A trans row has erupted at one of Britain’s most prestigious universities over an attempt by students to block a gender-critical speaker.
More than 40 academics have signed an open letter to the Oxford University Students Union warning them that freedom of speech is at risk after moves to deplatform Professor Kathleen Stock.
The leading feminist, who was invited to speak by members of the Oxford Union, has been accused by some students of being transphobic over her view that it is fiction to claim “trans women are women.”
Scholars, including evolutionary biologist Professor Richard Dawkins, have now joined forces to publicly oppose the student backlash….