From gcacademianetwork.org/#:

"My faculty (UK university) suggested turning all toilets into unisex. In a meeting with other managers I asked if they had done an equality impact assessment. I was thinking about ensuring adequate provision for women and people with disability...
...I didn’t even know about GRA debate. Anyway I was shouted down for being transphobic. The loos are now unisex and as I expected the presence of urinals means that women now have fewer toilets than before as they don’t want to walk past men at urinals."
'We have "women and non binary seminars", "women and non binary" study groups. There are no "Men and Non binary" groups, of course. Men are the default and everything else just goes into “other”.'
"I never thought we would be at a place where, if you believe that sex is an axis of oppression, you are systematically excluded from academia. But that is where we are. It's more extreme that I could have imagined before I began...
...my PhD. It really feels like an institutionally sanctioned witch hunt, and the people who are doing it are doing it in the name of being progressive. It's heartbreaking."
Some people may have missed the quotation marks and the link in the first tweet. These testimonies are from a new website, which chronicles the experiences of academics (mainly in the UK) and “erosion of women's sex-based rights”: gcacademianetwork.org/#
Some people may have missed the quotation marks and the link in the first tweet. These testimonies are from a new website, which chronicles the experiences of academics (mainly in the UK) and “erosion of women's sex-based rights”: gcacademianetwork.org/#
Some people may have missed the quotation marks and the link in the first tweet. These testimonies are from a new website, which chronicles the experiences of academics (mainly in the UK) and “erosion of women's sex-based rights”: gcacademianetwork.org/#
Some people may have missed the quotation marks and the link in the first tweet. These testimonies are from a new website, which chronicles the experiences of academics (mainly in the UK) and “erosion of women's sex-based rights”: gcacademianetwork.org/#
Some people may have missed the quotation marks and the link in the first tweet. These testimonies are from a new website, which chronicles the experiences of academics (mainly in the UK) and “erosion of women's sex-based rights”: gcacademianetwork.org/#

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