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Another bumper edition, bursting at the seams with good stuff from the gender beat!

Lord Phil Takes Sussex Uni To Task

Labour Peer, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (or Lord Phil of Brum as he’s known on Twitter), posed a parliamentary question in the House of Lords about the ‘terrible treatment of Professor Kathleen Stock at Sussex University’.

Philip Hunt @LordPhilofBrum

I have an oral question tomorrow @UKHouseofLords on the terrible treatment of Professor Kathleen Stock @Docstockk at Sussex University @LabourLordsUK

suzanne moore @suzanne_moore

So many women have been harassed and threatened by so-called trans rights activists and felt so alone and distressed that to see the fightback finally coming is great Please note I always make a distinction between trans rights activists and trans people. Not the same at all.

“Other academics in many other universities are facing similar abuse, particularly women, for basically gender critical views... However much legislation you have, you need to have confidence in our universities to show some strength in defending their academics.”

🦖 LabourWomen’sDeclaration 🦖 @LabWomenDec

Breaking news: Government agrees to @LordPhilofBrum's request for an investigation into the circumstances of the resignation of Professor Kathleen Stock @Docstockk from her post at University of Sussex #IStandWithKathleenStock

youtu.beLabour Peer Philip Hunt asking about resignation of Prof Kathleen Stock, and answers from government*Lord Hunt of Kings Heath asks Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have, if any, to ask the Office for Students to undertake an investigation into the c...

Thanks to his intervention, The Office for Students, the student watchdog, is to open an investigation. It will look into whether The University of Sussex met its ‘obligations on academic freedom and freedom of speech’.

Philip Hunt @LordPhilofBrum

Rreport on my oral pq yesterday @UKHouseofLords @LabWomenDec @LabourLordsUK

thetimes.co.ukSussex University inquiry after trans rowThe student watchdog is investigating Sussex University after the resignation of an academic at the centre of a transgender row.The Office for Students will look into whether the institution met its “obligations on academic freedom and freedom of speech”, parliament was told.Kathleen Stock, a profes

And Speaking Of Professor Stock

There was a great interview with Janice Turner in The Times.

The Times @thetimes

Philosophy professor Kathleen Stock’s views on the gender debate turned her into a hate figure at Sussex University. After three years of death threats and online abuse, the polarising academic resigned three weeks ago. She talks to @VictoriaPeckham

thetimes.co.ukProfessor Kathleen Stock and the toxic gender debateTwo weeks after Professor Kathleen Stock resigned, she is yet to empty her faculty office, a task she dreads. The last time she walked through the underpass to

“My bête noire is middle-class academics sitting around making decisions that impact on women in prison.”

Inns Of Court Host Historic Debate

Despite the best efforts of some anonymous barristers to prevent her from attending, Naomi Cunningham was part of the panel at Middle Temple’s inaugral LGBTQ+ forum and took part in the debate about conversion therapy legislation.

David Scullion @DavidScullion

Stonewall finally sit down to debate GC feminists

thecritic.co.ukStonewall finally accept debate | Maya Forstater | The Critic MagazineMiddle Temple made history with its LGBTQ+ forum

Naomi Cunningham is the Chair of Sex Matters and a regular contributor to The Legal Feminist website. You can read the text of her excellent talk here.

Legal Feminist @legalfeminist

The text of Naomi Cunningham's talk at the @LgtbqForum Inaugural Dinner last night. legalfeminist.org.uk/2021/11/17/con….

This is your brain on Queer theory

Allyn ‘they/them’ Walker, the university professor who wrote a book arguing to destigmatise paedophilia, has been placed ‘on leave’ by ‘their’ employer.

Old Dominion University initially refused to take any action but had a rethink after an online petition calling for Walker’s removal garnered over 4000 signatures. Walker has been placed on ‘administrative leave’.

Natalia Antonova ❤️‍🔥 @NataliaAntonova

This is from Allyn Walker’s publicly available PhD thesis. I struggle to understand how anyone can present viewing child abuse material as just a coping strategy that is not, itself, an offense. Some of you have gone a little too far in your “all stigmas are bad” nonsense.

Sex Is Good For Your Health Service

The NHS is developing Unified Information Standards which will have an impact on the collation of data relating to sex and gender identity.

FairPlayForWomen @fairplaywomen

GOOD NEWS THREAD: We recently reported in how the NHS collects information on sex and gender identity. Sex was being erased from NHS datasets /1

fairplayforwomen.comHow does the NHS record information about sex and gender identity? • Fair Play For WomenWe all know sex matters in the health care so why has the NHS prioritised the collection of data on gender identity over sex?

Fair Play For Women has been able to ascertain that the NHS report recommends to ministers that sex at birth should be recorded. Furthermore, stakeholder engagement will involve groups that hold gender-critical views.

Nancy Kelley exposed by Woman’s Hour

Emma Barnett interviewed Nancy Kelley, Stonewall CEO, and took her ‘arguments’ apart with forensic precision. If you haven’t heard it, treat yourself!

BBC Woman's Hour @BBCWomansHour

Listen now: Stonewall CEO Nancy Kelley gives her first interview since the BBC became the latest organisation to pull out of its diversity scheme - citing concerns about perceptions of impartiality regarding transgender rights and women's rights: bbc.in/3qOPnnS

“Beliefs are not the same as facts.”

Mum’s The Word

Stonewall has said that it will no longer reward employers for replacing the word ‘mother’ with gender-neutral terms.

Lucy Bannerman @TimesLucy

Excl: Stonewall has dropped its guidance advising groups to remove the word “mother” from their policies. It denied there ever was such a policy. Plenty FOI docs prove otherwise.

thetimes.co.ukStonewall agrees that mother knows bestStonewall has dropped guidance advising groups on its workplace schemes to remove the word “mother” from their policies. The lobby group said that it would no

“The lobby group is under mounting pressure after hundreds of freedom of information documents showed that its schemes encouraged organisations to rewrite their policies in return for points on the workplace equality index, which claims to rank the country’s most LGBT-friendly employers.”

The ferret has been thrown into reverse.

Self-Owen Jones

Talcum outdoes himself. (From last month but too good not to share.)

And Finally…

Slarty Bartfast @DatCatDer