When I hear stories of enraged parents like Nigel Rowe, 44, and his wife Sally, 42, who removed their six-year-old son from an unnamed school after a male classmate was allowed to attend the primary school in a dress, it makes me wonder what some parents must think about me.

A transgender classmate can be ignored, isolated and bullied. It’s harder to ignore your lecturer when, in a dress, tights, court shoes and makeup, he’s - actually I go by the she pronoun these days - stood at the front of the lecture theatre telling you what you need to know to pass the course.

What must those parents of those fresh-faced freshers - I teach anything up to 500 in a given session - be thinking? The Rowe’s would no doubt be horrified. As they might a school in Milwaukee that organised an ‘official cross-dressing day’ and polled a thousand parents on a number of statements. 44 per cent agreed with the statement ‘This is the latest form of perverse indoctrination from leftists ensconced in public education.’ 19 per cent agreed that ‘This extreme perversion borders on child abuse.’ However, while 7 per cent agreed with the statement ‘What a clever way to sow gender confusion in hundreds of children at once’, nobody agreed with the statement ‘It’s good to break down hetero-fascist biases.’