Gillian Philip

Gillian Philip (right), 59, Philip, claims she was 'discriminated' against by book packaging firm Working Partners and publisher HarperCollins after adding #IStandWithJKRowling, in favor of the Harry Potter author, to her Twitter bio (inset). Rowling has long been accused of being transphobic. Working Partners, which subpoenas authors to pen titles for major publishers, had ended the author's deal within a month of putting the hashtag on her website, according to HarperCollins' instructions.

Stephanie Davies-Arai, the maker of a campaign group worried about the rapid rise in young people changing gender, spoke out following the outrage over a children's book starring a man in bondage gear and a woman with trans 'top surgery' scars. Grandad's Pride,' by award-winning non-binary author Harry Woodgate, was dismissed by several parents and ultimately banned from a nursery in Hull after a woman and her father refused to read their four-year-old daughter's book's content.' Ms Davies-Arai told MailOnline how the number of books with trans themes targeting the very young children has 'exploded' in recent years, and that the message is "very risky" because many children are told they can'change sex by deciding.' On one of them, Byee Binary (top left), a baby who refuses to reveal his gender, and another, called A Match for a Mermaid (top, center), features a Merman with mastectomy scars. Everybody is a Rainbow (top right) was written by Caroline Carter and published by Rainbow Kids Press in 2001. Born Ready (bottom left) is a youth development program geared at children aged between four and eight years old. I am Not a Girl (bottom center), a transgender boy's book, is targeted at children aged three to six. The Pronoun Party of Payden was first published in 2022 by Page Street Publishers. It is aimed at children aged between four and eight

After being jettisoned from her role writing titles that were not released by major company HarperCollins in 2020, Gillian Philip (left), 59, became a lorry driver. It came after the writer, who wrote a popular series of books for eight-to-year-olds, posted the hashtag #IStandWithJKRowling on her Twitter account. She struck out on a podcast produced by the Free Speech Union, arguing that activists who believe that "cancel culture" is not true, highlighting how she lost her job and income overnight. Women who enter the trans debate, she said, must be anonymous on social media because "demonium will come for them." Ms. Philip had expressed her support for Ms Rowling (right) after the Harry Potter author retweeted an article referring to "people who menstruate" and wondered why the book did not use the word 'women'.