Why so many young women fall for trans ideology

Maeve Halligan on the fierce backlash she faced when setting up a single-sex society at Cambridge.

Topics Feminism Free Speech Identity Politics Politics UK

Maeve Halligan, co-founder of the Cambridge University Society of Women, joins spiked’s Georgina Mumford to discuss the hostility on campus towards gender-critical views, the never-ending fight for free speech in universities, and her Cambridge Union debate with gender fanatic Helen Webberley.

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