‘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. And for daring to express what most other people in this country would take to be common sense, she has been marginalised and threatened.
Today the Telegraph reveals that she has been assigned two bodyguards to accompany her to all of her lectures for the rest of the year, after threats were made against her and circulated online.
Todd has for months been treated by trans activists as if she is some kind of bigoted thug who needs to be chased off campus. She has been labelled a ‘transphobe’ and subjected to complaints insisting that it would be ‘impossible’ for her to teach trans students.
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