Trans activists aim to make women fearful of speaking openly about gender. And they're succeeding
The online mob may have failed to intimidate JK Rowling and Kathleen Stock, but they have chilled public debate nonetheless
Stories of women being subjected to abuse from extreme trans activists no longer have the power to shock. We have grown used to gender critical academics having urine thrown at their office doors or needing bodyguards to accompany them to lectures simply for defending women’s sex-based rights. We watched as Kathleen Stock was hounded out of her Professorship at the University of Sussex.
JK Rowling has long been a target for the woke mob. She has questioned the erasure of the word "woman" and, recalling her own past experience of domestic abuse, argued that women need access to single sex spaces. In response, she is routinely sent graphic rape threats and has received "enough death threats to paper [her] home".
This week, the Harry Potter author has reminded us why we must never turn a blind eye to the abuse faced by women who speak out in defence of their sex.