In a statement given to the VictoriaLIVE show on BBC Two, the veteran feminist campaigner issued her strongest criticism yet of the trans lobby:
“Just because you lop off your dick and then wear a dress doesn’t make you a f**cking woman. I’ve asked my doctor to give me long ears and liver spots and I’m going to wear a brown coat but that won’t turn me into a f**cking cocker spaniel.
“I do understand that some people are born intersex and they deserve support in coming to terms with their gender but it’s not the same thing. A man who gets his dick chopped off is actually inflicting an extraordinary act of violence on himself.”
The controversy started when students at Cardiff University launched a petition to ban Ms. Greer from speaking at an event called ‘Women & Power: The Lessons Of The 20th Century’ due to her “misogynistic views towards trans women, including continually misgendering trans women and denying the existence of transphobia altogether.”
Greer then appeared on BBC Newsnight to say she was “not about to walk on eggshells”,adding:
“Apparently people have decided that because I don’t think that post-operative transgender men are women, I’m not to be allowed to talk.”