Lorraine correctly predicts backlash over interview with trans row academic: ‘Why are you giving her a platform?’
metro.co.uksupports HTML5 videoA Lorraine interview with the academic who resigned from her job following backlash over hew views on trans people has divided viewers, with many asking why the professor was given a platform at all.Kathleen Stock, who has an OBE for her contribution to higher education, stepped down from her post as a philosophy professor at Sussex University last month following calls for her to be sacked over her stance on gender identity in what students called the ‘Stock Out’ campaign.However, during her interview with Lorraine Kelly on Monday’s programme, Stock insisted she’s not transphobic just moments after saying that inviting trans men and women into changing rooms makes them unisex.Lorraine stressed that while she ‘disagreed’.
