Hate campaign at UK university shows how appeasing trans ideology encourages mob rule
Kathleen Stock, professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex, is currently being targeted by an angry mob of trans activists determined to get her sacked. Posters have been stuck up around campus and on the streets and subways leading to the university. One says: “Kathleen Stock makes trans students unsafe. Sussex still pays her.” Another reads: “It’s Not A Debate. It’s Not Feminism. It’s Not Philosophy. It’s just transphobia and it’s not on. Fire Kathleen Stock.” A third states: “We’re not paying £9250 a year for transphobia. Fire Kathleen Stock.”
Professor Stock is a gender critical feminist and the author of the excellent book, ‘Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism’. She believes that although people should be free to dress however they please and call themselves by any names or pronouns they choose, sex is real and immutable. In 2021, believing that you’re a woman if you have a vagina and if you have a penis then you’re a man is all it takes for people to campaign for you to lose your job, your income and your title.