University staff given list of banned 'microinsults' they cannot say to trans people

This lad? 🙄
Jess is quite the character...

Sacred caste. Never a good idea.

With the list of banned statements and the prisoner thing, it's clear that what trans ideology wants, and is being given in some situations, is for every trans person to be literally beyond reproach - infallible, incapable of doing wrong, everything they do is fine and anyone who doesn't like it, even if it's criminal behaviour, is the aggressor and the trans person is innocent.

One of the anonymous accounts on one of the websites set up for adademica to talk about this, was about a transwoman student who was constantly parading around showing an erection through a dress and physically / sexually harassing people, but no one in authority would do anything about it because that would be anti-trans and it was just how that person was

What's weird is that those making these rules can't see that no other oppressed group gets this treatment. While women/either sex class are conspicuously being left out of these lists of protected categories, even those who are included (gay, bi, ethnic minority, disabled etc) are not given these extra special protections of not having to hear people talk about reality and not being seen as capable of doing wrong.

I wanted to be a boy when I was a child

So it's not so much about microaggressions, it's about saying anything that might raise logical questions or put trans people in danger of confronting reality. Statement of relevant, reasonable truth is banned.

The avoidance thing is ridiculous too, as well as scary. You're allowed to avoid anyone surely, even if it's just because you don't like them. We've all had to work or be on a course with someone who we'd avoid in other situations because they were unpleasant or difficult.

One of the reasons I'd avoid someone is if they were the type to cry offence all the time, turn innocent mistakes into "aggressions", play the victim, or try to compel others' speech. So I can quite easily see why I would avoid a certain type of trans person and it wouldn't be avoiding them because they identified as trans, but because they were PITA, not helped by being treated by authority as if their every whim was instant law.

It reminds me of one of those (numerous) articles where a trans person was talking about how victimised and misunderstood they were, where they said they were turned down for a flatshare and when asked why they were told the other flatties "couldn't be doing with the drama" and how terribly offensive this was. But maybe, just maybe, it wasn't because they were trans it was because they were an obvious drama queen who took offence at the drop of a hat and kept policing people.

Jess Bradley was the one who disappeared shortly after posting images online of Jess airing Jess's willy at jess's desk, & on public transport, I think.

Oh & cartoon images of Ben 10 being raped.

A not wholly frivolous thought has struck me. Are lanyards not, in and of themselves, hazardous? Quite easy to grab someone by the lanyard and use it to choke them, I would have thought.
Might be grounds for declining to wear one

I refuse and for this very reason. My swipe ID lives in my pocket or my bag.

Squished like a bug! 😂😂😂

[quote R0wantrees]Of that lengthy list of demands (they even manage to sound like hostage takers)
We demand immediate release & pardon for all trans prisoners. is the most perplexing. Surely nobody thinks trans prisoners have been imprisoned for the crime of being trans?

Any excuse to post the video of Jess Bradley (Action For Trans Health) with a purple and pink bag, being mown down by a Pipe Band after a ridiculously short and ineffective protest, Glasgow Pride 2017:

Of that lengthy list of demands (they even manage to sound like hostage takers)
We demand immediate release & pardon for all trans prisoners. is the most perplexing. Surely nobody thinks trans prisoners have been imprisoned for the crime of being trans?

Any excuse to post the video of Jess Bradley (Action For Trans Health) with a purple and pink bag, being mown down by a Pipe Band after a ridiculously short and ineffective protest, Glasgow Pride 2017:

The first 'Mixed' Heavy Anti-Aircraft (HAA) battery of the Royal Artillery (435 (Mixed) HAA Battery) was formed on 25 June 1941, and took over an operational gun site in Richmond Park, south-west London, in August. It was the forerunner of hundreds of similar units with the ATS supplying two-thirds of the personnel: at its height in 1943 three-quarters of Anti-Aircraft Command's HAA batteries were mixed. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary_Territorial_Service

I read a biography of a woman who served in such a unit. On their first leave after being allowed to wear lanyards, they walked proudly round town, only to be stopped by a Military Policeman. They enjoyed telling him that no, they weren't claiming something to which they had no right; they'd earned them.

