A respected academic forced to quit her job after being labelled the “racist uncle at the dinner table” over her gender-critical views, has raised over £160,000 to take her former employer to court.
Prof. Jo Phoenix launched the crowdfunding appeal after leaving her criminologist role at Open University in 2021.
She says her employers failed to protect her from a bullying campaign mounted by colleagues after she expressed views about the silencing of academic debate on transgender issues.
Phoenix, who was the university’s chairman in criminology, claimed she had been made to feel like a “pariah” by colleagues and was subjected to a campaign of harassment for two years that made her life “unbearable.”…