Recent incidents of this kind include the sacking of Roger Scruton from a government quango and the disinvitation of Julia Hartley-Brewer from a medical conference. I’m grateful they took the opportunity to demonstrate that transphobic views have no place in the Whoniverse, both in and outside the stories.’ĭay, who believes that equating biology with gender is ‘cissexist’, is not the first militant campaigner to successfully force an organisation to sack or No Platform someone based on an historic tweet, a political opinion, or a smear. ‘I don’t share a platform with bigots… BBC Books made their decision. A very useful address if your Spanish isn’t up to much, Dr. She says that she told the publishers that, ‘If was in, I was out’. She describes Roberts as ‘an awful human being’ for whom there ‘should be consequences’. Day – a little-known children’s author whose latest book is about ‘dragons and toxic masculinity’ – celebrated the success of her campaign in a series of tweets last night. The writer who precipitated Roberts’ blacklisting appears to be Susie Day, another contributor to the volume.
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