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Rather balanced article in the Guardian

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Michelleoftheresistance · 14/01/2020 09:30

www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jan/14/sacked-silenced-academics-say-they-are-blocked-from-exploring-trans-issues

Actually using the words 'gender critical feminists' although adding 'so called' to try and soften the blow a bit.

However anyone reading this not soaked in the debate is going to think:

Why is it only one side creating enough hoo hah that events are considered too risky to go ahead?

Why does anyone have the right to not be offended? What's the 'unsafe' bit about?

And connect the dots that really what is being regarded as appalling, requiring protests so threatening that sites daren't host, is actually... women's rights.

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justcly · 14/01/2020 09:43

If a conference on women's sex-based rights needs that much security, then we are talking about terrorism. Who is driving this? Because I am fairly confident that your average transman/transwoman isn't a terrorist.

LassoOfTruth · 14/01/2020 09:40

I was pleased to see this (at last, Guardian!), but some explanation of the core issues and actual concerns, e.g. safeguarding of women in prisons etc, would have been better.
The 'feeling unsafe' at a lecture nonsense continues to give me the rage. No, you are not unsafe if someone giving an academic talk has different views than you. You might be unsafe though if a male-bodied violent criminal was allowed into your (prison) bathroom/bedroom no questions asked, because he 'feels he is a woman'.