The transgender comedian Eddie Izzard has received that many awards and
honours from British universities that you would think that he'd discovered a
cure for cancer. He has received a number of honorary doctorate degrees and
he's just received another honorary doctorate degree from the University of
Sussex.
This award has been controversial because the University of Sussex was recently fined £585,000 by the Office for Students (OfS) for failing to protect and defend Kathleen Stock, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex, from harassment and bullying by a student mob. Professor Stock was hounded out of her job when she said that people who have a penis are not women and that basic sexual biology, was not blasphemy. There were calls for her to be dismissed and even death threats. Professor Stock resigned her position as Professor of Philosophy in 2021.


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