Magdalen Berns

Magdalen Berns. Born May 1983. A lesbian, radical feminist, and critic of gender identity ideology. She helped to co-found the campaigning organisation For Women Scotland. Born in London, Berns attended Hampstead School in Camden, London. After leaving Hampstead School, Berns worked as a sound engineer until attending the University of Edinburgh in her thirties. She initially studied engineering, receiving a Doris Gray Scholarship — an award for underprivileged women studying engineering in Scotland — from the Women's Engineering Society. Berns was active in Scottish amateur boxing. From 2009 to 2011, she was a member of the Edinburgh-based Leith Victoria amateur boxing club. In 2015, Berns expressed opposition to the Edinburgh University Students' Association "LGBT Liberation" group, issuing a statement of support for the decision to exclude drag acts from participating in that year's Pride Glasgow event.[45] In 2016, Berns was banned from the University of Edinburgh's Feminist Society for opposing the decriminalisation of prostitution . She died from a brain tumour in 2019.

References

<references>