UK universities have failed to protect gender-critical academics, report finds
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Report’s author raises ‘stark concerns about barriers to academic freedom’

UK universities have failed to protect gender-critical academics from bullying and career-threatening restrictions on their research

Researchers investigating vital issues have been subjected to sustained campaigns of intimidation simply for acknowledging the biological and social importance of sex.

My favourite tidbit however is this:

The latest report’s call for evidence received 140 responses, the majority from people agreeing with gender-critical views – defined as a belief that biological sex is unchanging and should not be conflated with gender.

It’s the “gender-critical” fucks that conflate sex with gender! That’s the whole point, they claim gender and sex is the same thing so you can’t change your gender cause you can’t change your chomosomes, etc.

It’s so incredibly dishonest to read “biological sex is unchanging and should not be conflated with gender” as support for gender critical views, I’m honestly speechless.

(Edit) I think what it really does is retconning the recent court ruling, as if it was always obvious that legal protections for women only apply to people who menstruate, and if trans women thought those protections apply to them it’s because they thought they can menstruate. It’s retrospectively saying, “it was never even debated whether those laws should consider sex or gender, it was always clear those laws are about biological sex and people who thought otherwise were conflating sex with gender”.

  • Are_Euclidding_Me [e/em/eir]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I don’t like calling it a spectrum for the simple reason that it’s not clear to me that there’s always a sensible way to say someone is “more female” or “more male” than someone else.

    Like, if someone is born with a penis and ovaries, are they closer to the “male” side of the spectrum or the “female” side? How do they compare to someone born with a vulva and testicles? Which of these people is more male? Which more female? Do we give primacy to what we can see outside the body (the genitals) or to the gonads, which we can’t see, but are much more important to gamete production than genitals?

    I know these hypotheticals are rare, it’s extremely, extremely rare to be born with a penis and ovaries, or a vulva and testicles. But it is possible, and I just don’t see how we can reasonably say which is “more male” or “more female”.