Simon Edge is a British writer and anti-transgender activist.
Background
Simon John Edge was born on December 25, 1964 in Chester, England. Edge graduated from King’s School, Chester, then earned master’s degrees from St Catharine’s College, Cambridge in 1986 and from City University in 2006.
From 1993 to 1995, Edge was editor of Capital Gay, a publication founded in 1981 that folded in 1995. Edge was freelance and on staff at several publications, including the Evening Statndard, Daily Express, WhatsOnStage, and Attitude. Edge has done press for Green Party candidates.
Edge was married to former Catholic priest Ezio Alessandroni from 2014 until Alessandroni’s death in 2017.
Anti-transgender activism
Edge wrote the 1995 nonfiction book With Friends Like These: Marxism and Gay Politics, which attacks progressive aspects of the LGBTQ rights movement.
Edge was a signatory of a 2020 Sunday Times open letter supporting anti-transgender activist J.K. Rowling. Edge said, “Like many others, I was horrified by the grotesque treatment of JK Rowling, who has received the vilest abuse for daring to challenge extreme gender ideology.”
Edge published The End of the World is Flat (2021) and In the Beginning (2021), satires of the transgender rights movement.
References
Edge, Simon (1995). With Friends Like These: Marxism and Gay Politics. UNKNO, ISBN 9780304333202
Greenhalgh, Hugo (September 29, 2020). Literary figures defend JK Rowling, say she’s been subjected to ‘an onslaught of abuse.’ Sunday Times https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/lifestyle/2020-09-29-literary-figures-defend-jk-rowling-say-shes-been-subjected-to-an-onslaught-of-abuse/
Edge, Simon (2023). In the Beginning. Lightning Books, ISBN 978-1785633546
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