Eventbrite accused of ‘campaign of cancellation’ against women

A TICKETING website has been accused of conducting a “campaign of cancellation” against women after pulling tickets for gender-critical events over fears they could spread “hateful” views.

Eventbrite was being used to organise the launch of a book about the threat that gender ideology poses to feminism, but the platform’s “trust and safety team” refunded all the tickets to the gathering and deleted the listing. The launch of Defending Women’s Spaces has become the latest in a string of gendercritical events to have tickets pulled by Eventbrite and the company has been accused of pursuing a “campaign of cancellation” against women.

It is claimed the firm’s Us-based “trust and safety” ethics team is silencing critical discussion of gender ideology.

Judith Green, co-founder of Woman’s Place UK, the campaign group that organised the event, said: “It is outrageous and grimly ironic that two of this country’s pre-eminent feminist campaigners against male violence against women should be the subject of cancellation on an entirely bogus pretext.”

The event was set to be hosted on Nov 24 by Julie Bindel, an author, and fellow writer Karen Ingala Smith, who wrote Defending Women’s Spaces,a book warning of the need for single-sex environments.

But yesterday evening, ticket holders were refunded their tickets, the event was removed from the Eventbrite website and organisers were informed by the “trust and safety” team that the event violated policies on “hateful, dangerous or violent content”.

A Nottingham screening of the documentary film Adult Human Female –a critique of gender-ideology and women’s rights issues – also had its tickets pulled and its listing deleted by Eventbrite on Tuesday.

Sian Louise, the organiser of the screening, said that it was part of a “campaign of cancellation”.

She described the “targeting” of the string of gender-critical events as an “authoritarian” attempt to “silence women’s discussion”.

A similar “effective cancellation” was experienced by Sarah Phillimore, a barrister, and Graham Linehan, a comedy writer, in October, when their launch for a gender-critical book Transpositions had its listing and tickets purged.

All organisers were given the same message about “hateful, dangerous” content.

Eventbrite’s actions have already led Ms Phillimore, a family law barrister and event organiser, to consider legal action against the company.

Ms Phillimore previously told The Daily Telegraph: “I will not be branded ‘hateful’. What they have done is unlawful, and it’s been proven to be unlawful. Gender-critical views are protected.”

Eventbrite has been contacted for comment.