Who (..that doesn’t have an appallingly homophobic agenda..) would try to get an artist’s talk cancelled at a university with the ‘justification’ that they follow a lesbian, gay and bisexual rights organisation online, and (presumably.. I can only go on the name-calling that this woman is attracting...), also has been ‘justified’ because the woman has some legal, peaceful, reality-based opinions about defending same sex attraction, women’s rights and a child’s right to an open future and who also disagrees with enforcing gender stereotyping because it is harmful and unnecessary.
In what way, does a campus become any less ‘safe’ for anyone else, if they had allowed this invited talk by a woman artist who may hold such views? 
Why on earth do these institutions indulge this?
Do the people that call for silencing invited women speakers, not realise that every day, several times a day, they will already be interacting with people, possibly including their own family and friends, who also share these peaceful, legal views?
That no feminist has ever attacked or hurt a trans person ever that we know of, whereas women who hold these views have been physically attacked recently in the UK purely on the basis of these views- google Maria Maclachlan at Speaker’s corner- and are threatened daily?
That women may even lose employment for holding such views, (google Maya Forstater), let alone be ‘no-platformed’ affecting their professional and personal freedom?
It’s a shameful slur about ‘safety’ when the entire risk to personal safety is borne by gender critical feminists who are open about their views and experiences as women.
Universities are also not supposed to cave to such unfounded assertions and authoritarian beliefs about who does not have the right to views:
The regulator of universities in England is the Office for students: www.officeforstudents.org.uk/
AFAIK I think the Office for Students should be able to formally assess universities’ plans to meet the freedom of speech requirements in the 1986 Education Act and is the place to report any potential failures to do so.
There’s also the body speaking for all Universities in the UK:
www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/our-work-in-parliament/Documents/freedom-of-speech-on-campus.pdf#search=freedom%20of%20speech
‘ Universities UK opposes no-platform policies, and universities are required to take action to prevent an invited speaker from being denied access to university premises.’
See also:
www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/policy-and-analysis/reports/Documents/2011/freedom-of-speech-on-campus-executive-summary.pdf
‘ Freedom of speech and academic freedom
Universities play an important role in society
as places of debate and discussion where ideas can be tested without fear of control, where students learn to challenge ideas and think for themselves, and where rationality underpins the pursuit of knowledge.
This role is reinforced by legislation.
The Education Reform Act 1988 requires (pre-1992) universities to ensure ‘that academic staff have freedom within the law to question and test received wisdom, and to put forward new ideas and controversial or unpopular opinions, without placing themselves in jeopardy of losing their jobs or privileges they may have
at their institutions’.
The Education Act (No. 2) 1986 provides that ‘persons concerned in the government of any establishment... shall take such steps
as are reasonably practicable to ensure that freedom of speech within the law is secured
for members, students and employees of the establishment and for visiting speakers.’
The Act requires universities to maintain and update a code of practice covering the organisation of meetings where free speech is likely to be an issue, and requires them to ensure university premises are not denied to anyone on the grounds of their beliefs or views.
Both Acts require universities to promote academic freedom and free speech ‘within the law’. Determining what is and what is not ‘within the law’ may not be straightforward. It is the law that constrains the requirement to protect and promote academic freedom and free speech, not a university’s choices.’
And the relevant government Minister, currently Chris Skidmore: www.gov.uk/government/ministers/minister-of-state-for-universities-science-research-and-innovation
Please can everyone write to them and demand some action to protect women’s freedom of speech, and students’ right to hear their views?
This should not be happening. It is the systematic silencing of women from participation in public life, because they may hold perfectly rational, legal, peaceful views, which are widely shared by others.
It’s extremist, authoritarian, sex discrimination operating in plain sight.
About a hundred years ago universities saw riots about women’s participation in university education, are we heading back that way? What does this cancel culture say to female students, staff and artists about what it is safe for them to work on and speak about?
www.newn.cam.ac.uk/newnham-news/univesity-library-digitises-remains-of-1897-protests/
blog.oup.com/2019/07/gender-riots-rocked-cambridge-university-1920s/