Gender-critical speech
The Free Speech Union has covered 240 stories on this topic. Browse our coverage below.
18 April 2026
A year on from the Supreme Court Ruling, gender-critical voices are still being silenced
One year on from the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on biological sex, gender-critical voices are still being silenced in workplaces, universities, and public bodies across Britain.
18 April 2026
Censored poet and FSU member Polly Clark fights back
T.S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet Polly Clark had her book removed from a prestigious literary magazine after a single complaint about her gender-critical social media posts — and the Free Speech Union helped her fight back.
18 April 2026
FSU Member Testimonial: Connie Shaw disciplined by Leeds University for gender-critical views
Connie Shaw was nearly expelled from the University of Leeds for expressing gender-critical beliefs — including ‘the offence’ of saying it was an honour to interview Graham Linehan. The Free Speech Union helped her beat the charges.
13 April 2026
NHS nurse who called trans paedophile prisoner ‘Mr’ wins settlement
Jennifer Melle, an NHS nurse from south London, has settled with her Trust after being suspended for calling a transgender paedophile patient ‘Mr’, citing her Christian faith. She continues to face two ongoing NMC investigations.
8 April 2026
NHS nurse of 42 years faced losing her honorary Queen’s Nurse title after being reported for gender-critical posts on X
Karen Webb, a specialist NHS nurse with 42 years of service, faced losing her honorary Queen’s Nurse title after a colleague reported her for gender-critical posts on X. The Free Speech Union intervened — and won.
8 April 2026
Research biologist at the University of Oxford almost silenced by trans activists within the biology department
Dr Ace North, a research biologist at Oxford, faced disciplinary proceedings after countering gender identity ideology displays in his department with quotes from gender-critical scientists. The FSU secured written assurances protecting his right to hold gender-critical beliefs.
4 April 2026
Home Secretary calls time on NCHIs, but the battle for common sense policing continues
The Home Secretary has announced the abolition of non-crime hate incidents in England and Wales — a long-campaigned-for FSU victory — but the fight for common sense policing isn’t over yet.
16 March 2026
FSU victory for gender-critical councillor
Independent councillor and FSU member Dulcie Tudor has been cleared by an external investigation into complaints about her gender-critical Facebook posts.
9 February 2026
Graham Linehan Gives Evidence to Congress on the UK's Free Speech Crisis
Graham Linehan told the US House Judiciary Committee that the UK's free speech crisis won't end until Keir Starmer leaves office — and urged America to act.
19 December 2025
Gender-critical former police officer takes the Home Secretary to court
11 December 2025
Free speech campaigners demand investigation into their arrest by Belgian Police
4 December 2025
NHS nurse suspended for calling trans paedophile “Mr”
25 November 2025
A tale of two halves for Graham Linehan
22 November 2025
Ex BBC journalist speaks about being forced out of BBC News for gender-critical views
20 October 2025
No Further Action for Graham Linehan
4 August 2025
Gender-critical campaigners welcome new EHRC Chair amid pressure on public bodies to enforce ‘biological sex’ ruling
24 July 2025
Brazilian feminist faces 25 years for misgendering politician under “social racism” law
5 July 2025
Denying services to gender-critical clients is unlawful, court rules
2 July 2025
Council accused of acting on false hate crime report to sanction gender-critical artist
2 July 2025
“Freedom-restricting harassment” of gender critical academics creating barriers to research, government review finds
4 June 2025
Publisher settles case after claiming she was ‘hounded out’ over gender-critical views
3 June 2025
Police accused of vilifying gender-critical views as ‘Nazi’ in internal communication
10 May 2025
I’m the girl banned for asking a transgender opponent: Are you a man?
8 May 2025
Gender critical football fan faces legal costs threat after stadium ban by Newcastle United
7 May 2025
Gay railway station volunteer banned over gender-critical views
5 May 2025
Staff at London bathing ponds gagged from discussing landmark women’s rights ruling
3 May 2025
Asking for pronouns ‘non-inclusive’, Liverpool University guidance says
3 May 2025
Sports bodies reverse trans inclusion policies following Supreme Court ruling
23 April 2025
The new biologically immutable Keir Starmer
22 April 2025
Professor fired for questioning gender ideology wins $1.6 million free speech settlement
21 April 2025
Supreme Court victors getting death threats in gender ruling backlash
19 April 2025
FSU-backed free speech victory as High Court rejects complaint against gender critical blogger
11 April 2025
Debate competition run by Oxford Union pressures children to declare gender pronouns
7 April 2025
Universities urged to review sex and gender policies after Sussex fined
31 March 2025
Toddler kicked out of nursery for discriminatory behaviour
31 March 2025
University of Sussex to fight record fine for free speech failures
28 March 2025
Kathleen Stock renounces academic title over ‘dim-witted’ trans policies
26 March 2025
The Kathleen Stock case shows the OfS means business on free speech
26 March 2025
University of Sussex to challenge £585,000 fine by regulator over transgender free speech case
24 March 2025
NHS nurse punished for calling transgender paedophile ‘Mr’
22 March 2025
Scientist forced out over gender beliefs wins two-year legal battle
18 March 2025
Do not discriminate against gender-critical women, Lib Dems told
12 March 2025
Fitness influencer faces abuse and death threats from trans activists after pledging to open female-only gym in London
10 March 2025
US Supreme Court to rule on laws requiring therapists to affirm gender identity
25 February 2025
Stonewall’s financial crisis: is Trump really to blame?
