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Re: gender identity

A Guardian columnist whose work prompted a letter from more than 300 members of staff protesting against allegedly “transphobic content” earlier this year has left the paper.

Suzanne Moore, who won the Orwell Foundation’s Journalism Prize in 2019 for her writing for the Guardian, announced her resignation on Monday evening.

She tweeted: “I have left The Guardian. I will very much miss SOME of the people there. For now that’s all I can say.”

After an outpouring of support Moore later added: “It was entirely my choice to go. I will tell you all about it one day . For now thank you for these lovely messages. I feel like I am at my own funeral or something.

“Anyway I will keep writing of course! The efforts to shut me up seem not to have been very well thought through.”

In March, 338 Guardian employees across editorial, tech and commercial teams wrote to editor Kath Viner after the publication of Moore’s article “Women must have the right to organise. We will not be silenced” in which she wrote about gender being a biological classification “not a feeling”.

Moore also revealed that she and her children had received death and rape threats and been forced to get police involved after “being deemed transphobic by an invisible committee on social media” – something that happened once again after the publication of this column.

An internationally renowned researcher on tax avoidance is believed to be the first person in Britain to lose her job for saying that transgender women are not women.

Maya Forstater, 45, was told by her managers that she had used “offensive and exclusionary” language.

She was accused of “fear-mongering” for tweeting her concerns about government proposals to allow people to legally self-identify as the opposite sex.

Link to the crowdfunding campaign to help with legal expenses as she takes this case to employment tribunal hoping to show that no one should be discriminated against for having gender critical views and talking about them.

Link to these tweets.

Her update.    

Professor of philosophy Kathleen Stock’s call uponother UK academic philosophers and other academics to publicly demonstrate their disciplinary values.

When you say “trans women are women”, this is what you are supporting. 

Over a year after a man then-named Jonathan Yaniv filed multiple complaints against British Columbia estheticians who declined to wax his balls, the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has ruled against the now-named ‘Jessica.’

Back in August 2018, Yaniv told Canadian media he had been discriminated against based on ‘gender identity.’ In reality, the female estheticians he approached simply didn’t feel comfortable touching a man’s genitals.

What has been revealed since, many times over, is that no one but Yaniv is, in these particular circumstances, guilty of harassment. Indeed, it is the women he attempted to extort money from, by abusing the tribunal system and human rights law, who have felt afraid, bullied, and preyed upon by a man claiming to be a woman.