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Mar 26 • 9 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Short thread: Loads of commentary on OfS fining Sussex £585k. I woke with a beaming smile this morning.

But, let's take a quick look at Prof Roseneil's comments.
archive.is/2025.03.25-190…
I suspect Prof Roseneil made these comments in haste and quite likely without having consulted a decent legal team who may be aware of the 20+ ET wins. She said: Image
"Free speech absolutism". Hmmm. I have only ever heard that used by people who do not believe that we ought to a distinction between LAWFUL and UNLAWFUL speech (not shouting, emphasising).

She is accusing the regulator of taking an unlawful position.
"Regulator refused to speech to us".

And, what is the problem. The complaint was made. Evidence gathered and provided. Why did the OfS need to speak to new VC? Why does new VC think that she ought to have been at that table? Strange position to take.
Sussex University defended @DocStock's right to academic freedom?

So, no one stopped her doing her research, even if she was warned off coming into work because her employer could not ensure her safety.

What a ridiculous position to take given what DocStock had to endure.
Ruling makes it "virtually impossible to prevent abuse, harassment etc etc"

I nearly pee'ed myself laughing when I read this!

Sussex got into the shite because they FAILED to protect DocStock. So who is a free speech absolutist now?
I suspect that Prof Roseneil made these tone deaf and contradictory comments in haste and without actually speaking to a legal team who knows about the nearly 20 ET GC cases of harassment and discrimination - or indeed the one most relevant.... my own.
She could have taken a position of institutional neutrality. After all, it didn't happen on *her* watch.
If I was marking Univesity of Sussex's response, I would give it the following, with a strong wording that failure to acknowledge what happened might well, in itself, be seen as chilling, even further, the academic culture at Sussex

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Mar 25
Apologies something glitches with last thread.

Once again

Remember: the TW prison population in England and Wales contains a massively disproportionately high number of sex offenders.

Fact.

The question is why?

I think we have a category problem.
Either they represent the wider transgender population or they do not.

Both cannot be true.

We have not been able to research this question because we are accused of being transphobic when we raise the spectre of trans sex offenders.

But we can speculate.
Here is my speculation

1. Gender identity does not override sex based patterns of offending. We have a decent amount of evidence to support this idea.

2. The trans prisoner population is not representative of the wider transgender population but represents a tiny subset.
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Jan 2
Thread on child sexual exploitation and 'grooming gangs'.

I have long since maintained that where girls and sexual violence through prostitution is concerned state and non-state agencies either turned a blind eye or worse still criminalised the victims.
For me, it is very important to remember that child sexual exploitation is not something disconnected from prostitution. We call it CSE and grooming gangs but in substance, form, effect it is no different than the violent prostitution of highly vulnerable females except these females are under the age of 18.
I will use the word prostitution. The children being abused & exploited are caught up in a specific social and economic social institution (called prostitution).

Just because I use the word prostitution does not mean that I think these children have a choice.
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Jan 1
A thread about femicide - apologies for it being broken up but I need to include links and evidence.

@FemicideCensus @K_IngalaSmith and Guardian published the names and details of adult victims of femicide in 2024 here:

theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-int…

It is sobering reading and will not include all female victims so the number of 80 is likely to grow meaning that in the end it is likely to be more deaths in fewer days (now, 1 female is murdered by a male every 3 days in UK).
What stood out for me was the age profile. Far more much older women than I thought. So, I did a little digging around.

I went to the homicide Index (you can find it here):

ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…
It provides all homicides from the last decade or so broken down by sex and age. The notes for the data *must* be read as they include some years where there is a blip (see for instance the increased numbers of young women being murdered the year of the Manchester Arena bombing).
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Dec 31, 2024
This thread is for @sally_hines. It deals with a few matters of *fact* where prisons are concerned. Sally is quick to counter facts about male violence with a couple of well-worn sexist troupes.

When we talk about the risk of sexual violence posed to female prisoners when we place trans identifying males in a female prison estate, the response comes in one of two forms:

1. Why aren't we talking about the hideousness of sexual violence in prison rather than drawing on transphobic stereotype of a trans woman is a sexual predator?

2. Sexual violence is a huge problem in prisons, especially male prisons and such violence is one of the reasons trans identifying male people need to be placed in the female estate.

So, let's look at the evidence and what it says.
Some facts about the trans prisoner population drawn from a Parliamentary Question answered on 23rd December 2024:

Of the 245 transgender prisoners on 31st March 2024 (census date) whose sex at birth is male, 151 committed one or more contact or noncontact sexual offences. That is 62% of the male transgender identifying population.

The comparison population is *not* transgender people in general, but males in prison. The percentage of males in prison who committed one or more sexual offences (contact and non contact) is closer to 18% - and has remained steady for several years.
So, fact no. 1: in comparison to other males, there is a disproportionately higher number of trans identifying males in our prisons in England and Wales for sex offence. There is evidence to support the statement that males who identify as trans and are in prison are disproportionately likely to be sexual predators.

Fact no. 2: in comparison to females (where the percentage of women in prison for sexual offences is rarely more than 4%), there is a staggeringly high disproportionate number of trans identifying males who have committed sexual offences.
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Dec 13, 2024
THREAD: In a rare moment, I am going to defend @sally_hines, even if only obliquely.

1/ There has been criticism of Sally getting these grants.

I do not agree with many of the criticisms because they misunderstand the mechanics of financial accountability re ESRC grants. The money goes to the university. Some universities top slice a bit and give them to the researcher in a research account that can only be spent on research activities. The bulk of the grant though is administered according to quite strict rules.Image
2/ Every university likes its Profs to get grants - hence Sally will often have a pop at me for not having grants. That's fine. Personally I have never thought that the ability to get grants measures the worth of an academic. And, for some us of, the research we do does not require a lot of money. The work I do does not, at the moment, require grant income.
3/ Grant applications are peer reviewed, just like articles in journals and books. So, Sally's grants will have been peer reviewed by other academics who have expertise in the area - which is right and proper. I would not want someone with no expertise in sex, crime and justice peer reviewing my grant proposals for instance.

But, we can question peer review - cf especially Sokal Hoax.
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Oct 1, 2024
NEWSFLASH

The Open University has today published the report it commissioned following my tribunal.



@SexMattersOrg @akuareindorf @MForstater @WomensRightsNet @ProfAliceS @AFAF_freespeech @EdinUniAFAF @ComAcFreedom @bindelj ounews.co/around-ou/univ…
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Let's remember back a year ago, when on the morning of the tribunal they published this:



Note para stating that they "will be at forefront of where discussion goes next" wonkhe.com/blogs/balancin…
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Turns out they were but for the wrong reasons.

The ET Judgment found many things but mostly a gender affirmative culture in which gender affirmative staff were putting pressure on OU to discriminate against a research network, in which my former department breached academic ...
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