UPDATE – BREAKING:  The Royal Academy of Art have climbed down and apologised to Jess De Wahl over the suspension of sales of her work and products based on her work.  In addition to this the RA has made a public statement clearly setting out their support for freedom of expression.  It looks as if the justifiable public outcry about the RA doing the bidding of the wilder shores of the cult of trans has bounced back and hit them squarely in the face.  More details here:  https://twitter.com/NickCohen4/status/1407628554452586497

This piece which I’ve linked below is well worth a read. It tells the story of Jess De Wahl an artist who works in embroidery. She had designs based on her work removed from the Royal Academy’s shop, not because there was anything wrong with or objectionable about her art, but because she refuses to go along with the demands of the wilder shores of the trans cult.

The piece linked below is by the writer and commentator Sarah Dittum and published in Unherd, It concerns how Ms De Wahl, who having been born in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall, is acutely aware of the dangers of cancel culture and authoritarianism, was cancelled by the RA because she wrote a thoughtful article about the issue of transgenderism. She said that she was more than willing to accept people as they are or how they presented and in generally had no problem with trans people, what she objected to was allowing people to make unsubstantiated assertions that they were of a sex other than that of their birth sex.

Sarah Dittum said:

So it didn’t matter how precise De Wahls was when she wrote: “I have no issue with somebody who feels more comfortable expressing themselves as if they are the other sex (or in whatever way they please for that matter).” It didn’t matter that she described her own close and supportive relationship with her father, who lives a gloriously gender-nonconforming life in heels and lipstick. It didn’t matter that De Wahls, who was a child in pre-unification East Germany, drew parallels between the chilling propriety of gender-identity dogma and the constant self-censorship demanded by life under the stasi.

What mattered was that she had said no, and no amount of thoughtfulness or articulacy can make female refusal inoffensive. “I can not accept people’s unsubstantiated assertions that they are in fact the opposite sex to when they were born and deserve to be extended the same rights as if they were born as such,” De Wahls stated, and in doing so she asserted both an internal and an external boundary: a boundary that said she would not automatically treat male people as though they were female, and a boundary that said she would not think of male people as though they were female.

The cancelling of Ms De Wahls is in my view disgusting and biased, especially as Ms Dittum said that the RA has books about and art products produced by artists whose personal lives fell a long way short of what many people would call acceptable and not just unacceptable today but at the time when these artists were active. Ms De Wahls is being cancelled because she will not abandon reality for the comforting lies of a powerful and well connected cult and the RA should be ashamed of itself over its actions towards her.

You can read the entirety of Ms Dittum’s article via the link below:

https://unherd.com/2021/06/the-royal-academys-woman-problem/