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Academics' letter in Guardian

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Velella · 16/10/2018 20:34

www.theguardian.com/society/2018/oct/16/academics-are-being-harassed-over-their-research-into-transgender-issues

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WSPU · 16/10/2018 21:28

So heartening and brave. I’m an academic and I know what it’s taken for them to sign, especially as so many of them are alone in their departments and even universities. I can tell you that there are many, many other academics, male and female, who agree with them.

NotBadConsidering · 16/10/2018 21:13

I think it’s excellent that letter and the letter the other day have been sent to the Guardian/Observer. If they’d refused to publish it would have been an emphatic statement that they are in the #nodebate camp, proving the points of the letter. By publishing, it’s a win for the letter authors; being published by a paper like the Times would have just led to “another right wing transphobic rag” attacks.

vicviking · 16/10/2018 21:06

Great letter. I want to see all their senior management stand behind them and protect them or they are not worth their salt.

silentcrow · 16/10/2018 21:06

Sad to see only one from either of my alma maters, both of which have cropped up as kool-aid drinkers. Great to see it in the Guardian, though, what on earth has changed their position?

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 16/10/2018 21:05

So pleased to see someone I knew as a postgraduate on the list.

Props to all of them for being brave enough to put their names out there.

OvaHere · 16/10/2018 21:03

That's an impressive list of names. Glad to hear they are networking, hopefully much needed studies will commence sooner rather than later.

whereisthatpenguinfrom · 16/10/2018 21:03

Yes Star Star Star so pleased to see an academic from my Uni on the list. Brave inspirational woman.

heresyandwitchcraft · 16/10/2018 21:02

Oh how wonderful to see this letter. Thank you to all the signatories. Star

KatherinaMinola · 16/10/2018 20:56

One of my former lecturers on that list Smile

BillStickersIsInnocent · 16/10/2018 20:55

Yes! So pleased to see this in the guardian

RepealtheGRA · 16/10/2018 20:54

LOJ have any comment?

Is the letter good enough for me to get over my refusal to click on guardian links?

lenaperkins · 16/10/2018 20:52

Interesting, and brave of the academics.

boatyardblues · 16/10/2018 20:52

It was quite something have to keep scrolling down & still the list kept coming. Interesting to seesuch a diverse range of disciplines and institutions represented. 👍

TransposersArePosers · 16/10/2018 20:52

In the Guardian

What's happened?

littlbrowndog · 16/10/2018 20:52

Jeez it comes to something when academics have to write letters to papers to say they are being harrassed and no5 allowed to speak
How did we get here

FermatsTheorem · 16/10/2018 20:50

Wow! What a list of names. I am in awe of them - both for speaking out publicly, and for the sheer intellectual clout they wield collectively.

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 16/10/2018 20:43

clicky link