An excellent article on the problems inherent in gender self-identity and a petition to have the author silenced and reprimanded

Good - that letter is a relief.

The ATL and NUT merge on the 1 September 2017 and will have a new name. Perhaps that is why the NUT have put out their statement now.

Sunkisses that letter gives me a glimmer of hope. Not everyone has drunk the koolaid.

Great joint letter from trade union figures published today in response to all the attempts to silence: morningstaronline.co.uk/a-a9ef-Open-letter-we-are-appalled-at-the-attacks-on-Kiri-Tunks#.WZRRvneGNfI

Thanks - no, I'm sure that's ok.

I'm boggled by the nut. Now they've merged with alt, do all alt agree? What was their previous stance, does anyone know?

I find this chilling also regarding the charity that the government are promoting that seems to be also part by trans activists. I can't remember it's name but it was promoting diversity. It was mostly good but heavy on the trans being the 'ultimate truth'.

Ekphrasis
I just flagged it with my usual email, Didnt even occur to me to create a new one coz that is the one I usually use. Can't imagine 38 degrees would send me anything abusive... Oh well... its done now.

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It's absurd and chilling that the words men and women have no definition either legally or linguistically.

'If you can make people think men are women, you can convince them of anything'

Ekphrasis

I had already seen the video of that child. It's all kinds of wrong.

They have been sexualised in my opinion.

Thanks for posting I tweeted kiri directly with support.

"We believe that trans women are women and trans men are men."

'We believe the words "women" and "men" don't mean anything at all'

Is it best to create a new email to flag?

"We believe that trans women are women and trans men are men." - nut statement.

This always puzzles me as simply as part of basic communication of what you want to say, you must refer to a trans person as trans. So why can't they be trans people and own it proudly? Just as a woman can be proudly masculine and a man proudly feminine (although, that's the real issue).

This stuff make my brain hurt!

As a teacher I will report this (when I've work out how to!)

The lactavita (sp?) drag child was especially chilling. Excellent article datun. It's so true that being a teen is so normally tough, anyone a bit on the side lines will be easily swept up by trans activists. It's a shame as it seems so muddly now. I was blithely happily into boy stuff and dressing like a boy while still knowing I was a girl. Now I think I'd be both teased and worried and coaxed into something I'm not. Or feeling like I 'should' be something I was not.

I flagged this yesterday too. I am increasingly angry about the silencing of discussion in this area. Shutting down sensible debate with accusations of prejudice is not solving anything, it is, in fact making the problem worse as frustration breeds anger.

This is a very disturbing article. About the nature of how cults are run and how they recruit people.

I'm sceptical about all sorts of things, but so many assertions in this ring true.

transanityca.wordpress.com/2017/08/13/synanon-the-brainwashing-game-and-modern-transgender-activism-the-orwellian-implications-of-transgender-politics-by-jenn-smith/comment-page-1/#comment-1

Just wrote to 38 Degrees, urging them to take it down. I am a teacher too, and an aunt to a young trans man, and the 'call-out' culture is doing so much damage here.

I've flagged it. That article is about women's rights essentially, it talks about the impact trans rights have on women and the idea that these people want her to loose her position in the NUT for talking about women's rights is pretty sickening and scary. Its completely erasing women's opinion and women's voice, they do not matter one jot in this debate (of course we already knew that)

I've flagged it. As a teacher, I'm truly terrified by the NUTs statement. I hope the NASUWT doesn't follow suit, although I suspect there will be something similar issued shortly.

Flagged petition.I think the article makes excellent points that can be raised in letters to Mps

I have flagged the petition too, and have written to 38 degrees to say the article as neither 'transphobic' or 'inaccurate', and is a personal witch hunt, attempting to destroy someone's career. It was a very well reasoned and reasonable discussion of the potential impacts of gender ID reform on women, as a biological sex. These are legitimate and important issues to raise. If there is going to be a 'consultation' in the Autumn, then all sides need to be heard and all the issues discussed and debated. I too am sick of authoritarian policing of debate, and silencing of women.

Thanks

Scroll to the bottom and there is tiny grey flag between two other icons in the bottom right hand corner.

Exvuse my ignorance but how do you flag it?

I'll go and flag it too.

I notice only 156 people have signed the campaign, I wonder how many people have flagged it? I'm tempted to create 155 new email addresses - would they take it down if more people complained about it than supported it? (probably not, as we know from the removal of the campaign to ask the government to think a bit more deeply about legislating gender identity laws; 38 degrees is anti woman and pro trans being able to do whatever they want).

I've flagged it.

"Scientists and biologists" what crap. No citations, no quotes, just nonsense.

Her article was pretty eloquent and logical unlike their reasons for the petition.

No, not really. Not when there is an interesting parallel between the number of women sacrificed on the altar of gender, and the number of female deaths each year at the hands of men- considerably more than the number of trans deaths everyone is talking about.

Women are being erased and of black humour gets the point across, so be it.