The Telegraph.

Is trans trickery finally coming to an end?

Maeve Halligan went viral for a speech to the Cambridge Union

in which she drove a coach and horses through trans ideology.

She says LGBTQ activism is harming women and vulnerable children and enforces

regressive sex stereotypes. Welcome in the Daily Tea Studio.

You're a master's student, a co-founder of the Cambridge University Society of Women.

That's the university's only openly females-only organisation.

We should point out that you're also the daughter of our colleague,

the Telegraph journalist, Liam Halligan. And you gave this quite extraordinary speech that basically

went viral, Mave. We'll get on to the reaction to the speech and what's happened since. But just

take us back to the beginning. How did you even come to make that speech in the first place? Thanks for having me. I would say I have been, you know, what's commonly labelled, gender critical. So basically I don't buy the trans stuff. I've been that way since I've found out what trans was. So I was originally really, really skeptical of it. I didn't say much about it at the time, which is when I was about 14 or 15, but, you know,

as I think we can all look back retrospectively now, and we can all acknowledge that trans

as an idea and gender ideology more generally has really, it's grown and it's gathered a worrying

amount of strength and influence in spaces like schools and institutions.

So when I went to university, I really, really noticed it.

That was in 2021.

And because that was just post-COVID, there was still sort of, you know, hints of COVID around.

People had been inside online for a really long time.

So trans was booming.

I also was at the University of Bristol as an undergrad.

So, you know, for a whole host of reasons and the city's sort of political identity means that the University of Bristol swallowed trans in a big way.

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