British philospher had his book "Trouble With Gender — Sex Facts, Gender Fictions" cancelled by OUP because it concluded "that women are adult human females"

[IwantToRetire]

As a philosophy professor of 28 years' standing, I was delighted when Oxford University Press (OUP), arguably the world's most prestigious academic publishing house, enthusiastically accepted my proposal in 2020 for a book on the philosophy of sex and gender: Trouble With Gender — Sex Facts, Gender Fictions.

I wanted to probe some of the great quandaries of our time: 'What is gender?', 'What is a woman?', 'Is sex binary?', 'What is gender identity?', 'Why do some people transition from man to woman, or vice versa?' But if I thought that this prestigious publisher was brave enough to pursue difficult subjects in the spirit of free intellectual inquiry, I was mistaken.

In the end, OUP simply couldn't countenance my inescapable but heretical conclusion in the book — that women are adult human females.

Opening paragraphs of longer article at https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12520421/PROFESSOR-ALEX-BYRNE-hits-critics-scorn-free-speech.html

Not sure its a book I would ever read, but makes you wonder how many others have not been published and decided that it is best to not make a fuss, and never reveal that they too had had heretical thoughts!

The publishing world is so heavily captured that it’s difficult to see how it will be turned around any time soon. I think that the arts, in general, are in deep trouble when it comes to being seriously out of touch with the real world. I find it bizarre as obscure books that can surely only have a tiny readership keep getting published, like the Lavery Penis Book.

But maybe it’s me that’s wrong and the model is sound and these books are somehow making a huge profit.

It's still going to be published. He just had to find a different publisher.
http://www.alexbyrne.org/trouble-with-gender.html

He's written a few articles on this subject over the last few years. This is a recent one.
https://areomagazine.com/2023/09/12/gender-critical-philosophy-a-defence/

It's still going to be published.

I know that, but the point is the the OUP that clearly has status, and you would have hoped would want to use that to set high standards renegade of the deal.

That is what is so telling.

And because of who there are is a further pressure on those who may have ideas and thoughts they want to share, but wouldn't want anyone to know the OUP had rejected their work.

This writer has existing status.