An event featuring a prominent MP who has been outspoken in the bitter debate about trans rights has been cancelled by the Edinburgh Fringe’s biggest comedy club.
Joanna Cherry was due to take part in an “In conversation with . . . ” discussion at The Stand’s New Town Theatre during the summer.
But she has been “no platformed” after staff at the venue, including management and box office personnel, said they would not be comfortable working at the show.
Comedy club officials are understood to have scrapped the show because they could not alleviate staff concerns.
Cherry, 57, is the SNP chairwoman of Westminster’s human rights committee and MP for Edinburgh South West. She has defied the party’s leadership with her stand against legislation which would allow trans people to legally change their sex through self-identification on the grounds that it could undermine women’s rights.
A Terf, in other words. Of course she can't be allowed to speak. People would get traumatised!
Mick Hartley 
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