Allowing self-identification is not part of the UK government’s plan in supporting transgender people, equalities minister Kemi Badenoch said on Sunday. The remarks came after a university professor resigned following a campaign to get her fired over her view on gender. Kathleen Stock, a philosophy professor at the University of Sussex who opposes transgender self-identification, announced her resignation on Thursday, weeks after an anonymous group of transgender activists demanded the university fire her. Despite having the support of the university’s leadership, the gender-critical feminist professor said she wanted to put behind her the “absolutely horrible time” fending off accusations from transgender activists. Speaking on the Sky News’s “Trevor Phillips On Sunday” programme, Badenoch said the government doesn’t believe self-ID should be allowed. The government’s position is to do everything it can to support “LGBT people, but trans people in particular when it comes to health care,” Badenoch said. “However, we do not think that goes as …
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