A British university has defended one of its professors after a campaign called her “one of this wretched island’s most prominent transphobes” and demanded her to be fired. The University of Sussex said on Thursday that the effort to get philosophy professor Kathleen Stock fired was disturbing and that the university will not tolerate threats to academic freedoms. Stock, who is known for her book “Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism,” has been at odds with some transgender activists since 2018, when she said that while “most trans people are law-abiding and wouldn’t dream of harming anyone,” trans women shouldn’t be in spaces such as females dress rooms “in a completely unrestricted way” because many of them “are still males with male genitalia” and “are sexually attracted to females.” A self-described “anonymous, unaffiliated group of queer, trans, and non-binary students,” who named their group “Anti-TERF Sussex,” recently set up an Instagram …