Being a man was too much hard work, so I became a woman: Inside the transmaxxing trend where men swap gender to get ‘female’ benefits like cheaper car insurance, free meals and sex

Crippling fear of walking home alone in the dark. The deafening sound of the biological clock ticking. The ever-growing gender pay gap.

Sometimes it can feel as though there aren’t always many benefits to being a woman in 2025 – as generation after generation are discovering the hard way that we can’t, in fact, ‘have it all’.