This is not exactly censorship but I’m including it in the timeline because it is so ridiculous. The feminist philosophy journal Hypatia has just published a paper by Suzy Killmister that, in addition to discussing my book Gender-Critical Feminism (2022), also assesses my participation in feminist political rallies and makes an exceptionally weak attempt to associate my views with neo-Nazism. For example:

“My secondary goal is to consider whether, and if so how, enactment of the philosophical views developed in that book would move us closer to the oppressive world neo-Nazis are trying to bring about” (p. 1).

“Of course, the Melbourne neo-Nazis in attendance that day had almost certainly not read Lawford- Smith’s book, nor am I suggesting they would approve if they did. What I am suggesting is that there are key elements of the worldview developed in Gender-Critical Feminism that, if implemented, would bring us closer to the world imagined by neo-Nazis” (p. 16).

“My claim, then, is that gender-critical feminism risks being a useful, even if unwitting, ally to the far right. Biological difference is crucial to fascism” (ibid).

“Fascism is also averse to what it sees as sexual deviance … gender-critical feminism risks making itself an ally (unwitting or otherwise). While the text of Gender-Critical Feminism may not include any explicitly transphobic rhetoric, the metaphysical and political views developed there lend themselves to such rhetoric” (p. 17).

“If enacted, it” – (my version of gender-critical feminism) – “would instead bring about a world in which we are rigidly categorized into one of two sex classes, and those sex classes then shape our access to and roles within social space. That world is also one in which trans people are further singled out for denigration and violence, in virtue of transgressing the categories through which that world is structured. Such a world is too closely aligned to that imagined by neo-Nazis for it to be left unchallenged” (p. 18).