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Cruel to be kind

THE STORY OF KATHLEEN STOCK encapsulates the assault on reason that is transgenderism and the symptoms it causes throughout the body politic. Professor Stock was harassed and threatened by activists masquerading as students demanding her dismissal from Sussex University for interrogating the conflicting and incomplete concepts that underpin transgenderism. She is a philosopher who did philosophy, and for that she had to burn. Her trade union, the University and College Union, sided with the mob.

It is commonplace to insist that Professor Stock and others who make when they spring to Professor Stock’s defence.

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