An event raising concerns about women being threatened and harassed by transsexual activists has been cancelled – after a campaign by transsexual activists.
Millwall axed the meeting at The Den stadium after being bombarded by phone calls and emails.
The event was advertised as looking at “how concerns raised by women are being shut down through threats, harassment and accusations of ‘transphobia’”.
Shut down
Organiser Venice Allan said: “I got a call from the club saying they’d never seen anything like it — constant phone calls, emails, tweets. They were really spooked.”
Speakers included a number of feminist academics that wished to discuss “the implications and consequences” of transgenderism for women.
They also wanted to highlight “concerns over the government’s proposed updates for the Gender Recognition Act”.
These include allowing people to change their legal sex by self-declaring it.
Drama
A spokesman for the Championship side said: “We were pulled into a drama that we didn’t really feel we should be part of.”
The event went ahead at an alternative venue inside Parliament.
In December, Allan was forced to leave a Labour Women’s Network event because her presence made a transsexual activist feel “uncomfortable”.
She was suspended by the party earlier this year, partly for posting a photo with the caption: “Trans women are men”.
Forced out
Responding to her suspension, she tweeted: “If stating that males are men means that Labour don’t want me, quite frankly I hope they chuck me out”. Allan has now quit the party.
Currently, an adult who has been diagnosed with gender dysphoria and lived for two years as a person of the opposite sex, can apply for a gender recognition certificate.
But pressure is increasing to introduce the ‘self-declaration’ of legal sex.