Feminist Graduate Student Instructor Attacked by Students & Colleagues

Defend Feminists has just learned about the case of another feminist under attack.  Laura Tanner, University of California at Santa Barbara graduate student instructor is under attack for supposed “hatred and transphobia.”  On the banner of her twitter page Tanner asserts that “A woman is someone with a female body and any personality… not a ‘female personality’ and any body.  Any other definition is sexism.”  In response, some students and professors have launched an attack on her including a petition that describes what is and is not permissible to teach. Free Speech? Academic Freedom?  What happened to these values?  Read more about it here https://www.feministcurrent.com/2019/06/14/whats-current-us-santa-barbara-students-launch-witch-hunt-against-feminist-instructor/?fbclid=IwAR2y9-kzOt5GDYRx7V5BOBqq1QCD-5-AhitrCmxFZgNCsEvTXDD_lCJxqlI

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