While she was allowed to wear gender-affirming clothing and cosmetics and seek speech and hormone therapy, prison officials forced her to adhere to keep her hair short as a security measure.
The argument, as it did with "Corpus Christi" 10 years ago, often gets framed as a First Amendment fight between those championing freedom of speech and those seeking to stifle speech they object to.
Still, people were interested enough to seek the speech out on cable in above-average numbers.
What did it mean for the hundreds of people I knew who sought out speech therapy to speak more easily?
The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, at the Centre for Policy Studies, in a speech seeking to highlight the benefits of inequality.
And he has not been pushed to address his Mormon faith, which created a stir four years ago and prompted him to give a speech seeking to explain his beliefs.
Hundreds of solemnly dressed students crowded around him after the speech seeking autographs, and several students eagerly said they would vote for him whether he has a chance or not.
The well-received speech, seeking to rewrite the accepted wisdom about her candidacy, may help galvanise the campaign in much the same way Bill Clinton helped revive Barack Obama's listless 2012 effort.
It was a shame, therefore, that he used an otherwise brave speech seeking to clean his own side of the street by calling for a crackdown on the lucrative second jobs held, most usually, by Tory MPs.
Mugabe is not one for admitting to error, but a week before the election he held a rally in Bulawayo, where he confessed to having made the great blunder of his political life, when, on assuming power in 1980, he gave his famous speech, seeking reconciliation with whites.
