H OURS BEFORE Jo Phoenix, a professor of criminology at Britain’s Open University, was due to give a talk at Essex University about placing transgender women in women’s prisons, students threatened to barricade the hall. They complained that Ms Phoenix was a “transphobe” likely to engage in “hate speech”. A flyer with an image of a gun and text reading “shut the fuck up, TERF” ( trans-exclusionary radical feminist, a slur) was circulating. The university told Ms Phoenix it was postponing the event. Then the sociology department asked her for a copy of her talk. Days later it told her it had voted to rescind its invitation, and would issue no more. Ms Phoenix says she was “absolutely furious and deeply upset” about both the damage to her reputation and to academic freedom.
在英国公开大学的犯罪学教授乔·菲尼克斯（Jo Phoenix）面前，我们将在埃塞克斯大学（Essex University）发表讲话，即关于将跨性别妇女放在妇女监狱中，学生威胁要在大厅里封锁。他们抱怨说，菲尼克斯女士是一个可能从事“仇恨言论”的“跨性别者”。带有枪支图像和文字的传单，上面写着“闭嘴，terf”（跨性别激进的女权主义者，诽谤）正在流传。大学告诉凤凰女士，这是在推迟活动。然后，社会学部要求她提供她的演讲副本。几天后，它告诉她，它已投票决定取消其邀请，并且不再发表。菲尼克斯女士说，她对自己的声誉和学术自由的损害感到“绝对愤怒和沮丧”。
