…with an OBE for "services to higher education," no doubt in recognition of her advocacy for free intellectual discussion of the idea of "gender identity" and the ramifications of replacing biological sex with "gender identity" for various legal protections afforded women.   Professor Stock uses the occasion to note some of the threats to the former here.

For a typically gracious reaction to this news, here is philosopher Liam Bright (LSE):

Professor Bright's insult was retweeted by Dominic Berry (LSE), Chris Bertram (Bristol), Rebecca Buxton (Oxford), and others well-known for their contempt for academic freedom.   The attempt by philosopher Peter Cave, in the response to Bright and Bertram, to elicit rational discussion went nowhere, unsurprisingly.  It is curious that, although Professor Stock's arguments and advocacy on these issues has been well-known since May 2018, there has been exactly one substantive response by philosophers (as distinct from sneering dismissiveness, like Liam Bright's, above), itself not successful (see Sophie Allen's comment at the preceding link) but at least (mostly) serious in its engagement.