Trans activists try to ban gender-critical book ... again

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Trans activists are trying for a second time to have a gender-critical book pulled from an exhibition at Scotland’s national library.

The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht, was removed from the National Library’s exhibition in the summer after LGBT staff claimed it was “hate speech”.

Following an outcry, the book was restored and Amina Shah, the library’s chairman, apologised to its authors.

However, activists have now urged the library to renege on that decision, arguing that the move has created a “hostile environment” for staff at the century-old institution.

The leaked open letter said: “We call upon the library urgently to change course, to make a strong public commitment to ensuring that all staff and visitors are able to access the library without fear.

“We condemn the series of decisions by the board and senior leadership that have led to a hostile environment for queer, trans, and allied staff of, and visitors to, the library.”

Article continues at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/26/trans-activists-ban-gender-critical-book-scotland/

and at https://archive.is/i8nuG

What the actual fuck is wrong with them?

If I was a trans person, I would be so embarrassed to feel like I was being represented by people like this

Nutters

Thanks for this though, it’s reminded me to buy the book for a couple of TERFy friends.

Literal violence 🤦‍♀️. I’m amazed these people manage to hold down jobs.

Nothing...
I believe this might be the root of all the confusion. They literally have no other big challenges in their lives.

If the staff feel threatened by books, maybe working in a library isn't the best career for them.

Have you ever had a paper cut? Those things hurt like fuckery. Literary literal violence

There are 15 million books in the National Library of Scotland, 24 million individual items in their collection when you include manuscripts etc.

There are new books coming into the library all the time.

Out of all those texts just one single book makes them feel “unsafe” to the point of protesting?

A book which doesn't call for violence or harm but simply recounts a group of women’s personal experiences of a particular time period in Scottish political life??

I would suggest that any librarian involved in this protest should read more history not less if they think banning books they disagree with is a reasonable approach. They should all be invited to find alternative careers.

Someone used the "no" word to them.

Using the 'unsafe' argument is just getting tiring now. Call it by its proper name - attempted censorship of anything they don't agree with. Now THAT is violence.

Oh look, more incitement to ignore the law/inquiry results/ supreme court judgments because they don't like them.

If you can't cope with a grown up work place go home to mummy and CBeebies ffs.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5427993-update-on-the-national-library-of-scotland-debacle

This 😁

'Fear'?? What is wrong with these children?

Seeing a book you don't agree with - in a library ffs - is not an occasion that should cause anybody any fear. Fear of what, exactly?

Anybody who genuinely feels actual fear because there's a book in a library that doesn't chime with their own political opinions needs help. I imagine they lurch through life like that Catherine Tate character who screamed in fright at everything. Bonkers.

Apparently the library has more than one copy of Mein Kampf.
I wonder how some people get through the day, what if they are standing in the bus queue and suddenly realise that there might be someone there who doesn't agree with them? Do we need to revive the carrying of hartshorn and sal volatile?

I do think the tide is turning and that this period in time will be looked back on with embarrassment. It's a kind of mass hysteria.

I do hope they’ve read all these others and checked them for wrongthink, too.

About 12 years ago a friend the same age as me (crone stage) was sitting in the cafe of a newly minted university when a student stropped up to the next table and crossly announced that he was expected to read a book, a whole book.
I knew it wouldn't end well.

'Access the library without fear' ????
Can they hear themselves?
Has anyone put their name to this carp? I do wonder how they manage to go outside, do a job, etc
Pathetic

We are raising a generation of wimps who cannot confront or debate ideas that they don't agree with, or might upset them.

https://www.northantslive.news/news/northamptonshire-news/university-northamptons-trigger-warning-george-6541015

I wonder if they ever switch the news on and see situations that cause real fear. I suspect not.

This is beyond ridiculous. The irony of a trigger warning needed for 1984. Should be compulsory reading for all teenagers.

It was my O level book for English literature back in 1982.

and university students now need a trigger warning for it.

I think it is so ridiculous that it won't last - people will tire of this

I hope you are right, but I suspect this will continue to spread and become the new norm.

And one day they will have children and these children will then be indoctrinated into thinking they should be "safe guarded" from any thing that in any way challenges their view of the world and themselves.