'I said, 'I respectfully disagree' and thought that was the best place to leave it,' says Kate today.
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Kate asked about how to achieve consensus between competing rights for example, on whether male-bodied trans women should be allowed to visit female-only spaces, such as changing rooms and rape refuges.Īt this, the speaker accused Kate of reducing the issue to 'semantics'.
The baroness had also claimed that trans people are denied human rights. Kate asked about how to bridge this gap, but she wasn't given a straight answer to her apparently simple question. Biological reality, that is, having ovaries, a penis or a particular set of chromosomes, is irrelevant, according to the theory. So, after careful consideration, Kate decided to raise her hand and ask a question that troubles many on the Left: How do you define a woman?Ĭritical theory - the discipline that has come to dominate discussion in the workplace as well as in schools and academia, and for at least one member of the House of Lords - holds that 'gender identity' is a social construct. Kate says she found this view to be 'disconcerting' and suggestive of 'a distaste for negotiation'. The pupil 'remains angry and is disappointed in Jones, calling him vindictive for announcing in his tweet his plans to - as she sees it - trash her online and give a voice to her bullies' She has an intimidating intellect, and seemingly reads Dostoevsky and Socrates for fun.
We meet in a London cafe days after her story broke.Īs she sips her cappuccino, Kate seems wise beyond her 19 years: warm, with a sharp sense of humour. And I said so publicly.Īt this, I was contacted out of the blue by the girl, whose name I have changed to 'Kate'. I thought Jones's tweet expressed a desire to pursue a young female victim of bullying and discredit her, which I considered nothing short of disgraceful. I want to speak anonymously to these girls for their story, so please RT!' Yet what drew me to the case - and to this brave, if unlucky, teenager's plight - was when the trans rights activist and Guardian columnist Owen Jones tweeted on May 17: 'This 'story' - claiming 60 girls drove a girl out of a school for 'questioning trans ideology' - doesn't include their side of the story or even name the school. Rowling - herself the victim of bullies from the fringe element of the pro-trans movement - expressed her disgust at the girl's treatment.
It told of a sixth-form student being hounded out of her private girls' school for alleged 'transphobia'.Īnd it received even wider attention when J. Last month, a story broke in the national Press.
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