The daughter of Kate Garraway’s new boyfriend Liam Halligan launched into a blistering anti-trans rant at Cambridge Union this week. 23-year-old Maeve Halligan took to the podium arguing against the modern trans acceptance movement, citing the 2025 Supreme Court ruling that a woman is defined by biological sex.
In her speech, Halligan accused activists of trying to “erase that fact” because “if sex is real and immutable a whole lot of what they have been doing falls apart.” She added: “The movement that was supposed to protect lesbians has instead provided ideological cover for them to be coerced.”
Halligan continued: “It’s not cruelty to object to it. It’s not backwards to ask who, exactly, modern LGBTQ+ activism is for. Be brave. Let yourself question the narrative that you’re being fed.
“Don’t tell me to be kind if being kind involves lying to and medicalising kids, betraying lesbian and gay people, rolling back women’s hard fought-for rights, and hurling threats at those who object.
“Again, hatred – you talk about it – try being a woman who knows what one of those are, I’ll tell you about hatred.
“No, I don’t subscribe to this ‘kindness’ and I’ll tell the truth instead. I speak in favour of this motion – be brave and support it as well.”
Maeve added on her Instagram page: “Young people have been sold a story - a comfortable lie - in which being ‘progressive’ means never questioning the dominant institutional line where compassion is conflated with compliance.
“But real compassion asks hard questions. Real advocacy protects the people it claims to represent, even when that’s inconvenient.
“I spoke at the Cambridge Union in favour of the motion ‘This House Believes Modern LGBTQ+ activism fails its community’. Watch my full speech on X (MaeveHalligan). Watch the full debate at the link in my bio or on the Cambridge Union’s YouTube channel.”
Kate has been dating Maeve’s dad Liam since earlier this year, and was spotted cuddling up to him as he started a gruelling 300km charity bike ride earlier in May.