22 February 2025
EU ‘bans the word man’ in inclusive language guide
17 February 2025
NHS Nurse faces threatened with sack after ‘misgendering’ row
16 February 2025
Stormont politicians clash with gender-critical group over language on single-sex spaces
10 February 2025
Trade union accused of silencing women by pushing trans-rights agenda
7 February 2025
Science Museum attacks Lego as ‘heteronormative’
30 January 2025
Another teenage footballer banned for asking if trans opponents were men
27 January 2025
Nurse wins right to refer to transgender Doctor as male in legal battle
27 January 2025
Police Told to Avoid Saying ‘Black Sheep’ and ‘Pregnant Woman’ in EDI Speech Code
26 January 2025
Whitehall’s Biggest Departments Dump Stonewall Diversity Scheme
24 January 2025
University regulator under pressure to resolve Kathleen Stock investigation amid battle over watered-down free speech duties
23 January 2025
NHS seeking to ban a nurse from using the ‘wrong’ pronouns about a transgender doctor
13 January 2025
Civil Service to revise transgender policies following whistleblower settlement
12 January 2025
Nurse who complained about trans woman wins right for her case to be heard in public
31 December 2024
Richard Dawkins quits atheism foundation for backing transgender ‘religion’
19 December 2024
FSU case success over single-sex toilets comment
18 December 2024
Lib Dems barred domestic abuse survivor from standing as MP over gender-critical views
18 December 2024
Moira Deeming triumphs in gender-critical defamation case against Liberal leader
17 December 2024
Winter Pride event called off after FSU writes to Welsh Pride event
13 December 2024
Government announces ban on puberty blockers for under-18s
11 December 2024
In defence of Connie Shaw
10 December 2024
Spectator rebuked for calling trans author “man who claims to be a woman”
9 December 2024
Student barred from university radio over gender critical views will “keep fighting for free speech”
6 December 2024
Gender-critical student suspended from university radio after posting interview with detransitioner
6 December 2024
LNER accuses passenger of ‘transphobia’ for asking questions about its ‘Pride train’
4 December 2024
JK Rowling accuses New York Times of ‘rewriting history’ by downplaying abuse from trans activists
1 December 2024
Navratilova condemns New York Times for calling female athletes ‘non-transgender women’
25 November 2024
Police force faces legal action over guidance allowing trans officers to strip-search women
25 November 2024
Trans men can be pregnant too, says Labour MP in attack on ‘gendered language’
24 November 2024
Police log hate incident for refusal to shake hands in gender row
21 November 2024
Bar Council row over regulator’s plan for equality rules
21 November 2024
Carry on Kafka: this is our Brave New World
18 November 2024
Teenage girl banned over transgender remark appeals with help of group assisting Allison Pearson
16 November 2024
Police drop ‘terrifying’ hate crime investigation into Maya Forstater
12 November 2024
Key figures at world’s oldest breastfeeding charity quit over shift to gender ideology
8 November 2024
Woman hounded out of rape crisis centre over gender critical beliefs to receive £70,000
7 November 2024
Girl with suspected autism banned for asking transgender opponent: ‘Are you a man?’
