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How the gender debate shaped the new face of moralism

1 May 2023

7:28 PM

1 May 2023

7:28 PM

Disruptions of feminist meetings by trans rights activists have become commonplace in recent years. Tactics include pressuring venues, blocking entrances, occupying meeting rooms, and heckling speakers. We have quickly become accustomed to this behaviour and even indulgent of its logic, not least the attempt to analogise attacks on lawful, peaceful assembly to earlier no-platforming strategies against fascists and others committed to destroying democracy.

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