Regardless of personal opinions about the documentary film, allowing censorious groups of staff and students to create an environment which the university itself has deemed unsafe for its screening, creates a climate hostile to academic freedom and antithetical to the rights and safety of women. Such privileges generally include the ability to hold, support or attend public events and debates.

’ The Higher Education Governance (Scotland) Act 2016 obliges universities to uphold academic freedom, without denying academic staff the privileges or entitlements normally accorded them by their institution. Edinburgh University has a stated commitment to facilitating ‘an environment where all members of our community are able to inquire, study, and debate. Universities are obliged to uphold academic freedom. These include, but are not limited to, sex dis-aggregated data collection, employment law, funding and commissioning of services, and single-sex spaces. Those wishing to watch the film and take part in the accompanying discussion were seeking to exercise their lawful right to engage in discourse on subjects that affect their daily lives and are the focus of academic research.

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