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2025-09-01
Earlier this week, the Daily Mail reported that University College London (UCL) is continuing to allow men into women's toilets and changing rooms. I struggled to understand why this was news - after all, it's no secret that universities across the UK are proudly ignoring April's Supreme Court ruling, which affirmed the right of women to have single-sex spaces. No, what struck me most was that all the UCL academics the Mail spoke to chose to remain anonymous.
The apparent reason for their anonymity was not a fear of repercussions from their employer or the journals they publish in, nor of the backlash they would inevitably face from their own students. According to the article, they were reluctant to speak publicly because they have fallen at the last, most disappointing hurdle - that is, they fear being 'vilified' by their colleagues.
I'm not having a pop at those UCL academics specifically for remaining anonymous. This is, after all, a nationwide issue, and the Mail report is just another reminder of it. Yet we must all surely be fed up with the collective silence of those academics who keep their gender-critical views quiet. Clearly, there is no shortage of academics who are willing to publicly profess their opposition to women's rights - over 2,000 of them signed an open letter declaring as much following the Supreme Court ruling. Where, though, are all the feminist voices in academia?
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