www.telegraph.co.uk/education-and-careers/2021/02/17/bullied-standing-free-speech-university-now-suing/
For many inquisitive young minds in Britain’s universities, it’s a familiar path: dare to express an argument or invite a speaker to campus that challenges woke zealotry, hoping in vain for an intellectual exchange, and you are likely tofind yourself ‘cancelled’.
Raquel Rosario-Sanchez, a PhD student, encountered ‘cancel culture’ weeks after enrolling at Bristol University, while preparing to chair a panel discussion about the distinction between gender and biological sex.
“Trans activiststudents pounced on me and began a sustained campaign of intimidation to silence me,” she said. “Gender belongs to my academic field, but they wanted to make it clear that this was a forbidden topic and nobody was allowed to speak about it.”
The 31-year-old, from the Dominican Republic, filed a bullying complaint to her universityabout the activists in 2018, and over the following months says she was targeted by “masked protesters” and threatened withbeing hit with eggs.
“I’ve read that I should be punched and turfed out of England. Trans activists have called for my deportation,” she told The Telegraph. "I’ve been called ‘terf[trans-exclusionary radical feminist], scum, trash, nasty, bigot, heinous and sickening’, during periodic campaigns of vilification targeting every feminist event I participated in, over a span of almost two years.”
Her academic progress stalled as a result, leaving her visa on the line. She is now suing her university over its decision to drop the bullying probe. For Ms Rosario-Sanchez, the “rising intolerance” within universities,denounced this week byGavin Williamson, the Education Secretary, almost meant losing everything.