The Sunday Times is reporting that Alice Sullivan, an academic who was supposed to speak at an event relating to the upcoming national census was 'no platformed.' Her allegedly 'anti trans' opinions were deemed sufficiently heretical to cancel her participation in the event, which was to discuss the construction of the census.
^the new head of Stonewall, an LGBT charity that campaigns for “acceptance without exception”, allowed a top social scientist to be barred from a discussion of how Britain conducts its census.
Nancy Kelley was one of the leaders of a research group that agreed to have the scientist “no-platformed” in the latest row over academic freedom. Alice Sullivan, professor of sociology at University College London and director of one of the UK’s biggest social science projects, was due to speak at a seminar last month alongside officials from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which is organising the 2021 census^
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