Vindication: a UK tribunal pours cold water on trans hysteria
By Michael Cook, Mercator.
There’s seldom good news in the gender space, but this story about a UK tribunal ruling about transgender bullying comes as a breath of fresh air.
Professor Jo Phoenix, 59, is a criminologist who landed her dream job at Open University in 2016. It wasn’t long before she ran into trouble with her colleagues.
Professor Phoenix is a lesbian from a very tough background. As a schoolgirl in Texas she was raped as a 15-year-old and endured the shame of preparing for a rape trial. She ran away from home and lived rough for a while. Adult education, which OU specialised in, saved her. She pulled her life together and ended up with a PhD and a world reputation.
She has strong and clear views on transgender issues: women are women; men are men. She was dismayed by the silencing of academic debate and she criticised the influence of Stonewall, the UK’s leading LGBTQI+ lobby group. She even had the temerity to argue that males should not be incarcerated with females. As a good academic, she set up a group called the Open University Gender Critical Research Network which studied the consequences of gender self-ID.
As a reward for her audacity, she was treated like a leper. The vilification and harassment she endured made her literally ill. One night, she recalled, “I was reading all these tweets that were either threatening violence or saying I was transphobic. Each time I shut my eyes, I saw guns coming after me. It was terror.”
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