How to support legal fight against Bath Spa Uni suppressing detransition research?

[goodyzoe]

James Caspian is fighting Bath Spa uni through the courts - they withdrew funding for his study into detransitioning because they feared the trans backlash on social media.

James is on twitter here - but not followed by many people, looks like he's maybe pretty new to twitter? @jamesfreespeech

Here's his crowdfunder - www.crowdjustice.com/case/uphold-freedom-of-speech-in-our-universities/

This is about fundamental issues to do with free speech at uni, standing up to no platforming and treating critical thinking as hate speech.

He's had quite a bit of media coverage, but it looks to me like maybe he needs some help promoting his crowdfunder. He needs £50k but it's at just £12.5K.

This is a good interview -
BBC article from Sept: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41384473
More recent Telegraph article: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/23/academics-say-research-hindered-universities-fear-online-backlash/

What can we do to amplify him?

Well, he's followed by more people than me I suppose!

But I'm not fighting a high-profile campaign, I thought he'd have more supporters on Twitter. I suspect people don't know he's there.

I'm not on twitter but you could send a dm to gender critical accounts and ask them to retweet him?

Good idea!

Any ideas of influential people who might retweet?

Anyone up for joining me in doing this? I'm @jessicazoeb on twitter.

Got to do bedtimes etc but will be coming back to this later ...

Thanks for sharing the crowdfunding link. I've just donated.

Just thought I'd bump this. His second crowdfunder page needs less than £3000 now. 18 days left.

www.crowdjustice.com/case/free-speech-matters-round2/

Done.

Bump again for daytime crowd.