Julie Bindel Julie Bindel

The gender identity issue: Kathleen Stock puts her head above the parapet

The philosopher is accused of transphobic bigotry merely for suggesting that the subject of biological sex should be discussed rationally

Kathleen Stock. Credit: Sonali Fernando 
issue 15 May 2021

‘Something is afoot,’ wrote the academic philosopher Kathleen Stock in 2018:

Beyond the academy, there’s a huge and impassioned discussion going on around the apparent conflict between women-who-are-not-transwomen’s rights and interests and transwomen’s rights and interests. And yet nearly all academic philosophers — including, surprisingly, feminist philosophers — are ignoring it.

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