Universities face a 'growing creep of self-censorship' a Tory minister has warned, after Edinburgh students cancelled a screening of a 'transphobic' film.
Education minister Claire Coutinho has warned that the right to free speech is 'in the very institutions where it should be the most treasured' after students at the University of Edinburgh stopped a showing of Adult Human Female.
The documentary, which has been criticised for containing 'transphobic language' and 'spreading misinformation about trans people' was due to be shown in a lecture theatre on Wednesday night.
But students at the university blocked the doors a week after Edinburgh's University and College Union writing to the principal last week to ask that the event be cancelled or moved from an official University building.
