Princeton Marxists Protest Campus Appearance by 'Trans Epidemic' Speaker

[Happy New Year]

Radical student group says fighting 'LGBT oppression' is part of
'fight for socialist future'

In the ultimate exhibition of campus intersectionality, student
communists at Princeton University connected their protest of an
author they view as "transphobic" to their fight to end capitalism.


The student flier argues that combating Shrier's book, billed as a
deep dive into what she calls a "trans epidemic" in young girls, was
part of their "fight for a socialist future."

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Revolutionary Student Action is a student branch of Workers' Voice,
an openly Marxist organization that believes "capitalism can only be
overcome through a socialist revolution." Its website, which is
linked on the Princeton flier, says the group's mission is to "pave
the road to communism" and a "classless society free of exploitation
and oppression."

Shrier's Wednesday event was co-hosted by the Princeton Open Campus
Coalition and the Princeton Tory, the school's conservative
newspaper. The event was held at an off-campus location disclosed
only to attendees, organizers told the Free Beacon, to protect
students from harassment from groups like Revolutionary Student
Action, which isn't recognized by the university.

"We are thrilled that the event itself took place without
disruption, but the visceral reaction of certain Princeton community
members is indicative of an ailing culture surrounding open
discourse and robust dialogue," said Myles McKnight, president of
the Open Campus Coalition. "We feel that students should be excited
to engage with differing points of view on controversial issues
about which reasonable people disagree."

Opposition to Shrier's event was not limited to the communist group.
McKnight said several students reported being verbally harassed by
peers who knew they were attending the event. Several students
turned to social media to slam the university for allowing the event
to proceed.

"This woman has openly demonstrated in her twt [sic] feed that she's
arriving on campus with the mission of engaging in transphobic
discourse with princeton [sic] students," one Instagram post shared
with the Free Beacon reads.

Princeton's Gender and Sexuality Resource Center hosted a counter-
event, a "teach-in" on transgender issues, Wednesday night in
collaboration with the Princeton Pride Alliance.

Several prominent figures in recent years have faced backlash for
deviating from the progressive line on transgender issues, both on
college campuses and off. Kathleen Stock, a sex and gender
researcher, resigned from the University of Sussex in October after
mobs of students protested against her belief in the existence of
biological sex. Internationally acclaimed author J.K. Rowling has
been shunned for suggesting that the elimination of sex erases
women—it is widely believed she was left out of the 20th anniversary
celebration of her Harry Potter series because of her comments on
transgenderism.

Shrier posted her full remarks at Princeton shortly after her
appearance, in which she addressed the pushback she's gotten from
many on the left.


The communist letter said Shrier's appearance "put people's lives at
risk by further marginalizing them."


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appearance-by-trans-epidemic-speaker/