Even Oxford University can’t save Jenni Murray from the transgender activist mob

Here we go again. Perhaps there should be a template for journalists writing about transgender issues and the treatment of women with the “wrong” opinions. The template would look something like this:

A small group of noisy, angry people, many of them male, have demanded that [Insert woman’s name] not be allowed to speak/ appear/ have a job/ do anything because [woman] once said things the small group of people didn’t like or agree with.

Really, we could use it for so many cases and so many women: Germaine Greer, Julie Bindel, Janice Turner, Posy Parker, Linda Bellos…

Quite a diverse list that: makes you wonder what it is they have in common, and if that common characteristic has something to do with the demands that they shut up in the name of “trans rights”. Anyway, here’s the template with the latest details filled out:

Some Oxford University students are demanding that Dame Jenni Murray, the BBC Woman’s Hour presenter, be prevented from speaking to a student society about feminism, accusing her of having “transphobic” views. You can read a fair summary of the case here at the Oxford student newspaper Cherwell. Or, if you have a taste for over-written, overwrought undergraduate prose, you can read the entire statement issued by the “OU SU LGBTQ+” group here.