Prominent feminist author Germaine Greer has accused Caitlyn Jenner of wanting "the limelight" enjoyed by the other Kardashian women in a controversial interview on BBC2.
Germaine Greer.
In an interview with BBC2's Newsnight, Greer was asked about Caitlyn Jenner, who is rumoured to be the next Glamour Woman of the Year.
"I think misogyny plays a really big part in all of this," Greer said.
"That a man who goes to these lengths to become a woman will be a better woman than someone who is just born a woman."
Greer added that she thinks Jenner was chasing the attention enjoyed by the other Kardashian women by transitioning.
"It seems to me that what was going on there, is that he, she, wanted the limelight that the other female members of the family are enjoying, and has conquered it just like that."
The interview took place after an online petition to stop Greer from speaking on campus was started at Cardiff University.
The petition was organised by Rachael Melhuish, the Women's Officer at Cardiff University's student union.
Melhuish wrote that Greer has "demonstrated time and time again her misogynistic views towards trans women, including continually misgendering trans women and denying the existence of transphobia altogether".
The petition goes on to say "hosting a speaker with such problematic and hateful views towards marginalised and vulnerable groups is dangerous", and urges Cardiff University to cancel the event.
"I was going to talk about women and power, the lessons of the 20th century," Greer told BBC2.
"Apparently people have decided that because I don't think post operative transgender men...are women, I am not to be allowed to talk."
"I am not saying that people should not be allowed to go through that procedure," she added.
"What I am saying is that it doesn't make them a woman. It happens to be an opinion. It's not a prohibition."