When UCL students invited me to give a talk on women’s rights, I was greeted by an angry mob

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“People don’t like you because of the bigotry and hatefulness you spread. UCL students don’t welcome you at our university… nobody wants you here.”

Students who had come to the talk to listen and discuss responded in chorus saying “I do”, “we do”. It was marvellous. I wonder if, in the future, the male students will look back and cringe at the fact they tried to stop a young woman from speaking about her lawful right to single-sex spaces.

The event was on the whole very successful. Students challenged me and we had a great discussion. Even more importantly, there were many gender-critical students who had come on their own. Some told me that they had been nervous to attend, because they had to walk past the protest to get in.

But, inside, they were able to meet like-minded people who they could speak freely with. They did not have to self-censor over fears of being ostracised.

Full article at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/06/how-i-stood-up-to-pro-trans-bullies-who-tried-to-silence/

Can also be read at https://archive.is/JDH3d

(My extracts are the positive bits, the rest of it sounds pretty scary )

Oh dear god 🤦🏻‍♀️
Amd yet UCL was the first university to oust Stonewall (after an open letter signed by many academic staff) - and is home to a couple of very prominent voices in the world of academic feminism (I know what I mean).
I work there and I knew nothing about the talk but I’m glad that some brave students went and took part in the debate.
UCL did host a conference/event a couple of years back that attracted a very loud gaggle of pot banging protesters - I did go to that.
Despite what some of the current students might think there are a surprising number of highly intelligent and articulate terfs at UCL doing great things, quietly getting on with it.

Surely threatening and hostile behaviour would result in being kicked out of university? Don’t they have to abide by tolerant values as part of the contract?

I dont understand why that doesn't happen. This isn't about having a discussion of different viewpoints. This is about intimidation.

I thought after what happened at Brighton however long ago it was, that Universities were meant to ensure that intimidation and harassment didn't take place.

I did quite like this part

"A petition was set up by UCL’s “LGBTQ Network” demanding that the student union cancel the event. They claimed that my views encourage “the exclusion and fear of trans students”. Five people signed the petition."

Five! Says it all really.

😂

At Edinburgh university and other TRA protests I believe that protestors wore masks. Those who were not university students didn’t.

I do wonder if face masks should be banned for protestors!!

Menno was there filming. It’s staggering that these students most likely talk about misogyny and patriarchy and safe spaces yet think it’s totally ok to try and intimidate a woman like that, chanting her name and slurs about her. She’s not JKR or some massive untouchable figure, she’s just a couple of years older than them.

@juniperyI love Mr Menno!
He did a great job of capturing how nonsensical the situation was.
What awful, cowardly hypocrites those students are. Just awful, so deluded in their self righteousness. So brave in their masks!