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Cancelling thought.

It is not just about celebrities and twitter storms, it is about fear in organisations.

It is about a bid to cancel the publication of a peer-reviewed paper about women's rights ...

thetimes.co.uk/edition/scotla… @mbmpolicy
... because it uses the word women to mean female.
The extraordinary courage needed to write and publish a careful academic paper on policy capture

(💐💐💐@LucyHunterB @kathmurray1 @lnmackenzie1 @mbmpolicy )

research.ed.ac.uk/portal/files/1…
And.... If a new hate crime law is passed in Scotland it will allow people who want to shut down talk of women's rights to invoke fear of legal challenge.

mbmpolicy.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/mbm-ha…
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Do you remember those magic eye pictures?

You had to work quite hard to learn to see them, and keep concentrating in the right way to hold the focus. Relax and they go flat.

I think people who have taught themselves not to notice someone's sex are doing this.
Maybe they trained themself for a particular loved one or friend (and have been told that if they don't keep seeing in the new way something awful will happen).

Or maybe they just practiced until they could do it, because (like the magic eye pictures) it was the cool thing
But we wouldn't print books or roadsigns using difficult stereograms, we use the ordinary way of seeing & reading flat printed images - because it is safer & more reliable.

And because concentrating on maintaining this way of seeing takes concentration from other things
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This, in the House of Commons Library Briefing is shocking.

"Legal commentators have expressed concern" ...

That the Equality Act is being interpreted as allowing males to be simply excluded from group counselling for female victims of sexual assault

commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief…
They think women who have been traumatised by male violence should have their boundaries pushed before they can get help.

They think the professionals meant to help them should be forced to first ask them if they could be inclusive of a vulnerable male ...
How on earth did this get written and signed off? (by how many people?) Who are these legal commentators?

That part of the briefing is written by @dougpyper - he is a researcher with knowledge of employment law.

He turned to Blackstone's Guide to the Equality Act
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There is a lot of "manufacturing of consent" in @YouGov 's presentation of the data on their recent survey.

First there is the title "trangender rights"

The whole point is there is a public debate about whether these are rights and/ or should be rights.
Secondly is the colour coding. Green and pink are not just agree/disagree answers to the questions as they are asked.

For example here is the question as it was asked.
And here is the question as presented in the graphic.

Green means more people said should not have to obtain doctors certificate

Pink means more people said should have to.

There is no reason for this other than to use the colour coding to signal the "right" answer
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