&gt; she appears to identify as trans herself<p>no, she doesn&#x27;t. she&#x27;s a cis-gendered lesbian. she was born female and still identifies as female nor has she ever done otherwise as far as I know.<p>I&#x27;m surprised its your first time hearing about Camille Paglia though. She&#x27;s moderately famous (in my circles anyway). Has been stirring the pot in the academia&#x2F;inteligentisa scene for decades now.<p>She&#x27;s a very iconoclastic and contrarian thinker and has made enemies on both the left and the right. Her ideas are fairly deep and well thought out though and a lot of the controversy she finds herself in is basically the media trolling their audience with inflammatory out-of-context quotations.<p>Not to say Paglia isn&#x27;t sometimes deliberately inflammatory. She can light it up with the best of them.