Suzanne Moore

 ( 1958 Births ) 

After various jobs in Britain and overseas, including waitressing, shop work and door-to-door sales, Moore embarked on a psychology degree at Middlesex Polytechnic, but soon switched to cultural studies. She began a PhD and journalism career simultaneously after graduation, but ceased work on her doctorate after 18 months.

Moore has been extensively opposed to what she terms "trans ideology" - describing trans activists as "scary" and "deranged", - and has advocated for the United Kingdom to "kill off" transgender rights entirely, including access to gender-affirming care, recognition of transgender women as women, and allowance of transgender women into women's changing rooms, shelters, prisons, or sports. In March 2020, following the publication of an opinion piece written by Moore, titled "Women must have the right to organise. We will not be silenced" in The Guardian, the paper received a letter, with over 200 signatories, which rejected Moore's implication that "advocating for trans rights poses a threat to cisgender women". The letter was signed by politicians such as Siân Berry, Christine Jardine, Nadia Whittome and Zarah Sultana, and writers and journalists including Ash Sarkar and Reni Eddo-Lodge. The newspaper published the letter alongside others received in response to the article, both supportive and critical.

In September of the same year, The Telegraph wrote that Moore "had to have police protection some years back as a result of voicing an unpopular opinion and she has been deluged with abuse, rape and death threats online, even threats to rape her children." On 16 November 2020, Moore announced she had left The Guardian. It had been her primary place of employment since the 1990s. In UnHerd, she later wrote that when she had attempted to write "about female experience belonging to people with female bodies... it is always Subeditor out" by editorial. Moore added that she had never fitted in at The Guardian, saying: "The personal becomes political at the moment you never feel clean enough. I was always somehow inappropriate there."

Moore opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq and wrote several articles criticising the Iraq War. Moore stood as an independent candidate for the constituency of Hackney North and Stoke Newington in the 2010 UK general election due to her disillusionment with the main political parties. She finished sixth with 0.6% of the vote, losing to the Labour incumbent Diane Abbott and forfeiting her deposit.