CW: Transphobia Cancel culture strikes again, leading hundreds of popular politicians and wealthy celebrities to fall face-first into book deals and endless news coverage. Joanna Cherry used obvious dog whistles…
I’m sure most people have heard that Joanna Cherry was recently sacked from the SNP’s Westminster front bench– but was it really because Nicola Sturgeon has a ‘zero-tolerance’ policy against…
A senior SNP MP has said the party is in “unprecedented turmoil” after being dropped from the party’s shadow cabinet at Westminster. Joanna Cherry, MP for Edinburgh South West since…
Content warning: discussion of misogyny and transphobia; mentions of domestic abuse and sexual assault There are few current issues which inspire as much rancour as the debate over trans self-identification,…
For those Scots who value the legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment, Holyrood’s Hate Crime Bill may be the most regressive piece of political kowtowing in recent memory. Lockdown has seen…
Last Wednesday the University of Edinburgh platformed a panel discussion organised by the university’s Institute for Education, Teaching and Leadership. The speakers invited were women often referred to as “TERFs”…
Content warning: transmisogyny Definitions: Transgender (Trans): An individual who identifies as a different gender as the one they were assigned at birth Cisgender (Cis): An individual who identifies with the…
Biological sex and transphobia: why you shouldn’t side with Joanna Cherry
CW: Transphobia Cancel culture strikes again, leading hundreds of popular politicians and wealthy celebrities to fall face-first into book deals and endless news coverage. Joanna Cherry used obvious dog whistles…
Joanna Cherry: Guilty until proven innocent
I’m sure most people have heard that Joanna Cherry was recently sacked from the SNP’s Westminster front bench– but was it really because Nicola Sturgeon has a ‘zero-tolerance’ policy against…
SNP in “unprecedented turmoil” after reshuffle according to Edinburgh MP
A senior SNP MP has said the party is in “unprecedented turmoil” after being dropped from the party’s shadow cabinet at Westminster. Joanna Cherry, MP for Edinburgh South West since…
The ways in which J.K. Rowling’s critics silence trans voices
Content warning: discussion of misogyny and transphobia; mentions of domestic abuse and sexual assault There are few current issues which inspire as much rancour as the debate over trans self-identification,…
We must be free to disagree
For those Scots who value the legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment, Holyrood’s Hate Crime Bill may be the most regressive piece of political kowtowing in recent memory. Lockdown has seen…
There is no one way to be a woman: the future of our rights includes trans identities
Last Wednesday the University of Edinburgh platformed a panel discussion organised by the university’s Institute for Education, Teaching and Leadership. The speakers invited were women often referred to as “TERFs”…
The University of Edinburgh is ignoring institutional transphobia
Content warning: transmisogyny Definitions: Transgender (Trans): An individual who identifies as a different gender as the one they were assigned at birth Cisgender (Cis): An individual who identifies with the…