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Ringleader Dr Leigh Downes (pictured) who identifies as non-binary, led the harassment drive against Prof Jo Phoenix - publishing an open letter with 368 staff signatures to create a pile-on.

In the summer of 2021, Prof Jo Phoenix was at her lowest point in her life – lower, even, than when she was raped at age 15. Her mother had recently died, she had just had surgery for a fused spine, and her “stunning” career as an academic was imploding over accusations of transphobia.

After being ostracised and isolated, the academic speaks out after winning a landmark tribunal case over gender-critical network

Prof Jo Phoenix who was compared with ‘racist uncle at the Christmas table’ wins unfair dismissal claim A professor of criminology, who was compared with “a racist uncle at the Christmas table” because of her gender critical beliefs, has won an unfair dismissal claim against the Open University.

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An open letter by leading scholars condemns an ‘ideological cabal’ at the university’s gender studies department, the largest in the UK

On Monday came reports that Liz Truss, the equalities minister, is urging all government departments to quit the scheme. When the EHRC left last month, the watchdog said its decision was based on cost but it was announced just days after Stonewall and other LGBTQ+ groups had used an open letter to explain their “frustration and disappointment” at the EHRC’s “recent record on LGBTQ+ people’s rights and trans people’s rights specifically”. The letter was a response to the EHRC defen...

Exclusive: It comes as Stonewall’s boss has sparked a furious backlash by likening the belief that trans women are men to anti-Semitism

A UNIVERSITY admitted it made “serious mistakes” after two professors were blocked from taking part in seminars over accusations of transphobia.