Thank you Rosa 
I hope other academics will stand with you and others who have put their heads above the parapet.
Professor Selina Todd from Oxford has also obliquely “come out” as GC - mainly by retweeting other GC material. I’ve seen a couple of attempts to whip up a frenzy against her on Twitter by other academics, shamefully.
This is the link to Selina Todd's comment: selinatodd.com/being-an-academic-online/
Postscript
"Since writing the above, I’ve been made aware of the need to fight for our right to freedom of speech, both at work and beyond. As a gender critical feminist, I face intimidation via social media about expressing my views, sharing the evidence that informs those views, and calling for a debate. Like every other gender critical feminist I know, I encountered the current debate about whether transgender people should be able to self-identify as such (without fulfilling other legal and medical requirements) from the instinctive standpoint that I wanted to support transpeople’s rights. But after months of research, I concluded that this position would harm the rights of women, because so often what is being asked for is free access to women-only spaces. I then began to question the whole premise that someone can ‘transition’ from being a man to a woman or vice versa. You can’t change sex – biologically, that is impossible. And the notion that people can ‘feel’ like a woman or like a man seems socially conservative, implying as it does that being a woman rests on dressing or behaving in a ‘feminine’ way. Being a woman rests both on certain biological facts and on the experience of living in the world as a woman, from birth, an experience that is shaped by particular kinds of oppressions. A movement that claims to be advocating a liberating kind of ‘fluidity’ is in fact reinforcing and promoting highly conservative gendered stereotypes.
Very often the implication is that precisely because I am an academic, I should not be allowed to express these views because my position means that I should know better. There are two problems with that (il)logic. First, it seems inconsistent for a group of people who claim that their own identities are fluid to claim that I can only ever act in my role as a professor at Oxford University, whether I am at work or not. But second, there is every reason why someone whose day job is in academia should defend open, evidence-based debate. But there’s a third problem, too. This is about shutting women up, as Kathleen Stock – another academic who has faced bullying and harassment for her views – has written. Because women academics tend to shoulder the lion’s share of pastoral and welfare work, being threatened with student complaints about not feeling ‘safe’ in our presence can be particularly personally hurtful and professionally harmful. Such tactics can work – because behind the overwork and the constant exhortations to use social media and publish, publish, publish, lie the fears of many women that they simply will not get jobs or get publications if they speak out on this issue (Stocks herself has tweeted about this). Fortunately, though, there are a growing number of feminist academics who are speaking out, refusing to be bullied and demanding that we challenge the boundaries of academia, focusing less on the quantity of tweets, articles, books that we produce, and more on who sets the boundaries of what we’re allowed to say and dare to dream about the role of universities in promoting debate."
I have heard Selina Todd speak and enjoyed her recent book, 'The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010'