Maggie Chapman and the Silence of Anti-Trans ‘Free Speech’ Warriors

Free speech for anti-trans “gender critical” activists, but women standing up for trans people is not allowed

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In the wake of the UK Supreme Court on the definition of “sex” in the Equality Act, there haven’t been many politicians willing to speak up for trans people or our rights, rights that have just been removed by the highest court in the land.

One of the few who have is Green MSP (Member of the Scottish Parliament) Maggie Chapman, and she’s being made to pay for it. You see, in the UK, being “gender critical”, aka anti-trans, is free speech and a protected belief under the Equality Act. Calling out transphobia? Not so much, apparently.

At a protest against the Supreme Court ruling in her home city of Aberdeen, one of many across the UK that the mainstream media have largely ignored, Chapman against the “bigotry, prejudice and hatred… coming from the Supreme Court and from so many other institutions in our society”.

: the Supreme Court from intervening in the case, peppered transphobic language and assumptions throughout its judgment, and used a binary definition of “biological sex” which the Resident Doctor’s wing of…