Kathleen Stock is the real victim of hate here
She has been subjected to a vicious intimidation campaign simply for speaking her mind.
On Saturday morning I should have been sitting alongside Professor Kathleen Stock in a debate on ‘hate, heresy and free speech’ at the Battle of Ideas festival in London. But this was not how things turned out. Following a week of protests led by self-styled ‘anti-TERF’ activists at the University of Sussex and police concern for her safety, Professor Stock took the difficult – but entirely understandable – decision to stay away.
Stock put out a statement to be read out on her behalf in which she details the ‘campaign of harassment’ she has been subjected to at Sussex. What began with ‘stickers all over my building talking about the “transphobic shit that comes out of Kathleen Stock’s mouth”‘ morphed into ‘posters that named me, defamed me and demanded I be fired’.