Now, those were lanyards.

After doing a bit of digging on Ada Wells, I dredged this up. I think this speaks volumes. Ada's Twitter account doesn't exist anymore. Tbh I'd be surprised if Ada wasn't banned for the anti-semetic, anti-police, homophobic nonsense that was on their timeline.

How someone like this ends up as a Uni's LGBTQI++ officer is beyond me....

did have Ada Wells as the LGBTQI++ officer who campaigned for women who wouldn't sleep with trans women (or who believed women don't have penises) to be expelled from the university
If the day ever arrives when you can be expelled from university or fired from the workplace because you exercised your God given right to choose who you sleep with I think I'll check out.
I will no longer be able to cope with the world.

This student paper is not in any way a GC source but even they could not get behind Ada Wells:

thetab.com/uk/edinburgh/2016/08/23/ada-wells-resigns-eusas-lgbt-officer-25017

I used to work as an administrator on a Master's course. It was an eye opener to realise how much things had changed since I was a student in the early 80s. Back then, we were issued with a timetable and a few reading lists and after that we were more or less on our own. No evaluations of any kind were carried out. If there was an appeals process for exam results, I was unaware of it. As far as I can recall, our teaching was OK, some was excellent. If we ever had any complaints, I have no idea what we could have done. Nothing, I surmise.

I had a tutor one year who was academically brilliant. I learned a lot from him. He had MS and was in a wheelchair. I found it inspiring that he had managed to stay in his full-time job while battling a serious illness. He was also socially extremely conservative, for religious reasons, IIRC. I remember him going off on a mini-rant about how annoying it was that the word 'gay' was lost to the English language in its original sense now it was being used to indicate someone was homosexual. I didn't bother to challenge him, from a combination of cowardice and a feeling that it would be a waste of time - I wasn't going to change his mind.

He'd be up on a charge now. What a loss that would be to the students.

But of course back in the early 80s students were not consumers. The LEAs paid the fees, not us. I barely knew there were fees.

By the 2000s/2010s, every single module had to be evaluated, and the department was expected to rush through changes in response to any student criticism/feedback. Many times, we made changes one year and the next year the next cohort complained that they would have preferred things another way - the way we used to do it! A particular highlight was when a student complained that the timetable showed a lecture timed for 2-5pm but the session often ended before 5pm. 'If I've paid for 3 hours, I expect to get 3 hours', she told our Head of Department. So next year we filled the full 3-hour session and guess what, at the end of the year, many of the part-time students said what a long day it was and how they wished the afternoon session could end a bit earlier.

This climate has laid the groundwork for the nonsense we're seeing on this thread. The student voice used to be inaudible. That was bad. Now it's deafening. That's not good either.

did have Ada Wells as the LGBTQI++ officer who campaigned for women who wouldn't sleep with trans women (or who believed women don't have penises) to be expelled from the university

Wasn't that the person who insulted the late and lamented Magdalen Berns and called some transwomen (who'd had SRS) "truscum"?

As this came from the Scottish branch of ATH presumably that means Paris Green, horrific torture murderer, and "Mighty Almighty" who was too dangerous to be tried in one court.

www.scotsman.com/news/54-years-trio-who-tortured-victim-death-1553766

www.keep-prisons-single-sex.org.uk/tiffany-scott

www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-news/1492364/transgender-prisoner-tiffany-scott-andrew-burns-dangerous-sheriff/amp/

That list of demands is just BONKERS.
It makes me think of a small child saying "I want....I want....."

It's ludicrous, isn't it.

Of that lengthy list of demands (they even manage to sound like hostage takers)
We demand immediate release & pardon for all trans prisoners. is the most perplexing. Surely nobody thinks trans prisoners have been imprisoned for the crime of being trans?

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/01/university-staff-given-list-banned-microinsults-cannot-say-trans/amp/

because students would not be expelled for saying "I wanted to be a boy when I was little". You are making up stuff and then get angry at it

But @CatherinaJTV university staff can be threatened by students, who can demand that staff "change their thinking" or be sacked they tried it with me

It's Orwellian.