An Oxford University chief has waded into a trans row that has rocked the institution.
Professor Martin Williams—one of Oxford’s pro-vice-chancellors—said students must “encounter and confront difficult views” after attempts to ban a gender-critical speaker from a university event.
Leading feminist Kathleen Stock has been invited to speak by members of the Oxford Union at an upcoming debating event, but her scheduled appearance received a student backlash.
She was accused by some students as being transphobic over her gender identity views which include that it is fiction to claim “trans women are women.”
Attempts to deplatform the philosopher were condemned in an open letter signed by more than 40 of Oxford’s dons including evolutionary biologist Professor Richard Dawkins….