Germaine Greer faces backlash over sex swap views

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Germaine Greer has described a petition to ban her from speaking at a university event as a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;put-up job”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The feminist author is scheduled to appear at Cardiff University for a public lecture&comma; Women &&num;038&semi; Power&colon; The Lessons of the 20th Century&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But the university’s Students’ Union women’s officer Rachael Melhuish has launched an online petition urging the institution to cancel the event&comma; citing Ms Greer’s views on transgender people&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the petition&comma; Miss Melhuish said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Greer has demonstrated time and time again her misogynistic views towards trans women&comma; including continually misgendering trans women and denying the existence of transphobia altogether&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;While debate in a university should be encouraged&comma; hosting a speaker with such problematic and hateful views towards marginalised and vulnerable groups is dangerous&period; Allowing Greer a platform endorses her views&comma; and by extension&comma; the transmisogyny which she continues to perpetuate&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She added universities should &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;prioritise the voices of the most vulnerable on their campuses”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But Ms Greer&comma; 76&comma; said she did not understand why she should not be allowed to speak&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Australian academic told the Guardian&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I don’t really know what I think of it&period; It strikes me as a bit of a put-up job really because I am not even going to talk about the issue that they are on about&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;What they are saying is because I don’t think surgery will turn a man into a woman&comma; I should not be allowed to speak&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I do not know why universities cannot hear unpopular views and think about what they mean&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She added that she would not appear at the event next month if the university could not guarantee her safety&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Cardiff University vice-chancellor Professor Colin Riordan said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We are committed to freedom of speech and open debate&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Our events include speakers with a range of views&comma; all of which are rigorously challenged and debated&period; This event will be no different&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Our commitment to our LGBT&plus; &lpar;lesbian&comma; gay&comma; bisexual and transgender&rpar; students and staff members is unwavering and we fully recognise the tremendous benefits having such a diverse community brings to Cardiff University&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We in no way condone discriminatory comments of any kind&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;The petition has so far attracted more than 500 signatures&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed11d313ac4">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; 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