I HAD the pleasure of interviewing the Scottish poet Jenny Lindsay last week. She is one of the bravest and most inspiring people I’ve ever encountered in my journalistic career. Her book Hounded: Women Harms And The Gender Wars chronicles the way in which her career was destroyed by a malevolent and insidious campaign of lies and outright intimidation, simply for stating her reasonable opposition to gender self-ID.
One of the most chilling aspects of Ms Lindsay’s hounding was the abject cowardice of some arts organisations, venue operators and media organisations. Even though many had misgivings about the threat to women’s rights posed by self-ID they all too often caved in to mobs of witchfinders. These have made it their business to roam Scotland seeking out gatherings of women for the purpose of intimidating them and, ultimately, silencing them.
They are able to indulge in such displays of orchestrated misogyny because the frauds who identify as left wing in Scotland have abandoned these women. At the same time, they’ve allowed their organisations to be hollowed out by a medievalist cult of science deniers. The SNP, the Labour Party and The Scottish LibDems have all chosen to look the other way when their women members have been hounded out of their jobs and off platforms.
Not a single individual in a leadership position in the trade unions has spoken out against this. I know several who are troubled by this erosion of free speech and the threat that women face wh.