25 October 2024
FSU a signatory on letter to Prime Minister expressing “grave concerns” over planned conversion therapy ban
23 October 2024
Microsoft Word “censors” the term maternity leave
23 October 2024
Teacher struck-off after questioning school’s gender identity policy
16 October 2024
Canada’s woke Stasi
16 October 2024
Samaritans suspends volunteer who criticised trans activists
15 October 2024
How the Stonewall gravy train came to an end
11 October 2024
Labour establishes new equality unit to push forward with trans-inclusive conversion therapy ban
9 October 2024
Iron bar wielding trans activists arrested at Paris protest over gender-critical book
9 October 2024
Non-binary customers win compensation for being asked if they are male or female
8 October 2024
Gender-critical Prof Jo Phoenix condemns Open University view “whitewash”
7 October 2024
The Open University publishes disappointing report on gender-critical professor Jo Phoenix’s Employment Tribunal
2 October 2024
The Culture War vs the Legal War
1 October 2024
Trans rapist referred to as ‘she’ by judge in latest attack on language of womanhood
28 September 2024
University professor sacked for questioning puberty blockers for gender confused children
19 September 2024
Free Speech Union sister group kicked out of Brighton pub after saying children shouldn’t be taught trans ideology
17 September 2024
Gender-neutral dog row led to harassment of lesbian worker, tribunal hears
16 September 2024
Trans CEO of rape crisis centre steps down after failing to protect women-only spaces
31 August 2024
FSU writes to Bank of England over staff instruction that not sharing pronouns is a “microaggression”
13 August 2024
Justin Welby “plainly wrong” over “egregious” blacklisting of gender critical chaplain
7 August 2024
New Zealand nurse targeted over conservative views on transgender issues
4 August 2024
BMA calls for trans teenagers to be prescribed puberty blockers
4 August 2024
Council admits discriminating against social worker over her gender-critical views
1 August 2024
City University London settles Dr Laura Favaro’s gender critical “silencing” tribunal claim
28 July 2024
Lib Dems admit discriminating against gender-critical candidate
25 July 2024
Gender critical barrister loses appeal against Stonewall
21 July 2024
Swiss 15 year-old taken into care after parents refuse to legally endorse gender “transition”
17 July 2024
Sir Keir Starmer has used his first King’s Speech to announce that a draft Bill will be brought forward to ban conversion practices
11 July 2024
Will gender identity ideology be taught as ‘fact’ in schools under Labour?
11 July 2024
Will single-sex spaces be preserved under Labour?
11 July 2024
Will so-called ‘conversion therapy’ be banned under Labour?
4 July 2024
Sick of woke censorship? You ain’t seen nothing yet
3 July 2024
FSU member successfully fights back after being banned from pub for gender critical views
2 July 2024
Pupil referred to counter-extremist Prevent officers by his own school after declaring there “are only two genders”
1 July 2024
FSU granted permission to intervene in two separate Court of Appeal cases
1 July 2024
FSU member refuses to be bullied by Liberal Democrat MP
26 June 2024
David Tennant’s attack on Kemi exposes the Left’s sinister hypocrisy
26 June 2024
This must be Labour’s most disturbing policy yet
25 June 2024
Labour will ban conversion therapy despite ‘test case’ fears
24 June 2024
Edinburgh Fringe venue threatens to pull play about JK Rowling’s trans rows
19 June 2024
Feminist campaigner accuses police of ‘bullying’ her over tweet about trans doctor
16 June 2024
Academic freedom in peril as top university ‘coerces’ staff into signing Stonewall-backed LGBTQ+ pledge
15 June 2024
The illiberal implications of Labour’s manifesto
10 June 2024
Olympics accused of waging “1984 version of war on women” over LGBT speech code for journalists
9 June 2024
Exeter University staff “feel coerced” to sign Stonewall anti-transphobia pledge
9 June 2024
UK gender critical charity permanently banned by Instagram
8 June 2024
JK Rowling backs NI woman’s bid to sue employer over gender critical belief discrimination
5 June 2024
The problem with Kemi Badenoch’s transgender reforms
5 June 2024
Trans rights activists help SNP set up a new NHS child gender service
4 June 2024
Amazon EDI training compelling staff to use preferred pronouns “at work and in your personal life”
4 June 2024
Regulatory body for speech therapists chilling free speech around gender ideology and critical race theory
1 June 2024
How Bloomsbury dropped books on gender ideology and British colonialism
29 May 2024
NHS staff told to apologise for using ‘wrong’ pronouns
25 May 2024
Literary society tells bookshops not to sell ‘Terf’ books
25 May 2024
Medical experts are unwilling to give evidence in gender cases
25 May 2024
FSU supporting academics after the BMJ rejected their research papers “because of their views on the trans debate”
24 May 2024
Gender-critical academics raise “ideological filtering” concerns over BMJ’s peer-review process
24 May 2024
Russell Group apologises for classing ‘gender critical’ views as hate speech
22 May 2024
Even rape-crisis centres are in hock to trans activists
20 May 2024
Legal victory for gender critical worker subjected to “heresy hunt” at trans inclusive rape crisis centre
19 May 2024
FSU member Eleanor Frances “forced out” of Whitehall over gender critical beliefs
18 May 2024
Scottish Greens expel members who believe in ‘biological sex’
16 May 2024
Stonewall ‘muddying waters’ on gender law, says former top judge
16 May 2024
Stop pampering the left’s attack dog
15 May 2024
Teachers must tell pupils gender ideology is a ‘contested belief’
11 May 2024
Government says “no plans” to restart funding for UK-based disinformation index blacklisting conservative and gender critical views
11 May 2024
UN throws out Stonewall’s bid to downgrade “trans hostile” EHRC over trans row
9 May 2024
Autism school signed up to LGBT charter pushing ‘pseudoscientific’ trans ideology
8 May 2024
Clinicians could fear prosecution under SNP’s ‘conversion therapy’ ban, says Hilary Cass
5 May 2024
Breastfeeding charity suspends trustees who want to ban trans women from its services
5 May 2024
Psychotherapy body rows with trans activists over conversion therapy memo
3 May 2024
Senior NHS doctor at trans clinic questions Dr Hilary Cass’s ‘expertise’
3 May 2024
Teacher banned over misgendering pupil “had free speech right infringed”
2 May 2024
Banned and spied on for her beliefs — FSU member launches legal action against Newcastle United Football Club!
