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Ms Moore, 62, announced last month that she was leaving the publication
She left after she wrote an article that caused a transphobia row at the paper
More than 300 Guardian staff penned a letter of complaint about Ms Moore
She said on Thursday that her editors failure to back her was morally cowardly
Last month Ms Moore said the Guardian s editor offered to take her out for lunch
This was instead of a public statement denouncing the mass letter
Oxford University biggest funder of anti-trans group
OXFORD University has paid a £20,000 consultancy fee to a women s rights group accused of being anti-transgender , making the university the biggest single financial supporter of the group. The money was paid to Woman s Place UK earlier this year for its support research into women’s sex based rights as part of a new research programme announced in September. The group has been the subject of much controversy over its views on transgender rights and was recently branded as a trans-exclusionary hate group by the Labour Campaign for Trans Rights. A statement on Woman s Place UK website read: We received a consultancy fee of £20,000 from Oxford University to support research into women’s sex based rights as part of the Women and Equalities Law: Historical Perspectives project which was funded by Strategic Priority QR funding allocated to Oxford University.
The journalist Toby Young said he would be writing, as a director of the Free Speech Union, to Cambridge’s vice-chancellor, Prof Stephen Toope, to ask for the invitation to Peterson to go ahead following Tope’s welcome of the vote this week as “an emphatic reaffirmation of free speech in our university”.
A dozen members of the Free Speech Union were said by Young to have been among the academics on the university’s governing body, Regent House, who voted by an overwhelming majority (86.9%) in favour of the changes to the proposed freedom of speech policy.
Initially the policy would have required Cambridge University staff, students and visitors to be “respectful” of differing views. This was overwhelmingly rejected in a vote by the university’s governing body.