Princeton Marxists Protest Campus Appearance by 'Trans Epidemic' Speaker

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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