We're about to be investigated

@PostItJoyWeek 100% the witch hunt never stopped and seems to be ramping up again.

Indigenous? good luck. As a PP said, pretty sure most men and women knew what a woman was and what a man was back then and I would say most still do (even if they nicey nicey play along with the delusions of trans individuals re their gender).

Can I identify as Woodwose?

Well in theory a celt Irish, but that pesky spanish armada came ashore when wrecked, raped and pillaged my ancestors villages hence my dark hair and blue eyes. So I guess that has stymied my application.

BTW the irish get very touchy at the insinuation that spanish/moor blood runs through their veins.

It is about male rights and hopefully people are waking up to that.

Female isn't a costume is a simple as it needs to be. We are female and are affected by various innate biological factors and that is why women's rights were fought for.

Male right to wear female costume is their right/choice but not to tell females they know the lived experience of being affected daily by our own biology. We are not a costume.

FFS we really are living in a tinpot little totalitarian dictatorship.

Can’t feed people, can’t house people, sold off any thing in public ownership, next thing they’ll be selling off the farmland itself. But how dare we complain about any of that? You know the real problem? Bloody women protesting against sexism.

Have they even realised that anti-gender means against sexism, and being against anti-gender is to be openly in favour of sexism? How far I their linguistic tunnels can they go before they lose track of the whole concept of meaning, let alone specific instances of it?

Just when I think I can hold no more contempt for this disgusting country and its leaders they give me reason to find more.

A very short step from 'radical' to 'radicalised' is my guess.

Which I suppose does explain why Neanderthal DNA may be a plus.

'anti gender radicals' are impacting on transgender people's human rights.

unpack that (as you say) clearly stated conclusion reached ahead of the research.

There's no such thing as 'anti-gender', what they mean in essence is women defending their existing legal rights.

This is research into how women defending their existing legal rights are impacting on transgender people's human rights. By doing evil things like writing to the MPs, pointing out current law, participating in government consultations and pointing out facts, realities and issues for women, and raising public awareness of why removing sex based rights from women may make some males very happy but is really not appropriate or ok or inclusive or legal in terms of equality for all female people.

And since this is purely about female people getting in the way of male people, it isn't about transgender people's rights, it's about male rights.

This is in essence therefore, about how to find out about and stop women organising and standing up for their rights in ways that some male people are finding inconvenient.

US cultural imperialism, innit?

I mean are we talking Reindeer, or further back to woolly rhinos? There's dino footprints. Maybe they want an iguanodon?

I state my ethnicity as British Mongrel (deffo Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Viking in the mix. But my mother had a dodgy foreign maiden name - probably Dutch though ancestry research hadn't found the culprit so I'm not sure how diluted by the rest of the DNA that will be).

My Grandad had a Roman nose and lived in Northumberland, near The Wall.

Does that make me Latinx?

I like the idea of being investigated. I wonder if there's a badge or a t-shirt. If I don't get grilled by someone in a trilby and a raincoat, I'll be really miffed.

We have some indigenous I think, because I liked Stonehenge when I visited. Might apply

Heh.

I don't know why I'm so exercised about this.

But ok imagine i apply.
Which I would be welcome to do, being disabled and gender non conforming and whatnot.
Although tbh desk based research is not my thing as I focus more on co-generation of knowledge.
But say if i need the money.

'Produce an expert and accessible paper on radical anti-gender organizing against trans people in the UK.'
What if my desk-based research concludes that anti-gender organiSing benefits everyone.
Do I still get paid?

Well the list of who they welcome applications from shows that zero thought has gone into it, which isn't a good start for the activity they want to fund....

or are they looking for someone in particular, or hoping for a right-on hatchet job?

Oh no, they would never do that.

When someone coming here from the states asked me to connect her with indigenous groups, I had a bit of a chat with her and she ended up contacting gypsy/traveller organisations.
I sort of know what they mean.
But it isn't the right word really.

www.txstate.edu/philosophy/resources/fallacy-definitions/Begging-the-Question.html

Indigenous works in an Aussie/Canadian/US context. Not so much here, especially as the far right use it as a dogwhistle for 'anyone who isn't white' even if they were born here.

Indigenous seems to be the new trendy word that has replaced 'diasporic'- both generally used out of context in a way that makes my teeth itch.

From an academic perspective, I can't get my head around this.
If they're asking for someone with possibly a journalistic background or similar, why would they have research publications?
Am I misunderstanding what 'research' is, or are they looking for someone in particular, or hoping for a right-on hatchet job?

Also, the logic of it doesn't work. It isn't really beginning with questions but rather conclusions eg 'anti gender radicals' are impacting on transgender people's human rights.
I mean, is that established?

Oh, I’m right in here 👍. My mother was 100% Celtic and my father was 75% Indigenous American.....don’t know about the other 25% but I bet it was indigenous to somewhere 😊

Lazy, culturally illiterate tosspots.

Maya's thread makes some very interesting links, including around their funding.

I am confident a male Lantinx sex worker will be able to tell them every thing they need to know about women's groups in the UK. There's been dozens of them at meetings here.