TRANSGENDER rights activists are urging a venue to cancel a feminist conference amid claims the event is “transphobic”.
TRANS activists have lost a battle to cancel a conference they claimed was transphobic after the venue was threatened with legal action.
Other speakers include a long list of international feminist campaigners, including Maria Paredes, a Colombian activist against male violence against women Ascension Gomez Lopez, a midwife who campaigns against obstetric violence and Bronwyn Winter, an Australian feminist and former academic. “‘Feminist’ conferences such as this legitimise debates around trans lives as an area of concern for women and pit trans rights against womens’ rights.
Lisa-Marie Taylor, the chief executive and co-founder of FiLiA, said: “We are delighted that our conference is going ahead. We were dismayed when we were informed by Platform at very short notice that they were not going to allow us into the venue. “The law is on their side. I stand in solidarity with FiLiA having myself been ‘cancelled’ earlier in the year, only for me to take similar legal action and for The Stand to back down.
David McKie of Levy and McRae, FiLiA's solicitors, said: “The Equality Act is very clear and is designed to prevent anyone being discriminated against on grounds of their beliefs.
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