What’s Current: Professor Kathleen Stock resigns from University of Sussex amid harassment from trans activists

  • Dr. Kathleen Stock, a philosophy professor at The University of Sussex, has resigned from her position following prolonged harassment from trans activists. Earlier this month, Dr. Stock was warned by police to avoid the campus for her own safety as students demonstrated against her view that biological sex cannot be changed.
  • Hate crime charges leveled against Scottish feminist Marion Millar have been dropped. Millar was arrested in June over tweets that were alleged to be “transphobic,” one of which was a photo of a suffragette ribbon.
  • A man in Australia has become the first in the nation to be convicted for importing a child-like sex doll. In addition to the doll, investigators found a significant amount of child sex abuse materials.
  • The BBC faced backlash after publishing an article detailing how lesbians have been pressured to accept male partners and accused of transphobia for failing to do so. The hashtag #IStandWithLesbians began trending on Twitter on Thursday.
Genevieve Gluck

Genevieve Gluck is a writer and advocate for women's sex-based rights and creator of Women's Voices, an audio library dedicated to bringing awareness to feminist texts and speeches.