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Law Professor threatened with rape and murder after saying, “a woman is defined by law as biological not psychological.”


A UK professor has received a barrage of abuse after suggesting a woman is defined by law as biological, not psychological.

Rosa Freedman, Professor of Law, at The University of Reading, posted a series of tweets detailing the backlash. “I found my office door covered in urine,” Professor Freedman said.

“People are continuously calling my phone from an anonymous number, and when I answer I am laughed at and told that I am a ‘TERF’ who ‘should be raped and killed.'”

“If this is how a University Professor is treated, little wonder that women who work in jobs without protection regarding academic enquiry… feel unable to speak up to protect women’s rights,” Professor Freedman added.

The professor’s detailed account can be read below:


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