SUSANNA RUSTIN IS ONE OF THE SURPRISing survivors of the present trans culture war, having managed to remain a Guardian columnist despite her heretical view that sex is biological. When at that paper, Suzanne Moore found that when she wrote about “female experience belonging to people with female bodies”, it was always “subbed out”.
Her column in March 2020, “Women must have the right to organise. We will not be silenced”, caused a storm: when subsequently 338 editorial, tech and commercial Guardian staff denounced the paper’s “pattern of publishing transphobic content”, she resigned.
Rustin’s colleague, Hadley Freeman, barred from writing about 2022 amid what she described as “an atmosphere of real fear”. She had enduredher words — “glowing profiles of trans activists” such as the homophobic, racist misogynist Munroe Bergdorf, while being forbidden to interview gender critics such as J.K. Rowling. (Those who think the tide of trans insanity is ebbing, note that Bergdorf, a biological male, was last January named as the first UN Women UK Champion.)
