[1] The university issued a public apology to both academics and was subject to review their internal policy regarding inviting speakers in the future.
[2] The review states that backlash followed as credible threats of disruption and barricading of classrooms occurred as well as a flyer directed at Phoenix being circulated with violent imagery and displaying the text "Shut the fuck up, TERF.".
Since the University of Essex is a public authority it has an duty to uphold the right to free expression and thus the blacklisting was not considered to be held on credible grounds.
[5] The allegation followed due to concerns over a 2018 open letter by Freedman and 54 other academics on the culture of fear surrounding the conducting of research into transgender issues.
[7] Debates on academic freedom have continued with the Reindorf Report being an example of how university institutions prevent research into politically sensitive issues and how this impacts science as a whole.