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Nothing at all to do with the workplace. None of it is relevant to people going to work to earn their living. Hope they get closed down and all the non job people pushing this bilge let go

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What a load of old bollocks.

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11/10 for brevity :-D

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You two have set off a chain of much-needed giggles! Thanks ever so xxxx

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Haha ! Born in the wrong body is so much like contemplating one’s navel for a long time .

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"Pronouns in the e-mail signature". My CV doesn't even have my full name on it, because I discovered very quickly that E. J. Weir gets way more interviews and better offers than Ms. Emily Weir does. Hell, it's why J. K. Rowling is so called, publishers recommended she hide the fact she was a woman in order to sell more books. I'm not about to put "she/her" in my correspondence for the same reason.

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You probably know that orchestras now tend to audition new members playing behind screens, or men will be judged better than women. And "Old Masters" are rated better paintings than when the raters know the paintings are by women. Long live E.J.Weir

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Many thanks KFP.

"Being male or female was compared to a dimmer switch."

The irony of this training making the incurious dim and dimmer!

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And presumably they're implying that being a woman is like having the lights fully switched off, while being a man is like having the lights fully switched on!

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I’ve never read such a load of bollocks in my life and I’ve read some shite ( not by KFP Obviously )

I’ll just change one sentence

“Participants were told that trans people are more likely to be the victim of a violent crime “

To

“ participants should be told that trans people are more likely to be the perpetrator of a violent crime “

There fixed it

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"non-binary people consider themselves transgender as they were not assigned non-binary at birth".

Bwahahahaha!

Surely this is the ideology jumping the shark.

Surely they've plumbed the depth of bonkers here.

They're so making it all up as they go along -- imagine the trauma of "not being assigned non-binary at birth"!

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There was also a point where the Mermaids Trainer did not know how to correctly pronounce a particular neopronoun.

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That's incredible. Reminds me of an international socialist Zoom meeting and one Canadian neoliberal showed up with the pronouns in his name, and the Indian host introduced him as "Ben He Him". Which, to be fair, does sort of sound like a name!

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Ben Her!

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LOLOLOLOL!

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Dear Emily, you provoked the loudest laugh I've had yet today!!

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no doubt the only sane moment in this travesty of bonkersness

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Of course, they've been making it up for years, but there's something about this grasping at the smoke and fog of 'non-binary gender' that really illustrates the desperation of mediocrity to be acknowledged.

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Yes, that bit is priceless. Where a kind of mad logic doubles back on itself because reality left the scene long ago, and it's all just words.... I think it was Kathleen Stock who said recently that you have be really well educated to get so stupid.

Has indoctrination in gender identity completely replaced biology in schools?

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I agree with the observation about the capacity for some educated people to be really really really stupid. I laughed at a meme I saw the other day -- a photo of Judith Butler with the caption 'a stupid person's idea of a smart person'. A educated person, lacking wisdom, can get utterly lost in dark labyrinths of verbiage. They think they're bravely looking out onto new unexplored horizons -- but really -- they're only staring up their own bum holes. Self-reflexive twits.

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I heard Judith Butler speaking about gender in an interview some years ago -- before I was aware of the gender wars -- and she was very plausible: but it was also a bit disturbing because I found myself going along with ideas I really didn't believe, but the way she'd got there made it very hard to disagree or figure out why they seemed right-but-wrong. She seems to have this confounding effect on a lot of people: it's probably necessary to read her books to be able to pick the text apart and identify what she's doing & how she's doing it. But have so far avoided reading them!

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I would recommend Capital Culture by Linda McDowell. Also, Glinner's interview with Helen Brunskill-Evans.

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Thank you. Will have a look at both

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Omigod, Kathleen Stock has explained my M.D. sister and her chemical engineer son to me!

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And just imagine the trauma of being “ misgendered” .. worse than being raped!

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I'm reeling at the sheer cheek of 'we have to be really, really careful scheduling events in case the gender critical movement... turn up and protest'. The DARVO! We don't protest their events, they protest ours, bringing their swinging fists, screaming, bullying and intimidation along with them.

In other news, the notion that trans people's 'poor mental health' is CAUSED by people using the wrong names and pronouns, to the point of claiming these things make people commit suicide (the implication of those self-harm reduction 'statistics') is ... I don't have a word suitable for this. Blamey-victim-complex-indulging-paranoia.

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Yes the screamingly high DARVO level is pretty outrageous. I wonder who they think they're kidding? Maybe sheer repetition of these lies hypnotises them into a state where hyperbole becomes reality: where the remote possibility that these defamatory accusations COULD materialise is ample justification for making them.

Cannot remember which of the cult mind control experts labelled this "phobia indoctrination": projecting their own hateful and aggressive behaviours onto the enemy (us) as a way to justify it as "self-defence".

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Very telling that they use a dimmer switch to illustrate the fallacies of hormone imbalance. A dimmer switch is controlled by an outside force.

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Their latest more sciencey-sounding version of the Genderbread "spectrum" on Twitter is that sex is "bimodal'. But apparently without much clue of what a bimodal distribution actually looks like, or how to read a graph. Eg a bimodal distribution of the attribute Height across both sexes is a couple of overlapping bell curves. But the bit in the middle where short men overlap tall women doesn't mean that any of them change sex. Only that each might be able to "pass" a bit more easily as the other, with respect to height alone.

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What an excellent point!

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Ooo, well spotted

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It's a rubbish analogy, too, because an electric light is either off or on. It is binary. The dimmer switch makes no difference to the 'on-ness'.

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Excellent work KFP! Fingers crossed for your Twitter re-instatement -- there's still an obvious coterie of cult-captured 'moderators' running the show. Would love to have mine back too.

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Thank you so much.

