Mick Hartley

Samiksha Bhattacharjee in the Telegraph – Pro-trans mob made me the most hated student at my university:

Since I re-started the Libertarian Society at University College London, I seem to have become the most hated person on campus. I have lost friends, my group’s treasurer has resigned, and my own students’ union has released a public statement implying they are “devastated” that we hosted a speaker who believes in the reality of biological sex.

This, it appears, is what it is like to be a classical liberal at university. 

Life at the modern university.

The proof that students are starving for that choice was found at the pub after Connie Shaw’s event. Away from the glare of free speech “compliance officers” and activists reading from AI-generated scripts, dozens of students joined us for a pint.

They whispered their support, terrified that a graduate recruiter or a union official might see them. They see the union funding a Gender Expression Fund for beauty products and clothing for transgender people, and they wonder why that same union cannot spare a single word to condemn the sexual harassment of a female speaker.

My university has taught me a painful lesson: that the price of freedom is the loss of belonging and popularity. As long as the alternative is a moral wasteland of conformity and fear, that’s a price I’m willing to pay.