Jo Phoenix, from the Open University, had been due to give a talk on trans rights and justice at the University of Essex on ThursdayA university talk on trans rights and justice was cancelled on Thursday after it was claimed activists had threatened to 'obstruct the discussion'. Jo Phoenix, from the Open University, had been due to give a talk entitled 'Trans rights and justice: complicated contours in contemporary sex, gender and sexualities politics when thinking about issues of justice and punishment' at the University of Essex. Tracey Loughran, a historian at the University of Essex, was among those who contacted the university to complain about the talk. Free speech is one thing, but trans rights are human rights and we shouldn’t be debating human rights', she said to the University of Essex on Twitter. This was the third time in a month that a university has cancelled an event after the speaker was accused of holding transphobic views.

Source: Daily Mail December 07, 2019 11:37 UTC