News Talks podcast: Sussex v OfS – what could it mean for UK HE?

There is no "fine line" to be walked on freedom of speech. Arguing that female spaces should be for females, and that merely claiming you are a female does not make you a female, are not contentious. They are contentious however "on campus" only because campuses, at 90%+ left/progressive, are not diverse and representative environments. That lack of diversity means fringe positions, unfettered by competing between narratives, become mainstream. THIS is why the sector needs a regulator. The lack of diversity in university culture creates exactly the situation where reasonable positions, such as Kathleen Stock held, are hounded out. The entire ecosystem of HE, the THE included, is swimming in this downstream lack of diversity and fail to appreciate how out of touch we are with valid alternative opinion. The gender-critical opinion is a simple one: I, a male, cannot and should not be free to enter female spaces. That is not because I personally pose a risk to women. It is because a small, but disproportionate, number of males pose a risk to females. And as such, myself and all natal post-pubescent males, are rightly discriminated against - that we are discriminated against on account of a small subset of our group is irrelevant. The discrimination is justified. It applies to all of us, irrespective of how we identify, and apart from a few edge cases (of which trans itself isn't one) it applies to all - trans included.