Hounded Out of Her Job for Publishing Gender Critical Authors
A female publisher is pursuing her case for unfair dismissal after she was, in her words, hounded out of her job for expressing gender-critical views.
She’s posted her case online here. It makes for chilling reading in an era where increasingly anyone deemed to have unacceptable views can have his or her career destroyed.
This is how her story starts:
My name is Ursula Doyle, and I have worked in book publishing for more than 30 years. Since 2008 I have worked at Hachette U.K., one of the U.K.’s leading publishing groups, first at its Virago imprint (a sub-brand of the publisher) before setting up my own imprint, Fleet, in 2016. Fleet publishes a wide range of fiction and nonfiction, and Fleet authors have between them won numerous awards, including four Pulitzers.
In 2020 I published Kathleen Stock’s influential book on sex and gender, Material Girls. Since then, I have been a target for abuse by colleagues in the book industry, who have used social media to accuse me of – among other things – bigotry, prejudice, transphobia and hatred, often tagging in my employer, Hachette, and Hachette’s Pride network.
Why does her case matter?
I was effectively punished for having published Kathleen Stock’s book Material Girls. Numerous gender-critical authors, including Helen Joyce (Trans) and Abigail Shrier (Irreversible Damage), have struggled to find publishers for their books, and the careers of children’s writers Rachel Rooney and Gillian Philip were ended because of their gender-critical views.
When you consider the impact these books have had on the conversations around sex and gender, it is easy to understand why publishing has been a key strategic target for gender identity activists. Their attempts to suppress all dissent at source have made the sector a hostile environment for anyone who dares to stand up for reality and freedom of expression. These tactics mean it is difficult for gender-critical books to find a publisher, and almost impossible for any authors who want to sell books on other topics to speak up on this subject.
The case is now advancing to a procedural hearing in August, and will probably go to court next year. She’s successfully crowd-funded her legal costs so far.
Worth reading in full.
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Well I wish Ursula all the best and hope for a successful outcome, especially as we all know she hasn’t done anything wrong and I fully expect by ”expressing gender critical views”, they really mean ”demonstrating common sense and a knowledge of basic human biology.” Echoes of what’s happening in Germany ( where free speech and democracy go to die, unless you’re a Leftard ) with ‘Nazi’ ( ”I’m not a fascist, you’re a fascist!” ) Faeser throwing her authoritarian weight around again; ”German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser “has shown us the ugly face of dictatorship,” says Jürgen Elsässer, founder and editor-in-chief of the right-wing magazine Compact, which was banned by the interior ministry on Tuesday, July 16th. In an interview for Junge Freiheit, Elsässer says the accusations made against his magazine are unsubstantiated, and that the move to ban the publication without any legal grounds is a blow against press freedom—meaning that any news outlet can be targeted from now on. As we reported previously, Nancy Faeser claims the ban is justified by saying that Compact and its affiliated organisations “are directed against the constitutional order” and that the magazine “agitates in an unspeakable way against Jews, Muslims, and against our democracy.” Jürgen Elsässer rejects the negative… Read more »
Nazi woman even sent loads of armed police to the editor-in-chief’s home to raid it and take his equipment. So who’s the ‘fascist’ and ‘anti-democratic’ one here then? Jeez…How do they even get away with such hypocrisy?
”BREAKING: Germany bans the right-wing Compact Magazine, raids home of chief magazine editor Jürgen Elsässer
Interior Minister Faeser gave the order
The magazine’s crime? “Stirring hate”
”Crushing freedom of speech under a jackboot is what that government is doing.” Elon Musk
https://x.com/erikahrens_ffm/status/1813300031883292920
There’s a simple answer to that: The powers utilized by Faesar are those set up as antifascist inquisition via edicts of the Allied Powers after the end of the second world war. Which means the hypocrisy is entirely on your side (not you personally, obviously): Assuming your side is the side of freedom and democracy, why is it ok to treat Germans in this way?
I haven’t got a clue what you are getting at.
Try literally.
Elsässer/ Compact are accused of “right-wing extremism” and seeking to overturn the German postwar political order. This is ultimatively based on anti-Nazi laws dictated by the world war two winners. If you think this treatment reeks of fascism, could there perhaps something wrong with the so-called free world which put these laws into place? Like, say, its foundations containing a more-than-solid portion of absolutely unforgiving anti-German racism?
Adding a practical example for that: I own a book published by the former NSDAP publishing house (Franz Eher Nachfahren, München). It’s a first person account of a Bavarian infantryman during WWI, a topic that’s of some interest to me. As far as I know, the most-recent revised version of the Austrian antifascism laws (Austria is much worse than Germany in this respect) makes this principally an offence punishable with jail time and I’d need to provide a valid excuse for owning such a book if was facing an Austrian court because of this.
Have you seen the video though? They’re even taking away his chairs, FFS! And apparently this requires the wearing of a balaclava, LOL. Absolute gestapo clowns. Meanwhile….round your neck of the woods…
Any idea what went down in Harehills this evening? I can’t seem to glean what this is all about;
”Hundreds of Muslims riot in Harehills, Leeds smashing police vehicles and attacking officers.
Meanwhile, this is the towns newly elected local councilor.
Is anyone surprised?”
https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1814014013832823204
Loads of footage floating about. In this one they overturn the police car;
https://x.com/NiohBerg/status/1813999810623770801
Perhaps no-one should be surprised given the history of riots in that area. The latest generation takes their turn.
In response to the Harehill, Leeds riot this is from a friend of mine who lives in Leeds…
‘A Romanian family with 5 children the youngest being 7 months
The baby was dropped on its head
Taken to Hosp , the Hosp contacted social services
Who went with police to remove all the children
The Family and neighbours attacked the police and turn the car upside down’
And the muzzies joined in.
https://x.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1814047452212740479
And Nigel Farage has commented on the Leeds “party.”
Thanks for the explainer on what lit the touch paper over there. It seems it doesn’t take a lot in an area like that. I hope the baby’s okay though. 🙁 Serious footage circulating. There were actually loads of police present but they were outnumbered and had to retreat due to the threat level. So then Harehills was left to the masses of thugs ( because any excuse if that’s the sort of low grade person you are ) to keep going well into the night, lighting fires and trashing everything. You can tell we’re talking subnormal I.Q people here because the amount of them holding up their phones to film everything, with the intention of uploading much of the footage, and I don’t think I saw one with their face covered. So they’ve gone and done the police’s job for them, who now just need to easily identify the culprits and go and round them up. Who needs CCTV when you’ve got glaikit buggers all filming each other? One short uploaded video identifies masses of thugs. Job done. Even the guy setting fire to the bus was filmed, face fully visible! Thick twats. I think they should consider renaming… Read more »
https://gript.ie/breaking-coolock-asylum-centre-is-in-flames/
Ireland is fighting back.
What a lucrative industry this is becoming for all the wrong reasons.
Kathleen Stock, Abigail Shrier and Helen Joyce are not gender critical they are gender realist.
This whole protected belief issue is heading in the wrong direction. Denying physical differences between men and women is a protected belief. The physical differences themselves are real.
And she owns a standard Schnauzer too, like me.
More power to her.