These academics’ work ripples out into wider society. Some of their ex-students become teachers or HR professionals, and pass on what they have learned to children or write it into company policies. Together with campaigners and lobbyists in human rights and health care, they form an interest group that far outnumbers transgender people themselves. Their interests are in spreading their ideology and keeping their jobs, rather than in making trans people’s lives better. And they bring to mind the famous remark of the American writer Upton Sinclair, that ‘it is difficult to get a man to
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