The Edinburgh Fringe was once the site of daring theatre and radical thought now it’s home to ‘ cowering obedient pissants’, as one comic calls them, who gleefully shut down unruly women.

At last year’s Fringe, female comic Elaine Miller was spat on in the street and the posters for her show were defaced, because she too refuses to submit to the science-defying dogma that says a man can be a woman. Imagine going back in time and trying to explain to someone that in the future men who claim to be lesbians will be complaining about the presence in public life of an actual lesbian, and that they’ll be applauded for doing so. Black is a biological male who identifies as a transsexual lesbian. Cherry’s card was marked a couple of months back when trans comedian Bethany Black withdrew from a performance at The Stand over its repulsive moral error of giving Cherry a platform. The Fringe is fast becoming a no-go zone for outrageous women who refuse to daintily bow down to the gender cult. The old blue-rinse lobby that viewed the likes of Ms Cherry as an abomination against God have been replaced by blue-haired art kids who see her as an abomination against their self-esteem. It used to be the Bible-bashing Christian right that was made ‘uncomfortable’ by outspoken lesbians – now it’s Guardian-reading young people.

But, according to The Times, the plug’s been pulled because venue staff said the presence of this sinful, scandalous woman would make them feel ‘ uncomfortable’. Ms Cherry had been due to take part in a discussion at The Stand in Edinburgh during the Fringe festival this summer. The lesbian who’s been silenced is Joanna Cherry, the SNP MP who keeps committing the thoughtcrime of understanding biology and supporting women’s sex-based rights. All of these things – these sexist, censorious, intolerant things – are happening up there.

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