@murasaki Yeah, the article above saying he was publicly outed made me smile a little at the absurdity.
Interesting you say bekind was in play. My memory in the dept was that it just wasn't treated as anything remarkable at all, and nobody thought to treat him any differently to another lecturer and nobody referred to him as she rather than Dr or him. Although as an undergrad I probably saw very little.
I suppose these days you'd probably have documents, training and fellow students telling people how to behave and what the right views are. I wasn't aware of anything like that back then and good luck to anyone trying to tell that wonderful bunch of physics oddballs what to think.
Probably different to the environment in college. Wonder if in a similar position idiot teenage me would have joined the protests against Greer. Hmm, probably.