Oxford History Professor given security guards after threats

the barbarians are at the gate.

Do you think it is an intellectual fad that will eventually pass, or is it game over for the liberal arts at western universities?

It almost feels like the better the university, the worse the w@nky wokiness...

i guess the same thing happened when printed books were made available to every Thibault, Rufus and Hereward

This story is not what most people think it is.

This woman is a feminist and this story is an example of the current war going on inside feminism between pro-transgender and anti-transgender feminists. The anti-transgender feminists hate the idea that men can now change to women. This is the only reason why they oppose transgenderism.

Physical fights are common between the two sides. People reading these news articles think that this woman is probably conservative or right wing. You should not fall for this trap. She is not. This woman is a hardcore liberal and probably even a leftist extremist. The reasons that she opposes transgenderism is not because she believes transgenderism is wrong or she spouses free speech. It is because she hates men.

This story is not what most people think it is.

This woman is a feminist and this story is an example of the current war going on inside feminism between pro-transgender and anti-transgender feminists. The anti-transgender feminists hate the idea that men can now change to women. This is the only reason why they oppose transgenderism.

Physical fights are common between the two sides. People reading these news articles think that this woman is probably conservative or right wing. You should not fall for this trap. She is not. This woman is a hardcore liberal and probably even a leftist extremist. The reasons that she opposes transgenderism is not because she believes transgenderism is wrong or she spouses free speech. It is because she hates men.

There's something really strange going on here - the university decided the threats meant she needed a security detail for her own safety but there's been absolutely no police involvement or disciplinary action against those making the threats? They say threats and yet the only thing the article references is people challenging her teaching for being ahistorical and erasing historical trans people?

Obviously if there are threats, that can't be condoned, but from what's printed it sounds more like a bog-standard reactionary trying to shut down any criticism of academic ideas by pretending to be a victim despite the lack of a power structure behind it and reversing the actual flow of violence (which is near solely done to trans rights advocates)

There's definitely more to the story than is shown in the Telegraph article OP cites, which ignores for example the fact that Todd is a supporter of Women's Place UK.
https://cherwell.org/2019/11/01/university-facilitated-the-spread-of-transphobia-says-trans-action-oxford/

WPUK is condemned by anti-transphobia groups, but it has a lot of support and personally I am on their 'side' in that I don't like the reflexive auto-hate from the trans community that seems to be their reaction to any critiques of proposed government policies towards the issue, like for example access to women's toilets, changing rooms, etc.

Selina Todd seems to be a good woman as far as I can tell from her published statements and this is an important story, but we also need to have all the facts in newspaper stories about it and not only selected ones.

There's something really strange going on here - the university decided the threats meant she needed a security detail for her own safety but there's been absolutely no police involvement or disciplinary action against those making the threats? They say threats and yet the only thing the article references is people challenging her teaching for being ahistorical and erasing historical trans people?

Obviously if there are threats, that can't be condoned, but from what's printed it sounds more like a bog-standard reactionary trying to shut down any criticism of academic ideas by pretending to be a victim despite the lack of a power structure behind it and reversing the actual flow of violence (which is near solely done to trans rights advocates)

I mean, that's fair though given access to gendered spaces has been granted through the equality act for a decade now without any real issue (rather than through the GRA which is constantly suggested in column inches by people who want to sow division). Unsurprisingly people are tired of takes with absolutely no factual information in them being used as an attack

It says 'sex', not 'gender' in the EA - that's the whole issue.

because WPUK are a hate group and nothing more and as such do not want to see the minority they've chosen to demonise being afforded basic human dignity.

You do know that just because they don't agree with your view that doesnt make them a 'hate group' right?

Of course it doesn't. The fact that they're a group organised entirely around bigotry and the proliferation of it is what makes them a hate group.

Oh hardly, again just because you dont like their position doesnt mean you get to brand them with those delightfully, err, tasteful terms.
If anything, doesnt your resolute hatred for them and their politics make you guilty of the aforementioned?