That was a horrific article. So very Orwellian. Going by what ‘Maria’ said, she never actually made any trans related comments other than to ask for evidence of JKR’s transphobia. She, apparently, never tried to even argue that sex is immutable. Just spoke about freedom of speech (ironically).
Yet Oxfam seemed to frame the whole investigation as if she was another MF and the only issue was that the process wasn’t handled properly eg We believe that each member of our community has a right to their own religious or philosophical beliefs, including the belief that ‘sex is immutable’ and ‘sex is important’. We acknowledge that in dealing with your case and during the disciplinary process we made mistakes. We are sorry for the procedural mistakes we made in the handling of this case Nothing at all about the valid and bigger questions about censorship and why discuss banning JKR and not any other authors?
It is so illustrative and so worrying how easily and how fully captured are any and all liberal and ‘progressive’ people and organisations, from individuals in health and education policy to whole scale countries. This ideology surely could not have taken root so quickly and so comprehensively if it wasn’t on the back of dark undercurrents of misogyny. Still, I cannot understand my intelligent feminist colleagues who also adhere to TWAW. They are not misogynists. Or friends who are doctors. They are intelligent people.