No, the fight for trans rights has nothing to do with the Holocaust

For the last two-and-a-half years, I have been hounded, attacked and shut down for participating in discussions about sex and transgenderism. My offence? That I believe something that was once accepted as truth: women are women and men are men.

As a law professor, I have used my expertise on human rights to advocate finding a way to ensure that women’s rights and transgender rights are upheld without one or the other group losing their rights. The attacks on me have been varied, from facing a barrage of constant abuse online, being called a Nazi and a ‘TERF’ (trans exclusionary radical feminist – a slur used against women in my position), being de-platformed from events, and having my workplace contacted demanding I be fired. I have even been verbally abused at work and, in one particularly nasty incident, had my office door vandalised. These things are not done by trans individuals but by those – often straight, white men – who call themselves trans allies.