It's more than about me, there's a wider societal context that's emerged, partially through academics and partially through lobbying groups like Stonewall, that trans students (and trans people more generally) are THE most vulnerable group in the UK and that - moreover - the only way to protect them is to affirm any claim they make about their own identity and that any dissent from that must be transphobia, must be transphobic, shouldn't be debated, #NoDebate. That comes from Stonewall. And Stonewall is embedded into my university - my former university - if you look at their website, they've said that they want to be a workplace equality index top 100 employer by 2025, they've made that part of their strategy, and they do all the things that Stonewall ask them to do in order to get there.
Now students who are idealistic and passionate and - probably going through quite a hard time, many of them - have accepted this, you know, why wouldn't they? Their elders have accepted this too, apparently, and that's part of the context. Therefore my pretty moderate book and my pretty moderate views, which always insist on affirming legal protections for trans people and that they absolutely be free of any kind of discrimination or violence, you know those views are just presented as totally heretical, unacceptable and therefore I must be evil. It's literally that kind of extreme.
