News about 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'.

Brendan O'Neill's latest book is a rallying cry against the politically correct zealots who are seeking to reclaim centuries-old values. In the first excerpt from our serialization in yesterday's Daily Mail, he outlined how a governing cultural class is afraid of entrusting democratic rights to ordinary people. He eviscerates another tenet of the new awakened orthodoxy here.

According to publishing experts, there are now scores of titles aimed at under the age of 11, including terms such as mothers and children changing gender. Following being promoted by LGBTQ activists, several students have also been included on primary school reading lists. Transgender Trend, a advocacy group concerned about the rapid rise in young people changing gender, reviewed 60 LGBTQ books targeted at primary-age children. Shelley Charlesworth, who supervised their probe, told The Mail on Sunday: 'Trans picture books are a completely new phenomenon.' 'This can't be overemphasised.' It is a cruel trick to tell young children that hairstyles and clothes will change their sex and that other children will then believe it to be true.

I have never met Conor Burns, the MP who has been barred from his service as a result of serious misconduct at the Conservative Party Conference. For all, I know he could be guilty of sin, totally innocent, or, as is often the case with these items, somewhere in between. The full details of what is supposed to have happened are uncertain. However, the charges seem to revolve around suspected 'lecherous' behavior against a younger man in the bar of a hotel on Tuesday night.

Gillian Philip, a former children's writer, now works as a truck driver. Since demonstrating her love for JK Rowling, she opens up about being smacked by her literary agent and company. 'I know it's a volatile topic that evokes a lot of emotion, but I can't have predicted the catastrophic fall-out from adding the hashtag #IStandWithJKRowling to my Twitter bio,' she tells Helen Carroll.

Joanne Harris, a Chocolat novelist, has dismissed JK Rowling's dispute as 'fabricated' as she fights to resign from her position as Chair of the Society of Authors after the brutal attack on Salman Rushdie. Rowling, 57, had tweeted her love for Rushdie after she was given a vile death threat from an Islamist militant who told her, 'Don't worry, you are next.' Harris, 58, then published a survey on Twitter asking 'Fellow-authors: have you ever been a victim of a death threat (credible or not).' The response options were 'Yes', 'Hell, sure', 'No, never', and 'Show me, dammit', with others dismissing this as implying doubt about how serious the risks were.

GILLIAN PHILIP: Sir Salman Rushdie's savage assault last Friday was a shocking example of the continuing threat to free expression in our culture. Politicians, writers, editors, and commentators have banded up to condemn the right of everyone to express themselves and tell their stories without fear since the barbaric incident in New York state. However, it would be much easier to take those words seriously if so many of our cultural figures, especially publishers, broadcasters, and educators, had not shamelessly colluded with intolerance in the past.

In an open letter to the trade union, radical feminist Julie Bindle, bestselling authors' Christina Dalcher, Anne Fine, Alex Marwood, and Paula Byrne, as well as journalist Helen Joyce, expressed their 'deep disquiet' for the organisation's refusal to speak out against violent threats to its members.' Harris shared on social media after a 'online assault' was made to the Harry Potter author, which police are probing. Rowling had been tweeting her support for Sir Salman following the on-stage assault on Friday, prompting the message, "Don't be concerned, you are next." Harris, 58, a trans rights advocate, wrote: 'Fellow-authors, have you ever been a victim of a murder threat (credible or not).' The response choices were 'Yes,'Yes,'Hell, yes', "No, never," and "Show me, dammit," with some interpreting this as implying doubt about how serious the threats were.

Following a 'online threat' made to JK Rowling (left), which police are probing, Joanne Harris (right), who is facing calls to resign from the service, who is investigating. When she was asked by someone online on Friday, she was tweeting her support for Sir Salman Rushdie in the aftermath of his stabbing, she said, 'Don't be concerned, you are next.' Harris, 58, who has been outspoken on the trans topic, wrote: "Fellow-authors" has ever been a death threat (credible or not).' The Chocolat novelist's response options (inset) were 'Yes', 'Hell, yes', "No, never," and 'Show me, dammit', implying mistrust about how serious the dangers were. Women who disagree with Harris on gender identity were'sententled' by her for not displaying'solidarity,' Rowling said after being'silenced and threatened' over their beliefs.