2 May 2024
Stonewall’s guidance on gender doesn’t stand up to law
30 April 2024
Sex is biological fact, NHS declares in landmark pushback against gender ideology
29 April 2024
NHS to limit influence of trans ideology on medical language with new constitution
29 April 2024
Social worker suspended over gender critical views awarded £58,000
27 April 2024
The Cass review of gender identity services marks a return to reason and evidence – it must be defended
24 April 2024
The human cost of cancel culture
24 April 2024
Transphobia at Edinburgh University ‘driving out staff’
24 April 2024
Turn of the woke tide will leave many stranded
24 April 2024
Will the trans activists who cancelled me ever apologise?
23 April 2024
NSPCC whistleblower quits charity over trans grooming row
23 April 2024
UK-government funded ‘disinformation tracker’ labels gender critical beliefs as “anti-trans”
22 April 2024
Hilary Cass: I can’t travel on public transport after gender report
22 April 2024
Support for Stonewall crumbles after Cass review
20 April 2024
King’s College London bars staff from promotion unless they support pro-trans diversity policy
18 April 2024
BBC Scotland accused of pandering to trans activists in Cass Review coverage
17 April 2024
UK Physiotherapist Leaders Announce Goal To “Eradicate” Critics Of Gender Ideology From The Profession
16 April 2024
Gagging of the brave has let gender ideologues seize control
15 April 2024
Gender ideology and the ‘institutional capture’ of our public institutions
15 April 2024
How the SNP became trapped by ‘woke groupthink’ — and why it matters
14 April 2024
Why academia failed to challenge trans ideology
10 April 2024
JK Rowling is wasting police time with hate law ‘provocations’, suggests SNP
10 April 2024
NHS to review all transgender treatment, amid “exceptionally toxic” debate
10 April 2024
Police chief reveals SNP could extend hate crime laws to offer trans people more protection
10 April 2024
Rishi Sunak as committed to banning conversion therapy as ever
7 April 2024
BSB will not investigate barrister over misgendering trans lawyers
7 April 2024
Feminists accuse pro-trans activists of ‘intimidation’ on Scottish march
4 April 2024
Online comments made by JK Rowling not recorded as non-crime hate incident, Police Scotland confirms
4 April 2024
SNP conversion therapy ban ‘risks criminalising prayer and parental guidance’
4 April 2024
Trans boss accused of “heresy hunt” against gender-critical employee
3 April 2024
JK Rowling will not face prosecution under Scotland hate crime law
2 April 2024
JK Rowling challenges police: Arrest me under Scottish hate crime law
30 March 2024
Disciplinary action for ONS female employees if they object to trans colleagues using their lavatories
29 March 2024
Church tribunal clears clergyman who called trans archdeacon ‘a bloke’
29 March 2024
Civil servant sued over gender critical beliefs has case dropped.