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Charlatans. Lie spreaders. Champions of mis-information and skewed statistics. Where are all these trans suicides and how do the stats compare to the population as a whole? MT got everything in there - black lives matter, the (much discredited) WHO, colonialism, a transphobic media (never mind that the “correct” pronoun in terms of trans rapists always being used - her penis - always applied). Is preaching to mentally ill children can expect daily “hurt”, (choose to be offended) suicide your ultimate lot in life, probably homelessness, ostracism from family and society, that “sex assigned at birth”, a made up and irrelevant term, is a thing, that cross sex hormones are harmless (they’re not) and bodily mutilation will fix their mental health issues, is all of that a positive approach to helping troubled kids? MT is an indoctrinated idiot. And BTW - landlords in Scotland cannot evict anyone from their rentals, even if the tenant doesn’t pay the rent. Another of Sturgeon’s mad policies. Companies need to stop giving oxygen to these liars.

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That example of discrimination was a bare-faced lie. 'Hike up the rent so you can't afford it'. Ahem, there are laws about when and how much you can increase rent, and then, 'we've been seeing that more and more'. REALLY. As if they have homeless trans people being forced out by landlords every day. If there was one case we would never be allowed to forget it.

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It's miraculous how this movement twists or reverses everything - not got the job you want? Not passed the exams or got the grades you want? Not living where you want? Not got the promotion you know you deserve? Someone doesn't want to date you? Something, anything has happened that you haven't entirely controlled? Anything you dream hasn't manifested? Someone disagreed or looked at you wrong? You're not hugely wealthy? Someone forgot to indulge you? That's traumatic anti-trans discrimination of course. It's totally bonkers. It's very hard to understand how this totally selfish and narcissistic way of thinking is still being rolled out and embedded in policies as some kind of necessary 'training' and quality standard.

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MT is quite clearly a liar, the misinformation and downright crap spewing on this "train" is disgraceful, doesn't seem to have given any figures to back up the spurious claims at all. Mermaids is incapable of educating, embracing or empowering as its lost is the fog of insanity. It should be nowhere near education, not one trans organisation should ever be given any access to kids ever. Non binary is buillshit as the late great magdalene berns said, body parts for biological sex?? Wtaf us going on in these poisonous noddy heads. They are not allowed to dictate language to anyone when they clearly have no understanding of it in the first place. Distressing to live in the wrong body? The feelings have nothing to do with reality and they should be thankful they have a healthy body to start with before they destroy it with drugs and mutilation. I am not and will not use pronouns, it is ridiculous in its entirety. There is no one in this world whose body isn't binary, even people with dsd are still part of the binary. The ludicrous overreach of this pernicious cult is disgusting and they now must be shut down and defunded immediately, rant over. Thanks KFP hope you and Fraserreal get your twitter spaces back asap

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I know there are decent trans people just like other decent people with mental health problems, but I can’t look at them without thinking of the cult that encourages this insanity. I get very angry that this is going on and the Pride community accepts this!

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Pride = TQ+

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Many lesbians and gay men are now completely rejecting the T: its delusions, its homophobia, its misogyny, its medical abuse of children, particularly "transing the gay away" in autistic kids. They are thoroughly sick of being associated in any way with the T they have never had anything in common with, beyond being exploited by it. They disown Pride completely to takeover by corporate interests and a pink or purple haired exhibitionist baying mob. So far as they are concerned, there is no "Pride community" any more but a bunch of weirdos and sexual fetishists including pedophiles pushing for legal licence to rape children, and brainwashed kids -- a world gone crazy. They are doing all they can to wake up gays or lesbians who still don't see that solidarity with this very aggressive men's rights movement is WRONG, morally wrong.

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Thank goodness I am retired - I’ve worked in the civil service and local government so could easily have suffered one of these training sessions. I like to think that my feedback to the trainer and my employer after such a session would be that the training session made me feel unsafe, that I find the term cisgender offensive, that displaying the LGBT flag makes me feel unsafe as it is a political symbol and only reflects one viewpoint, and if they change to gender neutral toilets to make trans more comfortable they should provide single sex toilets so I can feel comfortable too.

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I’d have been well sacked if I still worked for local govt , I have a physical disability to not being able to keep my gob shut

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Oh, we need a support group for women with BIG MOUTHS!

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It was exactly how I imagined and expected it to be. I wonder how many employees are being forced to endure this nonsense. It’s like the year 5’s have taken over the training. It’s all down to Stonewall of course. They are at the root of all of this, and the sooner they are defunded the better. Mermaids are just one their ‘branches’.

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They need to be exposed! Thanks for this post , which I couldn’t read in detail , because of my previous experience in a totalitarian country. Reading most of it made me physically I’ll!

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I couldn’t read much about Pearl moon as I knew I would cry

This shite just makes me mad

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Thanks for this KFP, one of the more utterly frustrating pieces on the substack knowing that most of the training points are total nonsense.

As I was reading I imagined myself at the session speaking up and correcting the trainer. It would be career suicide I suppose (and besides, I was always told to shut up at work; One of the many reasons I now enjoy being self employed)

Hope you're still appealing to Twitter to be reinstated, I remember Helen Staniland saying she appealed every day when she was barred. Hurry back, you and your ascerbic wit are missed 🙂

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If you are in a position to do so, could you please bring this piece to the attention of @_QueenMeabh, @WingsScotland, @StandingLocal ?

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I’ve banned myself from wings but I’ll bring it to the attention of stu

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The wings contact form is broken but you can get in touch with him via twatter

I don’t do it so can’t provide a link ,sorry

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I’d be booted out within minutes

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That's why I liked working in NYC; the bosses tiptoed around me, terrified they might offend ME.

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Clearly evil

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