CANNIBALISM: Left-On-Left Aggression: Transgender Activists Troll Gay Rights Advocates.

Far from encouraging debate, Beard and Tatchell have themselves now been labelled “transphobic”, in part for co-signing a letter along with individuals who have already been deemed transphobic, which Tatchell has railed against. “The letter was about freedom of speech, and includes no attack on trans rights. When I signed the letter I didn’t know who else was going to sign it. Now I am being condemned by the McCarthyite tactic of guilt by association,” he told the Independent.

In the days following the letter’s publication, Beard says she was “bombarded” by tweets and emails, including one tweet in which she was called “an unrepentent bigot”.