UK media - Attempts to silence women and free speech, pronouns

The chapel at Wilson’s Hospital School in Multyfarnham, Co Westmeath, was packed with pupils, staff, parents and clergy for a service last June. The occasion was both solemn and celebratory, marking the Church of Ireland diocesan boarding school’s 260th anniversary.

Pastor sues college and Church after he was deemed a risk to children following a sermon when he said marriage was between a man and a woman

Cathy Boardman alleges she has been discriminated against but BIMM Institute claims that facts are missing from her account

A lecturer is suing a music academy over claims that she was forced out of her job because of her stance on trans issues, which included asking students to consider whether drag acts could be seen as sexist.Cathy Boardman, 43, was allegedly described as transphobic by students at Brighton Institute

Exclusive: Ignored by colleagues and spat at on the street, award-winning comedian Elaine Miller says free speech is under attack in Scotland

Members of the University and College Union (UCU) vowed to draw up a list of university backroom staff they suspected of having ‘gender-critical beliefs’, according to leaked meeting minutes.

‘Oxford Free Speech Forum’ convenes just as Government prepares to pass legislation to stamp out censorship on campuses

A researcher faced discrimination and victimisation at work over her belief that men cannot become women, a tribunal has ruled.The landmark employment law decis

The BBC changed the testimony of a rape victim after a debate over the pronouns of her transgender attacker, The Times has learnt.The woman referred to her al

Aleks Kovacevic says she was threatened with arrest by Greater Manchester Police after a scuffle broke out at statue of Emmeline Pankhurst

James Esses had volunteered at Childline for five years but that counted for nothing when he shared concerns over their gender ideology...

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Michelle Donelan, the universities minister, says institutions can no longer ‘shy away’ from ‘the intolerant mob’ who are stopping debate

An NHS child psychiatrists’ conference on gender dysphoria was cancelled after transgender rights activists accused speakers of “extremism”.

Zoom conference descended into chaos as trans activists refused to appear alongside gender-critical speakers

Gay rights activist claims that critics of Nicola Sturgeon’s gender change proposals are being ‘excluded from political process’

One of the country’s leading columnists has appeared to take a swipe at her employer for capitulating to “left-wing bullies” who have restricted critical discus

It’s the biggest question in modern email etiquette. Should you add your pronouns — he/him, she/her, they/them; ze/hir or one of an increasing number of expres

Academics at Cardiff University who signed a letter raising concerns about freedom of speech in relation to transgender rights have had their names and photos

Jennifer Swayne, 53, was arrested on Sunday afternoon and detained until the early hours of the morning, while police officers executed a search warrant on her property, confiscating a book.

The Labour MP Rosie Duffield was on the verge of quitting the party last night after accusing Sir Keir Starmer of failing to support her as she suffered “obsess

Choreographer Rosie Kay has never shied away from controversial subjects. Her ballet MK Ultra addressed conspiracy theorists; her award-winning 5 Soldiers, insp

Critics of transgender activists should be given beefed-up legal protection to ensure freedom of expression, law reform experts have advised ministers. Recommendations published today by the Law Commission were welcomed by women’s rights campaigners who claim to have been victimised over their so-ca

A GP’s registration was suspended yesterday after he admitted using his Twitter account to post offensive language about people who opposed his pro-transgender

JK Rowling, perhaps this country’s most renowned full-time resident, reported last Monday that her home had been targeted by trans-rights activists

Former Sussex University professor believes her views were ‘radically’ misrepresented in vindictive campaign to ‘trash’ her reputation

The typical print run for an academic book is around 500 copies, so until recently the works of Professor Kathleen Stock were unlikely to be read by more than a

Today, the House of Lords debates regulations to control the creation of police records on people who have committed no crimes. In the frame are “non-crime hate

An academic who was subjected to “bullying and harassment” by her students because of her views on transgender rights has resigned.Professor Kathleen Stock, a

Legal academics, including many from Scottish universities, have written to the University of Sussex in support of Professor Kathleen Stock, “for her academic work and public interventions on the questions surrounding the legal recognition of sex and gender identity.” Professor Stock, a philosophy…

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Dr Shereen Benjamin, a senior lecturer in primary education at the University of Edinburgh, has been compared to a eugenicist and a white supremacist. Comp

Under equality rules, offenders who use terms deemed ‘threatening, abusive or insulting’ could have additional days added to their sentence

An academic abused by students for allegedly “transphobic” views says it is a “sign of the toxicity” of today that she is considered dangerous.Last night the he

Foreign Secretary says she agrees with comments by the Labour MP Rosie Duffield who said ‘only women have a cervix’

David Lammy accuses Today presenter of ‘deliberately asking me about an issue that you know does not come up on the doorstep’

The prestigious medical journal has prompted a wave of anger online after a ‘well-meaning but unhelpful attempt to be inclusive’

Protesters holding a demonstration outside Holyrood could face criminal prosecution under a new law to come into force next month.

