Two academics whose film was blocked from being shown at the University of Edinburgh because it was accused of being “transphobic” have vowed to continue trying to screen it because the “implications of shutting down debate are enormous”.
A screening of Deirdre O’Neill and Michael Wayne’s Adult Human Female had already been cancelled in Nottingham after two separate venues refused to show it, when a scheduled showing was halted by students blocking entry into a lecture hall in Edinburgh.
LGBTQ+ groups and the local branch of the University and College Union called the film a “clear attack on trans people’s identities” and said it violated Edinburgh’s “respect” policy.
