In Scotland, They'll Take the Woke Road

In Scotland, They'll Take the Woke Road
The Princes Street, Edinburgh in Scotland, on Dec. 26, 2020. Jane Barlow/PA
Richard Bernstein
RealClearInvestigations
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DUNDEE, Scotland—The online class on gender, feminism, and the law was underway when Lisa Keogh, a 29-year-old student and mother of two, introduced a note of unwoke contention into the discussion.

“We were talking about equal rights for women, and I said I don’t believe a trans woman is really a woman,” said Keogh, then attending Abertay University Law School here. “I said that my definition of a woman is someone with a vagina.” Keogh, disagreeing with another point of view expressed in the same meeting, also voiced the apparently retrograde opinion that not all men are rapists.

Richard Bernstein is an investigative reporter for RealClearInvestigations, examining international relations, higher education, religion, and the culture wars. He is a former foreign correspondent, culture reporter, author, and book critic for Time magazine and the New York Times, and was the first Beijing bureau chief for Time.
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