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[–]anonymale 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That is a good find. Shows that leading GCers like Julie Bindel have been facing the TRA saliva storm for more than a decade now. The article is by Jonathan Best, a gay musician and festival director. OP or mods, if you can would you consider altering the post's title to reflect that?

I wonder if the deletion had something to do with the thoughtcrime investigation his PhD institution, the University of Huddersfield, initiated against him in 2019. The complaint, that a student's genderspecialness was somehow endangered by Best's opinions, was thrown out. Here's a Mumsnet thread which quotes a tweet of his (the account is now deleted, by him or by Twitter I don't know):

The complaint against me at University of Huddersfield has been thrown out; there is no case for me to answer. However, the university has issued me with a formal warning because I went public with the details. I am appealing this sanction immediately.

Here is a news article featuring details of the complaint.

JB is now a staff member at Huddersfield, despite the TRAs' best efforts.

[–]divingrightintowork[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah I've been starting to notice how long a lot of this stuff has been going on for / has been actually batshit / awful

If you have a moment, you should look up the banning of Bitch from Boston's Dykefest / Dykemarch , you can get the gist of it here - http://bostondykemarcharchive.weebly.com/2007-controversy-over-bitch-performing.html

Also omg thank you for the research I was wondering what happened to him / if he was ok!

I'll try to edit the post later.