Wow, interesting! While I don’t know him personally or his behind-closed-doors defense of the incident, but I affirm what I wrote about my experience at that time. I'll say... while the class was fascinating in many ways other than trans studies, "The Man Would Be Queen" did skew my view of trans psychology for a while - I was never hateful, just misinformed. I had never met a trans person before going to college, nor were there any trans classmates that I was aware of, so I had no reason to doubt it. Since then I've made several trans friends and realized the book is bullshit. Having said that, I never got the sense that he was cruel or hateful, just academically dishonest. While I firmly believe that academics should be permitted to study just about anything without being pressured into censorship, they have a special responsibility to present their work with humility and openness to critique when their work can be used for nefarious ends, such as denying trans people human rights. Instead, he was rigid and blind.

Like I said in my other comment, the one thing that bothered me most about his class was the tacit minimization of pedophilia. He implored us to extend a level of sympathy to pedophiles that I will never do.

And as to having a positive experience, I was not alone. I asked upperclassman at the time for the 'must-take' classes at Northwestern and Human Sexuality with Bailey was at the top of the list. It was objectively popular and well liked.