Police remove activist who glued hand to floor during gender critic’s talk

Oxford police removed a protester who sat with a hand glued to the Oxford Union floor to protest Kathleen Stock’s speech today.

Stock, an English philosopher who has affirmed the male-female binary and argued that gender should not trump sex in all circumstances, spoke at the Oxford Union despite major protests leading up to the event as well.

Twitter user @rizpossnett, whose handle includes “they/them pronouns,” wore a t-shirt that read “NO MORE DEAD TRANS KIDS.”

“Possnett was glued to the floor in front of the speakers and refused to move, while two other protesters stood up at different ends of the room, shouting and handing out leaflets,” The Telegraph UK reported.

The police eventually removed Riz Possnett and walked the individual out of the debate society building as some attendees clapped, according to a video posted to Twitter today by TalkTV journalist Oliver Whitfield-Miočić.

Video of the police coming to remove the protester who glued themself to the floor during the Kathleen Stock talk at the Oxford Union.

The police have just walked the individual out of the building.

© The Oxford Student#LGBTQ #KathleenStock #Oxford pic.twitter.com/t0DotzQRr1

— Oliver Whitfield-Miočić (@olivermiocic) May 30, 2023