London correspondent,
Regularly the scene of skirmishes in the "culture war" that is playing out in the United Kingdom, the prestigious University of Oxford is ignited this time around the "trans" issue. The Oxford Union's invitation to feminist professor Kathleen Stock to deliver a lecture on gender equality on 30 May set fire to the fire. Accusing him of being "transphobic", more than a thousand students want to demonstrate and prevent the event from taking place. The controversy swells, many intellectuals believing that it is freedom of expression on English campuses that is at stake in this sad episode.
Denouncing a desire to gag anyone who does not share his convictions, a group of Oxford professors went to the front. In a letter published by the Telegraph, forty-four of them defended Kathleen Stock's right to express her opinions. Some are renowned academics, such as Richard Dawkins or Nigel Biggar, others are young...
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