Gender-critical women have a right to be heard

Campaigners outside the Scottish parliament urging the government to implement the supreme court ruling on gender, on 4 September. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

Thank you for publishing a measured and mature piece about the rights of people with gender-critical views to be heard (A gender-critical book at Scotland’s National Library is the latest in a long line of cancellations, 12 September). We are not horrible bigots who do not accept trans people and think they should face discrimination. But that is usually the narrative.

We are mainly women who have real and well-researched concerns about, for example, the effects of medical treatment that was being given to young people – who do not have the maturity to appreciate the life-changing outcomes of puberty blockers and irreversible surgery.