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JK Rowling has slammed musician Billy Bragg as 'homophobic and misogynistic' after he said that lesbians have 'sensibility at odds with their biological reality'.
This comes amid a row over gender-critical academic Kathleen Stock's speech at the Oxford Union on Tuesday which saw trans rights protesters disrupt it after five minutes.
Professor Stock gave the address at the debating club which caused an argument over free speech as activists labelling her 'transphobic and trans-exclusionary' and tried to get the event cancelled.
About five minutes into the event, two activists emerged from the audience waving rainbow flags and threw leaflets before security pulled the pair out. Another student glued themselves to the floor in front of Prof Stock.
Billy Bragg, 65, waded into the debate yesterday on Twitter, comparing Kathleen Stock's experiences as a lesbian to a trans woman featured on Channel 4 documentary Gender Wars.
JK Rowling (pictured) has slammed musician Billy Bragg as 'homophobic and misogynistic' after he said that lesbians have 'sensibility at odds with their biological reality'
Billy Bragg (pictured), 65, compared gender-critical academic Kathleen Stock's experiences as a lesbian to a trans woman featured on Channel 4 documentary Gender Wars
He wrote: 'Watching the Gender Wars doc last night, I was struck by the similarity between the experiences of Kathleen Stock and the trans woman Katy Jon Went. Both testified how they had struggled with their designated sexuality and gender.
'Went sought a number of therapies to avoid changing her body, but only when as a last resort she transitioned did she find instant relief. Likewise Stock spoke of how coming out as a lesbian made her comfortable with herself "I felt like a different person".'
A Twitter user asked if Bragg was confusing preferences with external facts, to which Bragg replied: 'But the issue here is not objects, it's feelings. If Dr Stock says she feels she is a lesbian we believe her.
'Why then do we not believe a trans woman when she says she feels like a woman? Both are responding
