Mick Hartley

More feminists hounded out of their jobs simply for showing support for JK Rowling, or expressing gender-critical views:

A New York Times best-selling author and a literary agent’s assistant are the two latest scalps claimed in the war being waged against women on Twitter by trans-activists.

Author Gillian Philip, who was part of a team of writers of hugely successful animal fantasy novels for children under the name Erin Hunter, was sacked following a Twitter pile-on when she Tweeted her support for JK Rowling.

In the 24 hours after adding #IStandWithJKRowling to her Twitter handle, the Scots author received hundreds of abusive messages, including threats of death, sexual violence and images of guns. “I’m going to punch u in the throat,” declared one.

Instead of leaping to her defence, Philip’s employer Working Partners sacked her. Philip writes in the Daily Mail that she was told by managing director Chris Snowden: “HarperCollins say you’re out. They don’t want you involved in any of the books and don’t want your name on any of the books.”  [..]

Meanwhile, in New York, an assistant at The Tobias Literary Agency, Sasha White, has been fired after retweeting “TW [trans women] being vulnerable to male violence does not make you women”. White’s Twitter account bio reads: “gender non conformity is wonderful; denying biological sex not so”. 

The agency’s Twitter account, which has since been made private, stated: “We do not have any room for anti-Trans sentiments at TLA. Period. Thus we have parted ways with Sasha.” 

There follows a useful list of other women who've suffered similarly for expressing gender-critical views – though it could be clearer:

Maya Forstater: the tax expert’s contract was not renewed at think tank Centre for Global Studies after she tweeted that: ‘being a woman / female is a matter of identity or womanly feelings’ rather than one of biology. 

Forstater, of course, is stating there the view she's opposed to, not what she herself thinks.

Update: they've now changed the Maya Forstater entry:

[T]he tax expert’s contract was not renewed at think tank Centre for Global Studies after she tweeted: “I think that male people are not women. I don't think being a woman/female is a matter of identity or womanly feelings. It is biology.”