Tourism into the US is also down in general. You can disparage this particular academic all you want, but unfortunately when you start deporting foreign nationals with valid visas you don't get to pick and choose the second and third-order effects. It's not just academics—and not just the academics you personally find silly—that are choosing to not visit the US.

> Where would we be without a thorough understanding of diverse trans psychiatric history?

You write about this as if there was something wrong with study of psychiatric care for trans people or for non-whites. Trans have above average suicide rates, they have own specific issues. It 100% makes sense to study it.

That large parts of population actively want them to suffer does not mean psychiatry should not study those.

This reaction is why my friends stopped going to the US[0]. I mean, French do have their smug people too (we even have a saying: 'il pète plus haut que son cul'), but very rarely those as derogatory as USians.

[0] before Trump 2.