The University of Melbourne has cleared a philosophy lecturer at the centre of a boycott campaign by trans rights activists of any disciplinary breach for attending a women’s rights rally gatecrashed by neo-Nazis.
A broader dispute between the outspoken gender critical feminist, trans rights campaigners and the university shows no sign of abating, however, with Holly Lawford-Smith pressing ahead with a WorkSafe complaint against her employer and the university preparing to deploy security guards outside her second-year feminism class.
Nearly two months after the university launched an internal investigation into Lawford-Smith’s attendance at the Let Women Speak rally on the steps of the Victorian Parliament, it last week formally informed her she had no case to answer.
Source: Holly Lawford-Smith: University of Melbourne closes book on lecturer transphobia complaints