A feminist campaigner, journalist and author is raising funds to sue Nottingham City Council after they cancelled her talk at a Nottinghamshire library. Julie Bindel was due to speak at Aspley Library on Saturday, June 25, but this talk was cancelled by the council after the "speaker's views on transgender rights was brought to the Library Service's attention."
Miss Bindel described the council's decision to cancel the event due to her own beliefs as "despicable." She said: "It's humiliating but more importantly it's disrespectful and insulting to the women and girls in Nottingham to be told they can't hear a feminist voice."
Due to the talk being sold out, Miss Bindel decided to keep hold the talk in the car park instead and said she would not be "intimidated" into cancelling it. A group opposing the talk from Nottingham Against Transphobia were also in attendance, and reportedly played loud music throughout the talk.
