Read on Twitter
I've got a piece in the Mail on Sunday today, explaining what's happening to gender-critical academics in UK Universities, and what the cost is. No paywall. https://mol.im/a/9155659
The Mail piece is part 2 of this week's attempt to communicate what's going on in Universities to new audiences. This was part 1, earlier in the week https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-sinister-attempts-to-silence-gender-critical-academics
I'd like to thank all the totalitarians that signed that letter against me for making this possible.
To question 'how can you be silenced when national newspaper's putting your side of story across?'. Answer: 'silencing' is context-dependent. You can be loud in one place and suppressed in another. Academic silencing is what matters here: articles, conferences, talks. These are/
where the business of academic knowledge-production take place. It is how careers are built. And if academics can't freely talk about concerns about gender identity in an academic context, this is where the losses will be, with knock-on effects to public understanding.
I have tried to tell my story vividly but of course main message is the greater losses. It doesn't greatly matter what happens to my own academic career - I've stared the abyss in the face on that one. But wider losses, in terms of what this sort of thing represents, are huge.
