Reed & Castiglia sound just like the kind of Professors you would want at university, and the axioms and their letter sing.

Its amazing just how surprising and unusual it is now to read grown ups using wit, speaking clearly & standing their ground to defend open conversation
Which makes their final recantation all the more heart-breaking (& I read Jane's thread one-by-one as she posted.... i didn't see the ending coming)

I talk to administrators, shop floor workers, police officers trying to defend themselves against these same totalitarian demands
We don't all have the language and space to express ourselves as the Professors, and the arguments on Twitter are not as elegant, but perhaps we don't have the same crushing incentives to fall back into line.

Or perhaps we do and enough of us refuse to anyway.
It is clear that if this was going to be won on strength of arguments it would have been won already, its the incentives for people in careers and institutions to give in and give up, to say-the-words, and with that to give up their institutions to lumber on as zombies.
Organisations, accountability, laws and rules are the secret sauce of economies. We gut this stuff at our peril.

Can any of these zombie organisations be turned around from the inside, or the outside? Or will they all be replaced?

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19 Nov
The Gender Dissidents Survey Results are here!

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In the summer I asked people to fill in an online survey about why they were concerned about the push to replace sex with gender identity in laws and polices.

More than 700 people completed the survey over the course of a couple of weeks
They were 90 % women, 80% left wing, two-thirds parents, mainly non-religious, almost a quarter LGB

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18 Nov
Stonewall is keen on branding people "bigots" & denying them employment.

I wonder if Nancy also want gender critical civil servants and judges fired?
This is what the independent report on interpreters actually says.

Suggests there is an issue here - belief, tradition, training, language?

Interpreters must be able & willing to do the job

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The report emphasises general training and quality assurance.

Stonewall jumps straight to they are bigots and must be denied employment Image
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17 Nov
Harry Josephine Giles has a point here

Males are excluded from female-only spaces by default

(not just *can be*: the rules exclude them, the question is do they follow the rule or try to break it)

But as Harry says there is a problem because asking "are you the right sex to be in here?" is seen by some people as an invasion of their privacy

So organisations adopt stupid policies like this

Because they are told by @ehrc and @GEOgovuk that it is the right thing to do.

And they are confused and afraid to stand up against their own internal lobbies.

a-question-of-consent.net/2020/05/25/the…
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16 Nov
In case you missed it over the weekend

@sharoncowan22 et al released a paper accusing @mbmpolicy of lack of rigour in the their work on policy capture.

a-question-of-consent.net/2020/11/14/los…
MBM released a paper responding to the accusations

You can read both papers.

Make your self a cup of tea, there is a lot going on.

The important thing is the legal arguments are getting aired - in particular the basis for the 'trans inclusion' argument that males who identify as women have the right to use opposite sex services with women.
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16 Nov
. @ggreenwald on what is going on at the ACLU (and every progressive org, academia & media ...)

The emergence of liberal political activism at the expense of traditional civil liberties.

greenwald.substack.com/p/the-ongoing-…
Its good & think he is right about the broader drivers. But I don't think he has unpacked the inherent censorious of the "trans rights" agenda. Giving ppl the right to force others to pretend they are the opposite sex is incompatible w free speech. Dissent must be punished
He is also missing the ACLU's turn to irrationality, and betrayal of female athletes on women's sports....

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13 Nov
Friday feeling:

@mbmpolicy have just got over half their initial target for funding their work crowdfunder.co.uk/womens-rights-…

These three women are worth every penny

Keep it going!
They are getting analysis into the media
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And heavyweight academic journals

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