There was a later tweet where Lehmann was like "wot, no mathematicians?", and I think the problem here is not that no mathematicians exist who are also contrarian/right-wing cranks, but that science of any kind without reputable peer review is a total non-starter
https://twitter.com/evopsychgoogle/status/1458424991658115078
Obviously the academic humanities also do peer review, etc, but you can fulfil the public podium bullshit-artist thinktank-wanker role without it (indeed, it's really an impediment to that role). Mathematics *by itself* has little to offer in that sphere.
So Kathleen Stock can armchair-philosophise freely about what must be going on in trans people's heads, or how all sexual orientations are exclusive because tightly-coupled to one of the Two Sexes so bisexuals must have two orientations then, stands to reason dunnit...
...because such effusions can be wafted about the public sphere and do their work, ideologically speaking, without reinforcement from academic protocols. But the sciences really cannot do their work without such reinforcement, because it's baked in operationally.
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