About this episode

Janet Murray discusses the impact of her gender critical views on her community choir and the controversy with the charity Scope.

Journalist Janet Murray tells Connie Shaw how her views about trans impacted her community choir. The "Singing Striders" were dropped by disability charity Scope from performing at the London Marathon. Scope objected to Janet's views, even though they were unrelated to her work with the choir. Scope backed down at the last minute, but too late for the show to go on. The choir row is just the latest attack Janet has suffered in a long campaign against her. #freespeech #transgender #ukpolitics Join the Free Speech Union: https://freespeechunion.org/ Follow the Free Speech Union X/Twitter: https://x.com/SpeechUnion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/freespeechunion/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpeechUnion Follow Janet Murray https://janetmurray.co.uk https://x.com/jan_murray https://janetmurray.substack.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/janet-murray74/

People in this episode

Host: Connie Shaw

Guest: Janet Murray

Topics covered

• free speech
• transgender issues
• community impact
• charity controversy
• UK politics

Keywords

• Janet Murray
• Singing Striders
• Scope
• transgender
• free speech
• community choir
• London Marathon
• UK politics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Scope, Singing Striders

Places: London, UK

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