Trans Activism & Free Speech, Kathleen Stock
Channel: Rebel Wisdom
Date: 2021-06-25

The artist Jess de Wahls was cancelled for alleged 'transphobia', and then surprisingly un-cancelled by the Royal Academy in the UK. Is this the first time we've seen a major public body stand up against trans activists, and does it signal a major shift in the dynamics around activism and free speech?

Kathleen Stock is professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex and a veteran of the long and often vicious battles over this topic, and has been attacked and deplatformed many times herself.

She discusses the history of the debate with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller.

Jess de Wahl's original blog post that led to her 'cancelling': https://www.jessdewahls.com/blog/2019/8/5/somewhere-over-the-rainbow-something-went-terribly-wrong

Picture of Kathleen Stock taken by Sonali Fernando