A talk cancelled by Nottingham City Council due to the author's views on transgender rights has continued to go ahead. Julie Bindel had been due to speak at Aspley Library about feminist activism on Saturday, June 25, but after the booking was cancelled by the council, the talk took place outside of the library instead.
The City Council cancelled the event due to Ms Bindel's views on transgender rights being at odds with the authority's equality, diversity and inclusion strategy. The author said: "My talk was going to be focused on how in many ways for young women things are worse than when I was a teenager in the seventies."
Ms Bindel also explained that her talk was going to be about "how we work together to solve problems facing young women today." For more than 40 years she has been a feminist activist and has successfully worked on many campaigns to end male violence, some of which have led to changes in the law.
