'The rights and wrongs of what has happened in recent years regarding the experience and sufferings of transgender people have ended up as a polarised and difficult area of discourse, affecting women’s lives and rights far more than men’s. In the current situation, Raymond is a clear about the erosion of women’s rights and safety in what should be the safest, most pluralistic arena of all: academia,' writes Juliette Hughes
Dr. Ewan Forbes-Sempill, who was born Elizabeth in 1912, announced in 1952 that they had changed their name and re-registered their birth as that of a male after living as a man since the 1930s.