I did read the whole article.
What did you think about these parts of it goldfish?
Cardiff University students banned a lecture by the one-time feminist icon Germaine Greer. Their charge was that she was guilty of ‘transphobia’, for saying that she couldn’t regard a man who wished to switch gender as really a woman, because he hadn’t grown up with the experience of being a woman from birth.
...few were more resentful of the new transgender obsession than the more radical feminists, who strongly objected to the idea of men who had ‘changed sex’ being allowed to use women’s changing rooms or being sent to female prisons.
Of particular concern was the case of Martin Ponting, someone then calling themselves a woman but retaining male genitalia, who had been found guilty of raping two women. After insisting on being sent to a female prison, Ponting promptly began to make sexual advances to other inmates.
Meanwhile, in September 2017, when the chairman of the Commons Women and Equalities Committee was leading calls for an amendment to the 2010 Equality Act, to change the legal definitions of ‘man’ and ‘woman’, a group of feminists arranged a meeting to discuss ‘What is gender? ’
This so outraged the militant transgender activists, who classified them as ‘Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists’ or TERFS (with such slogans as ‘TERFS must die’), that they determined to prevent the meeting taking place.
one 60-year-old bespectacled feminist photographing the scene was smacked in the face by a burly ‘hooded, male- bodied’ transgender, who smashed her camera to the ground. This was justified by other transgenders, who claimed that they were made to feel ‘unsafe’ by the ‘systemic violence’ of those who disagreed with them, and that physical retaliation was only ‘self-defence’.
Equally disconcerting was the experience of James Caspian, an academic and psychotherapist at Bath Spa University. Himself gay, he had become a respected expert on transgender issues.
However, he had been increasingly troubled by evidence that a rising number of people, particularly women, had, after ‘transitioning’ to the opposite sex, wanted to change back.
To pursue this idea, Caspian applied to his university for a grant to produce a study entitled ‘An examination of the experience of people who have undergone gender reassignment procedures and/or have reversed a gender transition’.
He said he was well aware that his findings would not be regarded as ‘politically correct’ but, with the issue being so one-sidedly promoted, he wanted to see the other side of the argument properly discussed.
Bath Spa rejected his grant application on the grounds that ‘the posting of unpleasant material on blogs or social media may be detrimental to the reputation of the university’.