I'll say it again: yes, the general political opinions skew left. However, this does not mean much for conservatives in academia. The assertion keeps being brought up that because more people are left-leaning, there's pressure against conservative ideas. Of course there are incidences of this, but I really disagree that the general leftist sentiment translates into a culture *against* conservative scholarship. This is where I'm disagreeing, you seem to think people can't get published or hired if they're conservative, that there's some legitimate systemic bias against these people, and I'm saying it's all self-selection. Conservatives simply don't care about gender or ____, so they don't study those topics. Nobody is stopping them from going in and writing good, scholarly work contradicting these things.
What's unnerving to many left-leaning people is now conservatives seem to want to censor these fields rather than engage in them critically. So long as your narrative is that conservative ideas on gender are blocked from academia, it feels fuzzier and easier to agree with than "conservatives don't like these ideas but don't want to read enough to write a decent response".
If you think this isn't a relevant concern, countries like Hungary
are legitimately trying to
censor gender studies.