There is a great article in The Telegraph which discusses many of the recurrent themes on this board in the light of Professor Selina Todd's no platforming. Tom Harris cites the way the relationship between words and external reality has been deliberately dismantled, the way 'hate speech' is being used to criminalise opinions about biological fact, the colonisation of political parties by the agenda of a niche lobby and the craven, pandering politicos responsible. It's well worth a read.
In both cases the “solution” trans activists and their supporters have in mind is to have these women “cancelled” – sacked, no-platformed, shunned and, most important of all, silenced. The ruin of an academic or journalist is a small price to pay for trans activists not to have to listen to opposing views that might upset them. But in order for them to achieve their ends, two vital elements are necessary. The first is that language must be altered and manipulated so that words no longer mean what they used to mean. And so “transphobe”, which used to mean fear or hatred of trans people, now means anyone who believes in sex-based rights. If you believe in the biological fact of sex, that sex is not “assigned at birth” but is an inescapable physiological fact, then you are a transphobe