Meghan Murphy
Posted on 10/17/2019 3:34:09 PM PDT by rickmichaels
TORONTO — The Toronto Public Library is coming under fire over its refusal to cancel an event featuring a speaker who believes transgender rights endanger women, with several authors vowing to boycott the institution’s events in light of its decision.
An online petition that had gathered more than 2,500 signatures by Wednesday afternoon says the library is providing a platform for Meghan Murphy to spread hate speech.
The petition, started by authors Alicia Elliott, Catherine Hernandez and Carrianne Leung, says the publishing professionals who sign it will no longer participate in events at the library if the talk is allowed to go ahead on Oct. 29.
“We are shocked that our public institutions we hold in regard would allow Murphy to have a platform while purporting to uphold community values. More than that, we feel betrayed,” the petition reads.
“Offering Murphy a platform means denying the resources and promise of safe and equitable space to trans communities.”
Hernandez said she had moved her book launch, scheduled for this Sunday, to a local bookstore. Several other authors, including novelist and poet Zoe Whittall and cartoonist Kate Beaton, tweeted their support for the petition.
Murphy, a freelance writer who runs the website “Feminist Current,” has written that “allowing men to identify as women” endangers women and undermines women’s rights.
She has also said trans women should not be allowed in women’s washrooms, writing that “there is absolutely no reason why it is necessary to allow people to access washrooms based on their personality, feelings, or clothing choices, versus their sex.”
Murphy said Wednesday she has faced similar opposition at previous events, but nonetheless found the backlash “shocking and baffling.”
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Meghan Murphy
We need to stop allowing the left to be the arbiters of speech.
They dont decide for all of us what speech is promoted and what is “hate” speech.
Reject their self-assumed authority.
I have been watching this, because I’m. Curious what happens when two liberal sacred cows lock horns so to speak.
The most strident and childish among the two usually wins. In other words, the toddler triumphs over the adult. It’s effing ridiculous.
Anything that disagrees with their agenda / narrative, they classify as hate speech.
Because there are no spankings to be afraid of, to continue the metaphor.
Woke on Woke.
Elliot.
Leung.
Hernandez.
... what happens when two liberal sacred cows lock horns so to speak.
Islam is Right about Women/Homosexuals
Simple logic says the trannies’ threat to boycott is a nonstarter. Real women far outnumber them.
That book title: A Mind Spread Out On the Ground—?!?
WTH does that even mean?
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