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She claimed that she had been “publicly vilified” by her colleagues and had been “silenced and shunned” within her department. It can also be used to refer to people who are deemed to hold “transphobic” views. Terf, which stands for trans exclusionary radical feminist, is generally used as a derogatory term to describe those who believe that “identifying” as a woman is not the same as being born a woman. Prof Phoenix said that she was subsequently branded a “transphobe” and put on a “Terf list” which was circulated online. In 2019, she signed two open letters which criticised the LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall’s influence in universities, and she gave a talk about the challenges of housing transgender women in the women’s prisons. Prof Phoenix, who is an expert in sex, gender and justice, said that things started to go “horribly wrong” at the Open University when she spoke up about “ the silencing of academic debate on trans issues” two years ago. She says she hopes the case will force universities to protect female academics from the “ vicious bullying perpetrated by those who disagree with our beliefs on sex and gender”. Prof Jo Phoenix, who is the university’s chairman in criminology, claimed she had been made to feel like a “pariah” by colleagues and had been subjected to a campaign of harassment for two years that had made her life “unbearable”.
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Prof Jo Phoenix said that she was branded a ‘transphobe’ after signing two open letters criticising the LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall’s influence in universities - Sam Frost/Guardian/eyevineĪ professor who was labelled a “transphobe” by her colleagues for her gender-critical views is preparing to launch a tribunal against the Open University.