Prof Rogerson refused to apologise but acknowledged there were ‘difficult and complex discussions’ around trans matters
A Cambridge college master who is under fire for calling a gender-critical speaker “hateful” has written to alumni after furious donors said they were considering pulling their funding.
Prof Pippa Rogerson, head of Gonville and Caius College, wrote to graduates last week saying that free speech was ‘fundamental’.
It comes after Helen Joyce, an author and former Economist journalist, was invited to the college by Prof Arif Ahmed, a fellow, for a debate on gender ideology.
But Prof Rogerson joined Dr Andrew Spencer, the college’s senior tutor, in emailing all of the students vowing to boycott the talk because Ms Joyce’s views were “offensive, insulting and hateful to members of our community who live and work here” and “polemics”.