A university in Berlin has canceled a lecture by biologist Marie Vollbrecht on the topic of biological gender after LGBT activists threatened to stage a protest, German news outlet Die Welt reported on Sunday.
Vollbrecht, who has a masters degree in biology, was supposed to participate in Saturdayâs âLong Night of Scienceâ event, which takes place in Germany every year and allows large scientific institutions to hold lectures and demonstrations for the general public. Her talk was supposed to cover the topic of biological gender and explain why there are only two sexes in biology.
However, activists from a left-wing group called ‘Working Group of Critical Lawyers’ decried Vollbrechtâs thesis as âunscientific, inhuman and hostile to queer and trans.â They accused Humboldt University(HU), where the biologist works, of offering a stage to a âwell-known trans-hostile speakerâ and proclaimed on Twitter that âthere is no place for queer hostility at our university. See you on the street!â…
