Hundreds of people criticised the move online
Nottingham City Council has attracted fierce criticism after it took the decision to cancel a talk at a city library due to the author's views on transgender rights. Feminist campaigner Julie Bindel had been due to speak at Aspley Library about 'feminist activism to end male violence in Nottingham' on Saturday, June 25.
Ms Bindel told Nottinghamshire Live the council's decision was "despicable". The authority has also been condemned by many on social media, including Labour MP Rosie Duffield, with hundreds of people commenting on their Twitter post confirming the cancellation."A library banning a woman writer with a history of writing about women's rights. How very progressive," she wrote on Twitter. Twitter user Penny O’Donnell also said she was "appalled" by the decision.
Ian McNee said: "It is political cowardice from Nottingham Labour and Adele Williams silencing women by hiding behind a dishonest boiler-plate statement that lies about Julie Bindel. The same backward identity politics that's hamstrung the left in the US & led to #RoeVsWade being lost." Nottingham City Council Deputy Leader, Councillor Adele Williams and Portfolio Holder for Neighbourhoods, Safety and Inclusion, Councillor Neghat Khan, said in a statement yesterday: “This was a private booking at Aspley Library by the ‘Nottingham Women for Change’ group and all ticket sales and marketing of the event had been undertaken independently with no input from the council."
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