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ESRC sending millions of pounds to Sally Hines / Leeds Uni to research gender bollocks

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QuietContraryMary · 20/11/2018 15:03

Ht (twitter.com/DaveDavidDave_/status/1064836550448619522)

There's £700k, for example, for 'Living Gender in Diverse Times'

This features a motley crew of gender cultists:

Helen [redacted] (credited only as 'Helen', and with the email adress of press@mermaids) (she's on twitter as @mimmymum and has an adoring audience of diaper fetishists & furries as she says how great puberty blockers)

Meg-John Barker (partner of Edward Lord, non-binary freemason & big-time TRA), previously featured here: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3339137-BACP-Gender-Sexual-and-Relationship-Diversity-by-Dr-Meg-John-Barker

Anna Carlile - gender cultist lecturer at Goldsmiths and Mermaids advocate

Justin Hancock - is a double act with Meg-John Barker (above) megjohnandjustin.com/about-us/

Ruth Pearce - Leeds Uni gender cultist ruthpearce.net/

Emma Renold - professor of childhood studies, promotes transgender identity to children www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5932855/Transgender-muffin-challenge-young-people-reads-like-satire.html

Vanita Sundaram - intersectional feminist type, busy retweeting tweets from TW calling for Rachel Stock to be fired for transphobia twitter.com/VanitaSundaram

Liam Tielemans - works for some sort LGBT charity. Strangely, the emphasis seems to be on the T. www.lgbtconsortium.org.uk/node/3308

Strangely there does not seem to be any non-kool-aid drinkers among their number.

It's not really surprising this crap becomes law & public policy when there's a never-ending stream of cash, public (as here), semi-public (like BBC CiN), and private (Lloyds, etc.)

Follow the money.

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TalkingintheDark · 20/11/2018 15:29

Economic and Social Research Council

rightreckoner · 20/11/2018 15:29

I don't see one single thing in Helen Belcher's CV that makes them in any way qualified to advise on pregnant "men".

They ran a software company though - which very much accords with who these people are, typically.

TalkingintheDark · 20/11/2018 15:28

I just looked at the website of ESRC and their tagline is:

“shaping society”.

Yes. Indeed.

OrchidInTheSun · 20/11/2018 15:28

European Social Research Council I'm guessing?

TheMinorityEngineer · 20/11/2018 15:26

ESRC?

Mumfun · 20/11/2018 15:23

Follow the money always.

So many of them make their entire living from this stuff.So if it goes down so do they. No wonder they defend the indefensible

Bowlofbabelfish · 20/11/2018 15:22

But how can the research COST that much? What is the money FOR?

I can waffle on at length about lab budgets (£1100 plus for a single millilitre of one thing i used to use, expensive sequencers, hybridisation ovens, arrays, blah blah.)

What is half a million quid actually being spent on in a project of this type?

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QuietContraryMary · 20/11/2018 15:14

Silentlyobserving, they are just making a living.

Same way that people burn millions in electricity to generate useless numbers (bitcoin), if you funnel money into something then people will follow.

And obviously anyone who isn't into chemically castrating children, send rapists to women's prisons, etc. will be very publicly humiliated & drummed out of employment for 'transphobia' if they even tried to get into this line of work, which is itself unlikely.

Absolute junk science. A circle jerk, if you will pardon the analogy (which of course could be a male or female penis).

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QuietContraryMary · 20/11/2018 15:10

This is the £500k for pregnant men project.

transpregnancy.leeds.ac.uk/

The advisors are equally dreadful

transpregnancy.leeds.ac.uk/profile_type/advisory-group/

E.g., Helen Belcher, who is a transwoman TRA/would-be Lib Dem MP, and whose relevance to pregnant 'men' seems to be tenuous at best.

Also Christina Richards, who is a transwoman who writes books saying how ABDL, DDLG, furry are not paraphilias but perfectly normal, alongside working for the NHS as a gender doctor.

Quite a few other non-uterus owners there also.

Money again looks to be going towards Leeds Uni salaries of Sally Hines & Ruth Pearce.

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