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Kathleen Stock and the danger of just a little knowledge
Kathleen Stock is an ex-philosophy professor who quit her role because she could not handle criticism of her gender critical beliefs. In the years of self-imposed academic exile she has turned that criticism against her into paid opinion pieces, a documentary, and speaking engagements to make ends meet, all the while skating over any criticism of why she quit in the first place or the utter moral bankruptcy of her values. In her recent articles of the right-wing Times she ventures out into areas of psychology and biology she has no academic qualifications for, showing how a little knowledge and a whole hardware store’s worth of axes to grind lead to one of the biggest “pick me” grifters in the gender critical echo chamber.
Much like Maya Forstater, Helen Joyce, and Riley Gaines Stock was once a fringe anti-trans writer whose views were kept to the sorts of Facebook feeds you avoided if you did not want to engage with conspiracy theories. Let us not forget that Maya Forstater was not given a contract extension due to deplorable anti-trans rhetoric on Facebook, and every single gender critic who has emerged over the last six years has started from this baseline. None of them started from the baseline of “women’s rights”, they started from a virulent anti-trans position that has morphed into the current gender critical discourse. Anti-trans was, and…
