From the Telegraph’s coverage of the tribunal:

Naomi Cunningham, for the academics, said: “The conduct of the union in encouraging protest against these screenings and calling for [the] venue to be withdrawn was a completely consistent part of a wider course of conduct.” She said that Dr Wanggren, Grant Buttars, UCU Edinburgh branch president, and the union had sought to create “a hostile environment for anyone who held a gender critical view”.

Ms Cunningham added: “You were trying to create an environment, both at Edinburgh University and in the union as a whole, in which it was simply impossible to discuss gender critical ideas or arguments at all because you regarded those ideas as inherently transphobic.” She went on to say: “The branches conduct in response to the two proposed screenings was for the specific purpose of creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for any member of the union with gender critical views, whether at Edinburgh or elsewhere, wasn’t it?”

Dr Wanggren replied: “Absolutely not.”

Ms Cunningham suggested that large numbers of gender-critical members of the union have now left.

Dr Wanggren said that was “not to my knowledge” but that she is aware that some people had left, and said a comparable film with different or opposing views would likely have been treated the same way. She said: “I am telling the tribunal that if a comparable film against any other minority group that used the kind of language, the broad brush strokes that harm that minoritised community, UCU would in line with our policies [have] acted in a similar way.”

She said the union has a policy on a range of equality issues including those affecting trans, race and LGBTQ communities.

But not, of course, women. Never women. Never ever women.

Why is that, exactly?

Is it because women are not strictly speaking a “minority”?

And yet women are treated like a minority, and arguably viewed as a minority. Women are the Other. Women are the mistake, the exception, the where things went wrong, the defective. Proper people are male, with the big muscles and the beards and above all no nasty stinky hole Down There. Men are the real people and women are the sly plotting treacherous feeble mistakes.

That’s why UCU and Dr Wanggren wouldn’t dream of protecting women’s right to speak and protest. Women don’t deserve it. The only good woman is a male woman.