Julie Bindel

Julie Bindel

Julie Bindel (born 1970) is a British militant feminist writer. She has conducted extensive research into prostitution, which she opposes, and defended female victims of domestic violence who kill their husbands. [ [http://www.writewords.org.uk/interviews/julie_bindel.asp] ] She works as a freelance journalist and has written for The Guardian [ [http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/juliebindel] ] . She co-founded the group Justice For Women. As of 2008 she has been banned from speaking alongside the NUS LGBT Campaign, due to her arguments that transsexuals are damaged by surgery and that 'transexuality' is an unhelpful ideology that leaves people worse off. [ [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/jan/31/gender.weekend7] ] [ [http://resource.nusonline.co.uk/media/resource/CD6%20Motions%20Document%20LGBT.doc] ]

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