There’s a lot of chat around about pronouns right now. Specifically, ‘preferred’ pronouns. By which is usually meant, the pronouns a person would prefer.

There’s an obvious question to ask the comedy writer Graham Linehan. What would Father Ted, his greatest creation, make of the angry debate surrounding trans rights, and impending reform of the Gender Recognition Act in Scotland? “I know where you’re going with this,” Linehan says, with his lopsided

Novelist ‘ashamed’ of UK’s treatment of migrants and wants to be a European again

Senior BBC presenters have raised concerns that its continued backing for Stonewall’s Diversity Champions scheme could jeopardise the broadcaster’s impartiality. The BBC said last night that it would remain associated with the LGBTQ+ group’s workplace programme after other media organisations withdr

There they go again, Rangers fans disgracing themselves and reminding us that people really do make Glasgow. On Sunday, several dozen supporters were filmed pa

If there is a crowd of women dressed as handmaidens from a dystopian world, all of them chanting “Women won’t wheesht”, it’s probably Glasgow on a Tuesday, and

After the publication last month of Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality, Helen Joyce claims she has been snubbed by the BBC and other media organisations.

More concerns have been raised over proposals to invite civil servants to take a “pronoun pledge” reflecting their gender identity.The Scottish government is encouraging staff to add terms reflecting

Today, like yesterday and like tomorrow too, the most famous person living in Scotland will probably receive at least one death threat and all but certainly be the lucky recipient of plenty of other

JK Rowling has mocked an online troll who threatened her with a pipe bomb over her views on gender.The author tweeted a screenshot of the death threat as a demonstration of the hate mail she has

In late November last year Milli Hill, a bestselling author of books about childbirth and the founder of the Positive Birth Movement, a network of support groups for pregnant women, saw herself tagged

A Bedfordshire man has ended up with a police record for “racial hatred” after whistling the theme tune to Bob The Builder at his neighbour.

The debate about transgender rights has reached our maternity wards and sparked a witch hunt, with women being left out of the picture

Every week another woman heads for the ducking stool simply for challenging gender ideology and its ever more reductive language

What we are facing is a fundamental redefinition of what it means for anyone to be a man or woman - the supplanting of biology and a total rewrite of ...

Britons are increasingly fearful of expressing controversial views and most young people have cut someone out because of their political opinions, according to a study.Just over half of adults under

A worker at a nursing union claims she was forced to quit her job after being “hounded” by bosses over her research into trans rights.Lisa Mackenzie was a part-time policy officer for the Royal

The equality watchdog has been urged to investigate whether the Royal Academy of Arts discriminated against an artist because of her opinions about transgender people.The RA, which is one of the

The Royal Academy has barred an artist’s works from its shop after a social media campaign claimed that she had negative attitudes towards transgender people.The academy said that it would no longer

Greater Manchester’s new top officer says such actions could affect police impartiality.

A campaign encouraging Scottish NHS staff to sign a pledge and wear a badge supporting gay, lesbian and transgender people has been criticised after it emerged participation in the scheme will be

Stonewall has been accused of misrepresenting the law in its advice to Essex University, which failed to uphold free speech when it dropped speakers accused of transphobia.A barrister, Akua Reindorf

Women must have the right to question transgender identity without being abused, stigmatised or risking losing their job, the new head of Britain’s equalities watchdog has warned.In her first

Universities are guilty of groupthink and must do more to protect freedom of thought, the outgoing chairman of the Office for Students says.Sir Michael Barber, who was brought back to Downing Street

The teenager, referred to only as A, tried to bring a case to the High Court claiming that the CPS’ affiliation with LGBT charity Stonewall meant it could be biased.

Academic freedom is vital in a functioning and healthy democracy. But when it comes to questioning and debating ideas around gender identity and sex, many of my colleagues in academia do not appear to agree. The latest glaring example of this came last week. An open letter, signed by over 600 of …

My colleagues and I from the Common Sense group of MPs in Parliament have been co-authoring a book on a number of issues we believe the...

A group of academics criticised the government’s decision to award an OBE to Kathleen Stock, a professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex, saying it honours her ‘transphobic’ rhetoric.

The Crown Prosecution Service has “compromised its independence” with its support for Stonewall, the LGBT rights group, and risks bias in its approach to transgender issues, according to a legal

The Crown Prosecution Service has “compromised its independence” with its support for Stonewall, the LGBT rights group, and risks bias in its approach to transgender issues, according to a legal

When Abigail Shrier published a book warning of a “trans epidemic plaguing teenage girls”, she was naturally expecting some controversy. It is now at the centre of a furious debate over free speech

The site’s owners have been accused of breaching its own terms and conditions as well as infringing the right to freedom of speech

Rosie Duffield got a standing ovation in the House of Commons last year when she revealed her experiences of domestic abuse in a speech that left many of her colleagues in tears. The Labour MP for