A law student at Abertay University in Scotland is under investigation after she said during a seminar that only women have female anatomy and that males are the physically stronger sex.
Lisa Keogh, 29, is now facing disciplinary action in the final year of her studies at the college, according to The Times.
The lecturer leading the video seminar reportedly muted Keogh after she raised concerns about transgender females — biological males — participating on women’s sports teams. She pointed out that a transgender female “would be genetically stronger than your average woman,” because of natural testosterone levels.
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When she first received an email about the investigation over her comments, Keogh said she thought “it was a joke.” As it turns out, some of her classmates reported her for suggesting women are the “weaker sex.”
“I thought there was no way that the university would pursue me for utilizing my legal right to freedom of speech,” Keogh said.
She condemned some of her classmates as “man-hating feminists” after one student suggested all males are rapists and pose a danger to females.
The law student added she had no intention of being “offensive,” but wanted to take part in a discussion about her “sincerely held views.”
“I was abused and called names by the other students, who told me I was a ‘typical white, cis girl,’” Keogh recalled. “You have got to be able to freely exchange differing opinions. Otherwise, it’s not a debate.”
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Abertay’s “health and wellbeing framework” bars faculty, staff, and students from actions that are “reasonably considered by that person to have the effect of violating their dignity or of creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for them, even if this effect was not intended by the person responsible for the conduct.”
Scottish politician Joanna Cherry is defending Keogh.
The parliament member said she has reached out to the university to ask what steps its administration has taken to protect students’ rights to free speech.
“Ms. Keogh is being subjected to a disciplinary procedure in which the ultimate sanction is expulsion, for stating opinions based on biological fact and objecting to sweeping statements such as ‘all men are rapists.’”
News of Keogh’s treatment at Abertay comes on the heels of news that a Spanish politician, Francisco José Contreras, was suspended from Twitter for 12 hours after he tweeted that a man “cannot get pregnant” because he has “no womb or eggs.”
In response to the decision from the social media giant, Contreras wrote, “The hateful tweet (which I was forced to delete) was one that said: ‘A man cannot get pregnant. A man has no womb or eggs.’ You can see this is already fascist biology. Next time I’ll try 2 + 2 = 4.”
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