its uncomfortable to be gc in publishing at the moment. the t is so embedded in the lgb and black lives matter, you do look like a bigot if you say anything.
OTOH, fiction is one of the areas that has managed to stay out of their claws. Imagine if novelists had to be constantly walking on eggshells; if it were taboo to recognise characters as male or female, if they had to be constantly asking each other for pronouns etc, just in case they were trans! If words like cis were mandatory and everyone had to be defined accordingly! If it had to be assumed that men could get pregnant and have periods, and women could have penises...
About a year ago I was a member of a FB group of editors. I used to ask questions there about writing and get sound answers. Then one day one of the professional editors (US based of course) posted something about correctly inclusive language -- what gender-inclusive language editors should replace traditional phrases and words with.
It was awful.
So I barged in and said that such changes would be the ruin of good fiction, and they'd better not interfere as fiction authors probably wouldn't stand for it.
Within minutes I had dozens of angry faces (maybe one or two likes) and people replying angrily to what I'd said and how transphobic and bigoted I was. Next thing I knew, I was expelled from the group.