A planned screening of an academic film that has been branded “transphobic” has again been shut down after being targeted by protesters.
The rearranged event on 26 April at the University of Edinburgh could not “safely” go ahead because people were blocking the entrance to the lecture theatre where it was due to take place, the university said.
Adult Human Female discusses the conflict between the rights of transgender people and those of women. A screening late last year was also cancelled in what the film-makers described as an attack on academic freedom.
Edinburgh’s Staff Pride Network and University and College Union (UCU) branch had objected to the film being shown at the university, saying it represented “an attack on trans people’s identities” and violated workplace respect polices. They also said many of the claims in the film were “provably false” and allowing it to be shown was an implicit endorsement of “unacademic and biased perspectives” by the university.
