of them unsympathetic and scathing. But Robinson’s line of questioning was sensitive rather than interrogative, earnest rather than sens…
