Trans activists fail to shut down PM-backed Oxford Union event

Jun 1, 2023 by

from The Christian Institute:

An attempt by transgender activists to silence the gender-critical views of Professor Kathleen Stock OBE at an Oxford Union event has failed.

Intervening ahead of the talk at the historic debating society, Rishi Sunak said that a ‘vocal few’ had no right to shut down ‘free debate in a free society’.

Hundreds of activists sought to derail the event on Tuesday, after Oxford’s LGBTQ+ society urged the society to ‘no-platform’ the senior academic, branding her “transphobic” for upholding the reality of biological sex.

‘Totally internal’

Professor Stock told those gathered in the Union debating chamber: “What I think is crazy is to try and have laws and policies based on what is essentially something totally internal, that no one else can see”.

“Trans activism tells us all the time, ‘no one can tell you what your gender identity is, only you can know’, and we’re supposed to accept what someone says about their gender identity as soon as they say it”.

She added that “if that is the basis on which people are getting access to certain spaces where women are vulnerable, or sports teams, or short lists, or whatever it is, it’s just way too open” to wrongdoing.

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Professsor Stock describes the event here

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