The censorship didn’t begin with Kathleen Stock

It’s 2023 and a lesbian requires security guards to speak at the Oxford Union.

That image of Kathleen Stock arriving in Oxford yesterday, looking badass in shades and a baseball cap, surrounded by burly blokes who were tasked with protecting her from assault, shames Oxford university.

This is meant to be one of the highest seats of learning on earth. It’s the university whose name is synonymous with knowledge. And yet here was a thoughtful, moderate woman, a philosopher of repute, having to be spirited on to campus by bodyguards lest some hysteric attack her.

What has gone wrong, Oxford?

Ms Stock’s thoughtcrime is well known. She thinks men are not women. Worse, she thinks a man never becomes a woman, regardless of what he does to his body. This is blasphemy in the eyes of trans activists and their allies in the political class. Stock, to them, is a sinner deserving of censure, or worse.