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Sunday Times - Sex question catapults census into trans war

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mcduffy · 15/12/2019 08:27

Sex question catapults census into trans war

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sex-question-catapults-census-into-trans-war-vq29nfvsg

I'm not sure how to do share tokens (or if I can from the app)
Letter sent to the Sunday Times today from >70 academics, some of whom have opted to be anonymous.

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BovaryX · 15/12/2019 08:48

Thank you for the share token Empress.

^Sullivan said it was crucial that academics had the correct data on men and women for many reasons, from calculating the gender pay gap to crime statistics. She said it was a “great shame” that a “chilling climate” was shutting down debate on transgender
issues^

The chilling climate that is suffocating freedom of speech and thought in academia needs to be urgently addressed by the government. This census will be meaningless if the data collected on sex bears no relationship to biological reality. Someone on another thread, I think it was UncompromisingWoman, mentioned that the civil service has been colonized by this lobby. It’s ludicrous that sex is being supplanted by gender on official documents

EmpressLesbianInChair · 15/12/2019 08:41

I’m not sure how to do them from the app, but on browser pages I tap the email share icon & copy & paste from there.

LongLiveThePenis · 15/12/2019 08:39

It'd be better off as a religion.
Can we put Gender Critical as a religion and claim a hate crime when we inevitably get attacked for this view?

Coldwatershock · 15/12/2019 08:37

Anyone good with share tokens?

BovaryX · 15/12/2019 08:35

The next census has come under fire from more than 80 academics for allowing people to self-identify when they are asked whether they are male or female. Under proposed guidance, respondents will be able to answer the question according to what they feel themselves to be, rather than according to the biological sex they were born as

This will render the results meaningless. This lobby’s determination to obliterate biological sex by conflating it with gender is an attack on external reality and the language used to describe it. It is yet another indictment of the totalitarian atmosphere in universities that some academics are too afraid to put their names to this.

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