Kathleen Stock on BBC Woman's Hour today

Thanks for the heads-up. I deleted the WH podcast as it had clearly lost its way. I've just re-installed (and I note that Kathleen is named in the descriptor).

As others have said, she's everything I'd have valued in a university lecturer and exactly what I'd want for my children: intelligent, informed, decent, measured. I have a copy of her book so I'm now just wondering who I should buy copies for.

Seeing again this creep towards 'LGBTQ+ is not a characteristic shared by widely diverse people but is a name for a political position. LGBTQ+ people not sharing that view are other, and not entitled to the letters or protections or support from the charities claiming to represent them'.

Which means, essentially, having bounced all the LGBTQ+ out of LGBTQ+ who don't hold that political position, the lobby groups representing them can give the impression that all LGBTQ+ people hold these views and want these things and that LGBTQ+ people are being heard and supported. Instead of it actually being a political group who has successfully disenfranchised and hidden the voices of LGBTQ+ people who have other needs, opinions, politics and views.

Peter Bottomley is a very brave and honourable man. When the Peace Process first started I went to see Martin McGuinness speak. Bottomley was among the people on the platform. Not many Tories would take that risk. So I'm not too surprised he has spoken out in defence of Professor Stock.

Here

There really are people (by which I mean academics) out there arguing that 2+2=5 and anyone who disagrees is a bigot.

That's what KS was up against. That's what we are up against.

I saw on Twitter it was Liam Hackett, dunno if it’s true

I find Peter Bottomley's comments fantastic, when you consider that Stock has been abandoned by the Left, with Taiwo Owatemi actually criticising her.
It makes me think of that wonderful sketch in the Mitchell and Webb experience where 2 nazis start to think that they might be the bad guys. Except, of course, Labour (and the Greens, and Lib Dems) will NEVER learn.

I listened to the Stonewall statement about working to ensure that all LGBTQ+ people feel safe and comfortable at work and thought how utterly they’d failed lesbian Prof Stock. Wankers!

So happy they are having a baby. Lovely.
Yes indeed, to Prof Stock and wife, so pleased they have something 100% amazing to look forward to whatever else is going on.

Also particularly chuffed to hear about her getting positive feedback from former trans student recently. Whoever you are, you did a good thing getting in touch at this time, must be reassuring for the professor.

I hope the academics who instigated this campaign of bullying are shitting themselvs now.
But Im evil, so...

Bravo Kathleen.

It is really quite useful to hear the interview and then the trotted out mantras and cliches at the end, it's impossible to hear those and not think... you what??

For some reason on a university campus this is tolerated - but imagine going to any other workplace: an office, a school, a building site, etc. and seeing your name plastered all over slanderous posters at every corner, with people yelling that you should be fired, your reputation being trashed online, and everyone staring at you as if you're some kind of Disney villain. I can't imagine how shit that would feel.

I've already told DS he's not getting a cent of help from me to do
a postgraduate degree at Sussex or any of the other malignant intellectual shitholes of note.

Happily, he agrees. He doesn't need to be paying good money to look at any more power point biology slides referring to 'the gender of organisms' and 'the gender of mammals'. In the UK. They may as well be teaching creationism.

Grace Lavery apparently did a Master's at Sussex. Might they have accrued an honorary doctorate from there?

I've submitted my (positive) feedback. Such a relief that WH are finally covering this issue after studiously ignoring it for so long.

I had it on in the background and wasn't listening, I heard him mention Kathleen Stock, and I thought he was against her, so pleased to hear he was backing her!

I doubt it's Richard Dawkins. Or Paul McCartney.

I was a bit surprised because Bottomley turned out for the recent LGB Alliance conference which was courageous of him but all's well now.

I think they need to hear that students are being put off

So who was he referring to ie who is the honorary doctor who spoke out against KS?

Oh god, I'm cross-posting with x-posts now!

As you were.

b) And anyway, doctorates - actual, earned doctorates - can't be stripped from people, not even women

Which is good because of all the wanky titles I have a retired academic and board luminary, 'Dr' is the one of which I am most proud tbh. I worked for that bastard.

I’m sorry! I stand corrected! I completely misheard!

Peter Bottomley. Was a man ever better named...a total arse!

hope no one else heard it as Knighton did!