...by someone claiming to be a philosophy graduate student. Maybe she is, and maybe she is leaving because she can't abide people having verboten thoughts and beliefs, and expressing them. But we don't know, do we? (If she's really a grad student leaving the profession for the reasons stated--and not for other reasons--why not sign her name to this? It hardly matters what philosophers think of her going forward, after all.) But it's certainly a dramatic way to encourage others to impose social and professional sanctions on Kathleen Stock (and me and even Justin Weinberg!), which the author explicitly calls for. Will it work? That's up to the academic community; I would hope that academics committed to academic freedom will now go out of their way to invite Professor Stock to speak. I will note that the tweets she quotes from Professor Stock--literally the only evidence of "transphobia" adduced (she adduces none from me, since she can't)--ignore the fact that Professor Stock always uses "male" to mean a biological male, and female to mean a biological female. (Trans women are biological males, that's why they're trans women after all. This isn't hard. And that's compatible with thinking they should be treated as women in most or all contexts.) Readers can decide for themselves whether any of this is evidence of "transphobia.

UPDATE: A number of philosophers have written me about this noxious, and I suspect fraudulent, display, and I apologize that I can't respond to everyone as I'm participating in an intellectual event, and so trying to avoid engaging with the usual social media grandstanding and narcissism as much as possible. But I will share one set of comments from a philosopher elsewhere, since it makes clear the absurdity of this essay: