@Szygy The glibness and facility in the way Upton reels off his schtick speaks of hours and hours (days? Weeks? Months?) of being affirmed by those around him, imho.
His schtick is a script I suspect he has learned from other trans-identifying people (speculation on my part). I have watched trans-identifying influencers and there appear to be common phrases and mannerisms. We talk about 'the TRA bingo card' of these phrases because they've all been brainwashed into reeling off the same nonsense. I would not be surprised if he spent a lot of time during lockdown watching this nonsense (again, speculation). We are allowed to say the 'cult' word on here now, aren't we? I'm glad, because I think that is an appropriate description. Online TRAs describe the realisation that one 'is trans' as one's 'egg cracking'. It's almost as if one has been born again, like a religious conversion. The performance of the new persona must be maintained at all costs and mantras repeated if it is challenged in any way. I do see it as akin to an addiction or obsessive disorder and people who previously might have been pleasant and reasonable can behave in controlling and abusive ways while in the grip of these disorders. Affirming and enabling these behaviours is the worst thing that can be done for the person and everyone else. Unfortunately because of the mess of the law and the ideological capture of medicine and other institutions, there is pressure on us all to go along with this nonsense and most people do not understand how damaging it is to affirm. But everyone who has affirmed Dr Upton has contributed towards fuelling a disordered man's selfish addiction. I really do hope he snaps out of it one day and is able to cope and make amends for the consequences of his actions but all the enabling thus far will have made it incredibly difficult to row back from this. What was needed was for this to be nipped in the bud, his supervisor to say, no, you cannot use the women's changing rooms, without any need to justify and explain, and for his crying and shaking to be met with strong encouragement to take some time off and access psychological support (the problem being that those services are captured too; they need not to be, asap).