Open University pushing transrights falsehoods

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ChristinaXYZ · 18/03/2021 11:18

The ideological capture of educational institutions is one the most depressing aspects of the war on women. where one hopes for logics, free speech and evidence based argument one gets obfuscation and 'feelings'.

This OU article shows how far it has gone - it is so unbalanced and full of falsehoods, shows no concept of the other side of the argument and presents things that aren't so - like no trans organisations allowed to be represented at the Keira Bell case (when they weren't give permission to be a party because of their failure to present new, relevant evidence).

www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/childhood-youth-studies/supporting-young-trans-peoples-rights-health-and-happiness

If you've ever studied with the OU you can leave a comment at the end but it will be in your real name and you may not feel able to do that. You can however login and give it a 1 star without identifying yourself public ally I believe - and I hope you'd do it not because you disagree but because an academic has written something so poor - for failing to acknowledge the range of argument, failing to provide actual evidence and misrepresenting evidence for the other side!

The OU have poor form on this having deleted their congratulation of Kathleen Stock after internal pressure. On the plus side they do employ Jon Pike who has made a public stand for women's sports.

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EnfysPreseli · 18/03/2021 12:00

What a biased and poorly researched article. All the references are for authors with a similar viewpoint and even the account of Bell v Tavistock (which is described as Tavistock v Bell) is loaded and misinformed. This isn’t educating learners, it's indoctrinating them into a single "apporoved" viewpoint. It makes the author appear very naive and gullible to anyone with more experience of real life children and young people and children's rights. It's a poor example for students and needs to be challenged or the capture of schools, youth and play work will become even more entrenched. Renold et al have already done significant damage in Wales weaving their cult like obsession with genderology through toolkits and selling training. Complete hijacking. So very, very selfish and depressing.

SingToTheSky · 18/03/2021 11:42

Argh. Marvellous. I am starting my degree with them in September hopefully - I did start a thread the other day about the course (introduction to childhood studies and child psychology I think it’s called) as the recommended reading textbook is by someone who was at the time professor of gender and education. Although when I looked up their more recent stuff it seems like they’ve gone away from gender perhaps.

It’s a better fit for me as a first course to my degree but I’m concerned for sure. The description only briefly mentions gender so I’m hoping it won’t need to be a big part of my assignments but who knows.

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