So many TRAs so keen to point out that the #MayaForstater case doesn’t permit transphobic harassment at work. The point is Maya never did harass anyone. Nor did any of the other women who have been publicly vilified. They just believed humans couldn’t change sex but this 1/ was deemed to make others “unsafe”. Women were told that their mere presence on campus was a threat to trans students. Nobody has been able to supply even a hint of evidence of discrimination or bullying. No GC person has advocated for bullying in the workplace. Maya’s 2/

One thing I’ve increasingly realised about academic feminism is that if you state the issues and problems in plain language (and even suggest solutions), people label you a TERF or say that you’re stuck in the past. What they value is obscuring the issues, “queering” the 1/ understanding, finding multiple ways of actually undermining the core argument. It can’t be as simple as the fact that women are discriminated against across all cultures and nationalities and races. No, it must be something else, ideally something that we can blame some of 2/

The author of the tweet is using example of fascism/racism as evidence that we don’t ‘debate’ everything. That’s a bad analogy. Even racism has been subject to plenty of debate in the past and there is clear evidence that it’s foundations aren’t solid + causes harm. With this, 1/

https://twitter.com/anonacademic_uk/status/1519982408434659330

the subject in question is whether observable facts like the existence of biology can even be acknowledged. It’s neutral to say someone is male or female - by saying you are male I am not saying you are inferior. Additionally, it has never been debated because circa 7 years 2/