The University of Sussex is located in Brighton, the queerest town in all of the UK, something like a cross between Provincetown, New York City’s Chelsea, and San Francisco’s Castro. The student body of Sussex University is more queer than pretty much any university in the United Kingdom.

Contrary to what the LGB Alliance would like people to believe, the vast majoritylesbian and gay people in the United Kingdom despise transphobia.

So, of course students were up in arms against this faculty member who also happens to be one of the leaders of the LGB Alliance, publicly working against the ordinary civil rights of transgender people, and teaching such concepts in her lectures.

How did she think students on that very queer campus were going to react? Well, I know some of those students, and and they reacted with quite justified, easily predictable outrage.

What’s so ridiculous about this is that the BBC and other media sources are trying to portray this as being primarily about academic freedom. But just imagine how a professor would be treated at a majority Black uni if she were pushing racist notions in her lectures. She’d be run off campus, and few people would have a problem with that.

The BBC is a lost cause, apparently. They are now fully on board with a victrolic anti-trans sentiment that has possessed so many powerful people in the UK.

The only silver lining is that young people like at the University of Sussex are thoroughly pissed off about the normalization of transphobia, and they are pushing back as hard as they can.