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  Debbie Hayton The hounding of  Rosie Duffield 27 July 2021, 2:40pm I  grew up in 1980s County Durham; it felt at the time  like a People’s Democratic Republic. When the miners went on strike in 1984, Labour held 53 of the 72 seats on the county council. But whatever impression southerners might get from watching   Billy Elliot,  boys like me did not engage in ballet. Labour may have been in charge, but attitudes were socially conservative. We played football and supported the Toon, or Newcastle United to give them their official name. Allegiance to Sunderland raised eyebrows — in my town at least — while Manchester United was beyond the pale. If boys were ostracised for supporting the wrong football teams, teenagers struggling with sexuality or gender learnt to keep those things very close to their chests. In a society where ‘poof’ and ‘queer’ were insults of choice — terms of abuse hurled at victims to soften them up for a beating — coming out would have...

  Alex Massie: Death threats don’t sit on the right side of history The abuse heaped on JK Rowling by trans allies should not be ignored Alex Massie Sunday July 25 2021, 12.01am BST, The Sunday Times Today, like yesterday and like tomorrow too, the most famous person living in Scotland will probably receive at least one death threat and all but certainly be the lucky recipient of plenty of other promises of violence. And today, like yesterday and probably like tomorrow too, very few people will bother to be concerned about this. There will be no vigil, no statements of support or solidarity, no suggestion this is a monstrous state of affairs to be deplored by all decent people, no indication at all, in fact, that there is anything to see here at all. It will be just another day in the life of JK Rowling. Even if the Scottish parliament were sitting, no politician would draw attention to the abuse  heaped upon Rowling for the crime (sic) of thinking women’s rights and those of ...

  Coffee House Rosa Freedman No, the fight for trans rights has nothing to do with the Holocaust Today, 7:00am (Getty images) SHARE For the last two-and-a-half years, I have been hounded, attacked and shut down for participating in discussions about sex and transgenderism. My offence? That I believe something that was once accepted as truth: women are women and men are men. As a law professor, I have used my expertise on human rights to advocate finding a way to ensure that women’s rights and transgender rights are upheld without one or the other group losing their rights. The attacks on me have been varied, from facing a barrage of constant abuse online, being called a Nazi and a ‘TERF’ (trans exclusionary radical feminist – a slur used against women in my position), being de-platformed from events, and having my workplace contacted demanding I be fired. I have even been verbally abused at work and, in one particularly nasty incident, had my  office door  vandalised. The...

  Germaine Greer has previously been barred from one university for alleged transphobic views Bristol University students vote to ban ‘transphobic’ feminists Charlie Parker Friday March 02 2018, Original article here Students at the University of Bristol have voted to ban from campus speakers who argue that identifying as a woman is not the same as being born a woman. The university’s students’ union passed a motion to “no-platform” so-called trans-exclusionary radical feminists (Terfs). Feminists including Germaine Greer and Linda Bellos have been barred from speaking at universities in the past for holding views which trans activists see as transphobic. Bristol, however, appears to be the first university to plan on banning such speakers outright. The motion, which was passed on Tuesday after being put forward by the university’s feminist society, prevents any events involving collaboration with groups holding what are deemed to be “trans-exclusionary radical feminist views” fro...