The uncomfortable truth is that the Humboldt affair is not about the twisted worldview of some activists who cannot tell the difference between desire and reality.

It is the house and court ideology of the universities that has emerged in Berlin: Gender is nothing more than a social construct.

This dogma has the undisputed dominance in cultural studies seminars, is passed on by ministries, parties and an army of commissioners and is to be enshrined in law according to the plan of the traffic light government.

The student council, which at first attempt failed to silence the biologist Marie-Luise Vollbrecht for daring to remind them that there are egg and sperm cells, but no third type of gamete, and that biology there is therefore good reason to speak of dual gender, this student body has changed its tactics and is now trying to do it through the back door.

In an internal letter that is available to this editorial team, she calls on students to get in touch if they do not feel safe in the presence of the biologist.

The escalation reaches the next level: Vollbrecht is declared dangerous to the public.

How far does personal stigmatization at Humboldt University actually have to go before the university management puts itself in front of a lecturer to protect him?

The hesitation of the universities cannot be explained with indolence alone;

it is the insecurity that now prevails in the gender issue.

So how will the panel decide when it is reported the supposedly dangerous presence of Ms. Vollbrecht?

One conference participant accused the British philosopher Kathleen Stock of feeling uncomfortable in her presence, which is why she was disinvited from the Center for General Linguistics in Berlin last year.

As is well known, Kathleen Stock had to endure a month-long gauntlet run at her home university before she threw in the towel in exasperation.

The witch was dead, her opponents cheered.

Luckily there was no pyre.

However, you don't have to accept everything.

Britain's Maya Forstater has won a court victory, the Guardian reports.

Her contract had not been renewed by a think tank because she had tweeted that a man's inner sense of being a woman doesn't make him one.

The court has now ruled that criticism of gender theory (which should not be confused with feminism) is protected by the legally enshrined pluralism of opinion.

At the same time, it called on Forstater to moderate their tone.

Marie-Luise Vollbrecht, who has since deleted several tweets, is also advised to do the same.