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27 October 2015

Let Germaine Greer speak. It’s the fastest way to discredit her

If Greer wants to say that I am a man because I do not conform to a definition of sex/gender which she and an ever-shrinking number of people subscribe, so be it. She will not be the first, or the last.

By Alex Sharpe

The row over Germaine Greer’s right to speak at Cardiff University is in fact two. (i) how do we define sex and gender? and (ii) what are the limits of permissible speech?

It is important to disaggregate these questions. 

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