26 March 2024
Teacher’s trans row employment tribunal collapses over anti-Tory slurs
23 March 2024
Doctors at gender-critical conference ambushed by masked trans activists
22 March 2024
Police Scotland accused of parodying JK Rowling with gender critical ‘Jo’ character in hate crime training
21 March 2024
Dr Laura Favaro’s research revealed female academics are bullied into silence over their views on gender – now she’s been silenced and ousted too
21 March 2024
Police Scotland accused of parodying JK Rowling with gender critical ‘Jo’ character in hate crime training
21 March 2024
Trans row shows BBC still under Stonewall’s sway, says John Humphrys
20 March 2024
Gender critical teacher tells tribunal he was sacked after refusing to use trans student’s preferred pronouns
20 March 2024
How I took on the puberty blocker orthodoxy – and won
20 March 2024
Justin Webb and the trans row causing a ‘meltdown’ at the BBC
19 March 2024
Artist reported to police for “hate crime” after criticising puberty blockers for children
19 March 2024
JK Rowling vows to defy “ludicrous” new hate crime laws
18 March 2024
Parents face 7 years’ jail if they challenge “puberty blocker law”
18 March 2024
Teacher sacked after refusing to treat eight-year-old biological female as a boy over welfare concerns
15 March 2024
British academic deplatformed by Canadian government because “you are not allowed to talk about sex in Canada”
14 March 2024
Fix the Equality Act to restore sanity to the trans debate
12 March 2024
Police broke freedom of speech rules by logging ‘misgendering’ complaint against JK Rowling as hate incident
11 March 2024
Police force host training day by group that say gender-critical views are hate speech
5 March 2024
Gender Conversion Therapy Bill talked out
4 March 2024
AstraZeneca under fire after LGBT+ staff group issue training saying “sex is not binary”
4 March 2024
X quietly revives anti-misgendering policy that Musk dropped last year
29 February 2024
Why Lloyd Russell-Moyle’s Conversion Therapy Bill is an assault on free speech
29 February 2024
Why Lloyd Russell-Moyle’s Conversion Therapy Bill is an Assault on Free Speech
27 February 2024
Guardian writer boycotts newspaper for airbrushing biological sex in report on transgender murderer
20 February 2024
Grassroots police launch gender critical network to push back against “culture of fear” within forces across Britain
19 February 2024
Local Labour Party branch pressures pub into cancelling Conservative-run debate with gender-critical activist
19 February 2024
Scottish Labour accused of “silencing” gender critical women members
17 February 2024
Multiple Sclerosis society defends staff who sacked 90-year-old volunteer for asking questions about preferred pronouns
17 February 2024
Royal College of General Practitioners forced into U-turn after conceding equalities legislation prevents cancellation of gender critical doctors’ conference
14 February 2024
Edinburgh University staff and students launch attempt to cancel new gender-critical Rector
12 February 2024
Pensioner threatened with £2,500 fine by local Council for “transphobic” gender critical posters on her front door
10 February 2024
Conversion therapy ban is threat to free speech, warns Tory peer
10 February 2024
Why have Newcastle United cancelled a fan for ‘wrongthink’?
9 February 2024
Shahrar Ali wins big free speech victory against Green Party over ‘gender critical’ views
9 February 2024
Why we should resist this “conversion therapy” ban
7 February 2024
“It was TERRIFYING” Newcastle United fan BANNED for trans views talks to Nigel Farage
7 February 2024
“Outrageous censorship” Swansea University pulls gender critical book from library to protect students
6 February 2024
German footballing authorities demand action against fans brandishing ‘gender critical’ banner
6 February 2024
Stonewall “targeting” boss of equalities watchdog with “unreasonable, vexatious complaints”
6 February 2024
Thousands of football fans may have been secretly investigated by Premier League for their political views
4 February 2024
"One of the most sinister things I've seen." Helen Joyce reacts to case of FSU member Linzi Smith
2 February 2024
Football fan banned over gender critical posts after ‘Stasi’ Premier League Investigation
29 January 2024
Cancel culture preventing Tavistock victims from coming forward, says lawyer
29 January 2024
“Everyone matters” but “no time for TERFs”: Network Rail’s LGBT+ Chair responds to criticism of company’s new ‘Pride Pillar’
29 January 2024
FSU assisting members including Father Ted writer Graham Linehan to launch two separate legal cases
29 January 2024
Trans staff may be triggered by census data, government statistics body feared
27 January 2024
The law is now clear: you can’t be punished for holding ‘gender-critical’ views
26 January 2024
FSU supporting group including Father Ted writer Graham Linehan to take legal action against Belfast pub in ‘gender critical’ free speech row
26 January 2024
Open University "apologises unreservedly" to gender critical Prof Jo Phoenix over freedom of speech failings
24 January 2024
Professor Jo Phoenix's legal triumph is also a triumph for freedom of speech
24 January 2024
Yes, employees have the right to be gender critical
23 January 2024
Open University Professor wins tribunal case over gender-critical views
13 January 2024
The disgusting attempt to silence Joey Barton
