Mick Hartley

Jo Phoenix at UnHerd on yesterday's Sullivan Report:

There is page after page of personal testimony. It speaks of gender-critical academics being taken through shadowy, Kafkaesque complaints processes and of research ethics committees over-reaching their mandate to subvert the research of academics interested in sex and gender. It goes on to describe actual harassment and bullying….

As if detailing the bigotry faced by gender-critical academics was not enough, the report also tells us something about our universities as a whole. They have become  lawless places where adherence to a political dogma mattered more than the quest for knowledge and truth using the scientific methods of debate, discussion and critique.

For anyone who has been paying attention, the findings of the Sullivan Review should be no surprise. After all, many of us have been sounding the alarm for nearly a decade. We’ve been saying that a small but highly vocal, very disruptive group of academic activists have been using whatever tactics they can to stop any questions or critique of the (frankly) ridiculous idea that humans can change sex.