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Providing a forum for "free speech" is the same timid response that taxpayer-supported organizations like the Vancouver Public Library give when providing a forum for Meghan Murphy (who profits from that speech).

Ditto notorious transphobe / far-right troll / pseudo-intellectual Jordan Peterson, who's been provided venues to speak at universities.

The "E" in TERF is "exclusionary:" Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist. Peterson likewise employs populist rhetoric to divide.
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