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The trans-sceptic academic who now needs bodyguards for protection

25 January 2020

1:48 AM

25 January 2020

1:48 AM

‘You can’t change sex – biologically, that is impossible.’ That, by most people’s standards, is a simple observable truth. But by the standards of campus activists, it is tantamount to hate speech, deserving of merciless retribution.

The quote above is from Selina Todd, a professor of modern history at the University of Oxford.

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