Alex Salmond has said Joanna Cherry was treated "shamefully" after a leading Edinburgh venue cancelled her planned Fringe show.
The former first minister told the Record "people have the right to put forward an alternative view" after The Stand comedy club pulled the plug on a talkshow featuring the SNP MP.
Cherry, a leading critic of the Scottish Government's Gender Recognition Reform (GRR) legislation, claimed she had been discriminated against on the basis of her opinions.