Never mind the serious reputations, the accents, the swagger, the BBC connections, the Guardian column, the KC status, the rave book reviews, or whatever it is - like no other issue, trans ideology shows up people who are really quite stupid. Lots of people still being too charitable in replies, saying the cult made them that way, motivated reasoning will do that to you, etc. But also: cults attract uncritical dullards, and clever people avoid such a degree of motivating reasoning in first place.

This by @byrne_a gives a sense of surreal environment for academic philosophers arguing that woman=adult human female, subject to slurs and (worse) preposterous counterarguments from ideologues, while institutions like OUP roll over #philosophytwitter
quillette.com/2023/04/17/phi… Just to add: the treatment of @aytchellesse by @OUPPhilosophy is truly abysmal, so plainly motivated by abject cowardice and/or rancour from internal enemies, abandoning all normal standards for dealing with a highly competent author. I'd never publish with them again myself.