eleventy: render a style in a noscript tag in the head

Question

I've got a nunjucks template in _include/partials/head-content.njk that ends with these three lines.

<noscript>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ '/_assets/noscript.css' | asset | url }}"/>
</noscript>

This is rendering as the following HTML in my pages:

<noscript>
  &#x3C;link rel="stylesheet" href="/_site-dev/_merged_assets/noscript.css"/>
</noscript>

How can I get Eleventy to respect this <noscript> tag's contents?

My workaround:

eleventyConfig.addTransform('fix-noscript-style', content =>
  content.replace(`<noscript>&#x3C;link`, '<noscript><link'));