We knew that already.

Scotland’s national library ‘caved in to activists’ by removing gender-critical book

Scotland’s national library removed a gender-critical book from an exhibition because it caved in to pressure from activist members of staff, an independent review has found.

The library removed The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht, a collection of essays by feminists including JK Rowling and Joanna Cherry about their fight against Nicola Sturgeon’s gender self-ID laws.

The book was selected to be included in an exhibition opening in June celebrating the library’s centenary, but was removed after pressure from the library’s LGBT staff network, which called it “hate speech”.

Let this be a lesson to you. Never ever give in to the LGBT staff network. It’s at the mercy of the T, and the T is deranged and malevolent. The T hates women with every fiber of its being. The T should be cut loose from the LGB and then entirely ignored.

Amina Shah, Scotland’s national librarian and chief executive, decided to remove the book in August based on a risk assessment produced by the library which warned the book could be “perceived as harmful”.

That assessment, Ms Shah herself stated, was “not due to the content of the book itself or the views expressed” but to the “potential impact” it might have on the reputation of the Library. She said risks might include protests outside the library which would disrupt the exhibition as well as the potential for violence directed at staff and visitors.

So she caved. How very Neville Chamberlain of her.

The review also concluded that the process which resulted in the decision to exclude the book fell short of the library’s own equality, diversity and inclusion commitments by failing to “work in collaboration with people with lived experience of gender critical beliefs”.

Aha! For once it’s acknowledged that we have lived experience too!