From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Manvine Rana.

Back in May 2021, Sarah Pedersen, a respected academic, was asked to lead the board of a women's charity in Aberdeen. For her,

it was a deeply gratifying moment. I felt really good. I mean, I'd been on the board of trustees

for a couple of years by that point. I'd served as secretary and then the chair said that she

was going to stand down and I was actually really

surprised to be asked to take up that role so I felt yeah this is some way I can give back

so I was really pleased to do it. Sarah was honoured to be asked but she also knew that her

three decades of experience would bring real value to the board.

I've been campaigning for women's rights in my role as well.

I was sex equality champion at my university.

I've trained as a first responder at the university to support women in crisis students and staff.

So, you know, the whole thing, that the background was something that I felt confident

that I could step up to be the chair.

But just a few days after her appointment, things took a turn.

A couple of days later, I'm contacted by my deputy, the deputy chair of the charity, and she said that

she had been contacted by the leadership down in Edinburgh and that they had been concerned about

some discussion on social media about my appointment and that they'd also received some letters asking about, you know,

me being a gender-critical feminist and how that was going to impact on the charity and the

way in which they could support people.

Sarah was surprised to hear this from the charity's head office, but both she and her deputy assumed that it would blow over.

But it didn't.

The next day, the charity, their headquarters contacted her again, saying that, you know, things had got worse.

...