EXCLUSIVE: Scouting Ireland, the body which oversees scouts and cub scouts in Ireland, is embroiled in a row after a new policy was announced at the weekend which would see biological men recognised as women for the purpose of supervising children:https://t.co/XOFCcmqSes
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What could possibly go wrong?
dding-left: 40px”>Bindel has a plane to catch: she is going to visit Vancouver Rape Relief, the centre she wrote about back in 2004 — which, she says, has stayed firmly women-only. She is looking forward to talking to the young lesbians who work there now “because it can’t just be us old ’uns fighting the fight”. When she comes home there will be more women to protect, more fights to fight. “It never ends!” she says cheerfully. Where are the lesbian heroes? Here is the lesbian hero.
She's stuck to her guns throughout. Before all the gender nonsense I think it's fair to say that she was seen as something of a fringe figure on the radical feminist left. An unapologetic Andrea-Dworkin-quoting lesbian? Hmm, not so sure about that. Now though…well, the article comments are full of praise…brave, principled, a hero. The times have caught up with her.
n influence will extend to the provision of monumental heroic statues, in the style of those glorifying the Great Leader and Dear Leader prevalent in North Korea. Putin and Kim Jong-un, maybe…or, even better, Putin and Trump. Together, in gold leaf, from the famed Mansudae Arts Studio – provider of monumental statues to dictators across Africa – towering over the sea-front at Mariupol. Trump would be delighted: it might even give him ideas for home. A massive golden Donald to replace the Washington Monument….
surgery.
In any case, while I’ll never back down on saying sex matters more than gender identity, I’m mostly out of the gender wars now. I certainly did my time in the trenches. And I also gladly renounce the title “Professor”; I’m a former professor at most. In truth, no academic title means much to me anymore, such is my disgust for my former profession. Really, I’m a civilian now, with nobody looking over my shoulder. “He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight”, is another Sun Tzu aphorism. And I really hope my former employer gets the hint.
Also, "revenge is a dish best served cold".
Meanwhile, in Germany:
A trans-identified male in Giessen, Germany, has been sentenced to 10 months probation after repeatedly exposing his genitals in public, soliciting migrant children for sexual abuse, and spraying them with his urine. During the hearing, the public prosecutor assigned to his case argued that the crimes were simply an attempt by the man to “affirm her femininity,” to which the judge agreed.
mploying private security guards to ensure her personal safety while she was on the university premises.
Disgracefully, the university did little, or nothing, to protect or defend their own staff member from the abuse. Eventually, the threats forced Stock to resign.
Encouragingly, the Education Secretary has voiced her support for the OfS’s decision. Bridget Phillipson said that academic freedom and free speech were ‘non negotiable’, that the government had taken powers to enforce such principles, and that ‘robust action’ would be taken against all those who did not uphold these standards. It’s about time.
A poster on the wall spotted by a woman at an NHS breast screening yesterday pic.twitter.com/pgp0asHL5P
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BREAKING: Sussex university faces record £585,000 fine for failing to uphold free speech and academic freedom.
OfS found its on “trans and non-binary equality” created a “chilling effect” on campus. pic.twitter.com/Q5Azjux6cO
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From the Times:
The University of Sussex has been fined a record £585,000 over allegations that it failed to uphold free speech and academic freedom.
The inquiry conducted by the Office for Students (OfS) was in part prompted by the case of Kathleen Stock, a philosophy professor, who was accused of transphobia for her views on sex and gender issues.
Stock was forced out of the university in 2021 after a three-year campaign of bullying and character assassination….
Stock had been at the centre of a row on gender identification and transgender rights and claimed there was a “toxic” environment at the university. After she was appointed OBE in 2021, several hundred philosopher academics signed a letter of protest accusing her of using her status to “further gender oppression”.
I wonder how all those brave philosopher academics are feeling now. Using her status to “further gender oppression”, ffs.
The hounding-out of Kathleen Stock was a disgraceful witch-hunt, which happened with, at the very least, the acquiesence of the Sussex authorities. They deserve to be called out.
Added: Sussex in 2021.
TRA protest @SussexUni open day today. About 100 of them, some in quasi military look – black hoodie with assault rifle motif. Not sure I'd want to send my child there seeing this. #istandwithkathleenstock pic.twitter.com/n7xwDEGrG7
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Saratoga Springs, N.Y., ca. 1904. "Veranda of United States Hotel, Broadway at Division Street."
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simple sex test. No, a nurse dealing with a huge paedophile should not be racially abused and reported because she wouldn’t use the “right” pronouns.
I don’t expect any apologies for losing work and “friendships” for arguing that biology is real. But there are many, many good folks who refuse to be airbrushed out of history. They stood up when it mattered.
Suzanne Moore herself was an early victim: hounded out of the Guardian for her gender-critical views.