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In response Hughes said her right to free speech was being trampled on.

'A person cannot change their sex. That is a fact.'

she said in response to a series of emailed questions from The Providence Journal.

'I have a PhD in genetics so I think I am qualified to write about the basics of sex.'

Hughes, the Eleanor M. and Oscar M. Carlson Endowed Chair of Gender and Women’s Studies at URI, has a long history of writing about controversial issues such as transgender people and prostitution.

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