In 2021 a petition was launched to get me ‘deplatformed’, or removed as a keynote speaker, from a midwifery conference in New Zealand. At the time, I was working with the lawyer Peter Daly to try to get the organisation Birthrights to apologise for their treatment of me. (Peter and I were not successful in this aim but that is perhaps a story for another day).
Just reading this again Milli and I'm again utterly flabbergasted and sickened by the absolute tripe spouted by these bizarre fanatics and their followers. Anyone who thinks transactivism isn't to all intents and purposes a cult, is deluding themselves. I remember thinking at the time of first reading this that it's all very reminiscent of "The Crucible", everyone falling over themselves to point the finger of blame lest they be pointed at themselves. It does feel though that in the last few years that the "dissenting" voices have got louder, and that questions are starting to emerge over the sanity of it all. Long may that continue!
The story of how I was 'deplatformed' as keynote at an international conference
Just reading this again Milli and I'm again utterly flabbergasted and sickened by the absolute tripe spouted by these bizarre fanatics and their followers. Anyone who thinks transactivism isn't to all intents and purposes a cult, is deluding themselves. I remember thinking at the time of first reading this that it's all very reminiscent of "The Crucible", everyone falling over themselves to point the finger of blame lest they be pointed at themselves. It does feel though that in the last few years that the "dissenting" voices have got louder, and that questions are starting to emerge over the sanity of it all. Long may that continue!