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Trans ideology and the triumph of feelings over fact

2 June 2023

8:03 PM

2 June 2023

8:03 PM

Most people who have been following the controversy over Kathleen Stock’s speech at the Oxford Union, and who have been observing this debate that combines transgender rights, the rights of women and free speech, might be tempted to conclude that the dispute has its origins in a sole ideology. That is, the transgender ideology which believes that one’s gender and one’s sex can be altered to accord to one’s authentic, inner self.

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