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The Cis Child

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Terfulike · 11/06/2018 08:00

www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ssehs/research/centrefordoctoraltraining/

I've searched the Web but can't find this phrase used anywhere else. This page came up on the Connecticut sports thread.

What is a cis child do you think?

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53rdWay · 11/06/2018 08:40

I don’t even know how you would define it. Presumably any useful definition of ‘cis’ has to involve being satisfied with your gender role and/or with your sexed body. But this for children would mean being satisfied with a hyper-gendered world (which is just off-the-charts mad for children at the moment), and thrilled about going through puberty. That wouldn’t have been me or most girls I knew growing up.

Back when I was trying my best to buy into this ideology, the line on how you know a child is trans is if their expressed desire to be a different sex is “consistent, persistent and insistent”, so it goes beyond “I’m a boy today!” roleplaying. But even this makes v little sense - so many of us when going through puberty are pretty consistent about feeling horrified and alienated by our own changing bodies and the way society views them. Is self-harm and eating disorders not ‘insistent’? Were we all secretly trans the whole time?

Bowlofbabelfish · 11/06/2018 08:39

If anyone would like to contact the university to ask where the funding comes from, the email address for the Postgraduate Research Administrator is under any of the boxes that expand talking about the projects. I shan’t put her email on here directly as I feel that’s unfair.

Terfulike · 11/06/2018 08:36

Yes I wonder how many studentships there are for women participation. I'm sure it will go down now men are going to be winning everything

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Prawnofthepatriarchy · 11/06/2018 08:26

Pencils, there's evidently a lot of money washing around in transactivism.

PencilsInSpace · 11/06/2018 08:25

LemonJello Grin

PencilsInSpace · 11/06/2018 08:24

to manipulate people into believing that sex doesn’t matter, only feeling do

Yes, that was my impression reading through the project descriptions.

The first playing field
This project will undertake an assessment of attitudes and beliefs towards non-sex-segregated sports participation in schools and at grassroots recreational level. It will examine, via semi-structured interviews with children, parents, and those who deliver sports, the beliefs, barriers, and facilitators to non-sex-segregated participation. Importantly, it will document how challenges to these have been reconciled, identifying good practice, and suggesting ways that educational institutions can help to break down the gender-based myths that influence desire, motivation, ability, and rights to participate.

PencilsInSpace · 11/06/2018 08:21

Shock at that project.

One of the most influential, powerful and visible institutions upholding the gender binary is sport – where participation is predominantly segregated by biological sex, rooted in the widely-held beliefs about fairness and the biological advantages associated with being male. Such beliefs are over-simplistic, legitimise discrimination, and hinder the sports participation of transgender (intersex, trans, non-binary) individuals. With the rapidly growing societal visibility of transgender people, there is an unprecedented need to address areas where discrimination may arise.

The newly formed Gender and Sport Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT), led by Dr Gemma Witcomb in the School of Sport Exercise and Health Sciences (SSEHS), is recruiting five highly motivated PhD students to explore the current and changing landscape of sports participation for transgender adults and children and recommend changes to promote inclusive participation

The project is run by psychologists, even the one that looks at the effects of changing testosterone levels on performance.

Funding for the PhD students alone amounts to £221,655 over 3 years.

PositivelyPERF · 11/06/2018 08:13

The newly formed Gender and Sport Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT)

So a bullshite made up ‘science’ that has been created to manipulate people into believing that sex doesn’t matter, only feeling do. I’ll stick to facts, thanks.

LemonJello · 11/06/2018 08:13

The cis child is full of woe because she identifies into her own oppression?
The child that is called trans today is bonny and blithe and probably gay.

Terfulike · 11/06/2018 08:09

www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ssehs/research/centrefordoctoraltraining/

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PositivelyPERF · 11/06/2018 08:06

Tuck = fuck. My phone is being uptight this morning. 😁

PositivelyPERF · 11/06/2018 08:05

It’s just a child. There is no such thing as cis. It’s just a made up word that TRAs use to label, mainly, women and now they’re trying to indoctrinate children into accepting it, because women have told them to tuck off. They use it because they want to blur the lines between gender feelze and sex.