Raquel Rosario Sanchez

And here she is writing an opinion piece for Newsweek. (Isn't that quite a big US magazine?)

Gender Dogma Threatens to Pulverize Women's Rights

I didn't know she had some US academic background:

I minored in Women and Gender Studies in Utah and did a Masters Degree in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies in Oregon.

I'd be interested to know if she had any bad gender-identity ideology experiences there. My preconception was that this stuff hit earlier in US academia.

She has such beautiful hair.

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Update from RRS

Dear everyone,

Hope you are well.

As you know, we were in court from February 7th-14th, 2022. At the end of the trial, the judge informed us that he will aim to have his judgement ready within the next three months, but that at that point, if he needed more time he could request an extension.

We have received no news from the Court yet. Many people have been asking me, so I imagine lots of you will want to know the outcome of our legal case against the University of Bristol. I really want to know too, but I'm not worried, or stressed or anxious about it. The outcome will be ready, when it is ready. And if the judge needs extra time, then that is perfectly understandable. The last two months on this litigation (December and January) where thoroughly horrible for me, due to the conduct of the Defendant and their insistence on making this process as difficult as possible for me. So all my sleepless nights (and there were a lot) were before the trial, and now I feel at peace that my legal team and I worked very hard to ensure we presented our case as best as we could.

You can read my Witness Statement here:
www.raquelrosariosanchez.com/witness-statement

You can find the Closing Submissions, the Witness Statement from Dr Emma Williamson and our Skeleton Argument on this page:
www.raquelrosariosanchez.com/legal-documents

That being said, I still have a lot of pending legal bills. The bulk of the work for the case took place towards the end, hence why it accumulated. December and January were extremely busy and intense for my lawyers and for me. Please consider donating again, and sharing this page with people in your circles who could contribute as well. I really need your help to meet the stretch target.

I will keep you posted regarding any news from the Court, as soon as I can. And again, thank you for all your support,
Raquel

Ps. Here's an interview I did last night with Andrew Doyle for his programme Free Speech Nation on GB News. The interview focused on my legal case and broader issues about academia:

Raquel's deposition is a difficult read. It is incomprehensible that women are considered a threat if they wish to meet and discuss things that affect them, based on their sex. One person's strongly held view, ie that transwomen are women, does not justify the silencing of people who hold another point of view, ie that women are oppressed because of their sex and that sex is immutable.

I struggle, every time I read something like this.. to see this from the point of view of acquaintances who have trans children or who believe that the harm caused to women is in part due to the insistence that the sexual binary is of primary importance and that we would be liberated if we departed from this narrative.

But then, I cannot get past the fact that those who wished to silence Women's Place UK and Women Talk Back were doing so based on no evidence of violence or threat to anyone. The strength of the opposition to groups of women who wish to meet and talk is incomprehensible, especially given the lack of evidence that there was anything that constituted hate, or illegal activity.

She clearly points out that the university repeatedly put the needs of trans students above that of their female students. Protecting the right to freedom of speech of one group does not mean that those rights should be taken away from another group. Protecting one group from harassment does not mean that others groups should not be protected. It is possible to give voice and protection to groups with differing views. We have done that for centuries to religions.. and I hate to bring religion into it as I do not believe that protecting the rights of women is a belief system, but it is the most familiar example that we have.

I have shared this on my facebook and have had no comments and one like. The last time I shared something gender critical, the same thing happened.. I posted a silly picture of one of my kids a day later and had dozens of likes.. My friends are silent on this subject. Thank heavens for this board because this story and the stories of other women who are silenced makes me cry. At least I know that my reaction is not unique.

Placemarking

Adjourned and judge asking for time, hoping it won't take 3 months to reach a decision? Me, too!

Yes. Tweets following it here:
twitter.com/tribunaltweets

Yes bishophaha, at 4.30

Is the hearing wrapping up today?

There’s a good article about the case in the Spectator.

www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-academic-taking-on-the-trans-activist-bullies-at-bristol-university

I have just finished reading it too. BU have been disgraceful. Heads should roll, but I'm sure that the only people at risk of losing their jobs are the ones who don't tow the TWAW line.

Just read Raquel's witness statement, all 75 pages. Wow, the account it makes of ideological capture is shocking. The bullying by TRAs is awful but it doesn't surprise me as much of the complete disregard by all the people who are supposed to have a duty of care for Raquel as a vulnerable student of the university.

And to think that on day one when the University's barrister was questioning RRS, I was struggling to work out what the issue was.

This is awful!

I read Raquel's statement. It took a fair while, both because it's so long but also just so horrible to take in how much BU has failed her.

I had a look at the live tweets this week but can't really work out if it's going well for Raquel or not. I sincerely hope so though, and I hope that if she wants to stay in the UK (totally wouldn't blame her if she didn't) she's able to.

Also I don't understand why the person AA has to be kept secret but other names are mentioned? If Raquel wins does AA's identity get revealed?

I fucking hope all of them can’t sleep at night, the victim blaming wankers

I appear to have got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning

I think that they are soooo busy being cool and inclusive that they cannot actually see what is right in front of them.

I'm only halfway through Raquel's witness statement, and although I've been following this for a while on here, reading the whole thing is absolutely shocking.

god, all those people with 'diversity' in their titles actively trying to push a mixed race woman out of the university

do you think they even realise what they've done?

Raquel's witness statement. www.raquelrosariosanchez.com/witness-statement

Times article today:

Raquel Rosario-Sánchez: Bristol University staff accused of trying to trick trans row student

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/raquel-rosario-sanchez-bristol-university-staff-accused-of-trying-to-trick-trans-row-student-km8xfsxpc

Raquel says university staff tried to trick her into missing a visa deadline so she would be forced to leave the country.

I don't have a share token sorry

Everything has been planned, right down to the last detail. Everything to try and scupper Rosario-Sanchez's route to justice. All the Unions are in cahoots and NHS uses the same tactics. Look at what happened in the Kiera Bell case, they said statistics weren't available and then published something within a few days.

Perhaps we need an inquiry into what is happening, or a judicial review. This certainly needs someone in government to look at what is going on. This is really appalling stuff and MSM need a real good look at this

X post with @yourhairiswinterfire . That's a breathtaking list of delay and obfuscation!

Late or failure to disclose has been a repeated tactic by Bristol Uni, according to RRS's updates on Crowdfunder.

I've seen this sort of thing happen at trials. All things being equal, you would want to give the recipient party time to digest the late disclosures/amend statements/prepare for X examination etc. However, the court timetable is backed up terribly (it was bad enough pre-covid, obviously worse since). It is so hard to adjourn and then get a timely resumption of the trial as a result. The more days allocated for the trial , the worse it is finding slot.

This makes it very tempting for one party to dump important documents on the other side at the last minute and claim a "mistake". The judge and the recipient party are reluctant to adjourn, for timetabling reasons (judge doesn't want to have to read in prep for the trial twice) and for sanity reasons (recipient party has probably been waiting an age, psyched themselves up, and can't bear the thought of another delay). So the recipient and their solicitors end up having to work through the night digesting, amending, reworking tactics etc etc. The document dumping party may incur a costs penalty for the fuck up, but they probably calculate it is worth it to catch the other side on the back foot. Even if the docs are of use to the recipient, receiving them and building them in to evidence may fuck up the tactical approach the recipient and their lawyer has hitherto been using, make their arguments incoherent. At the very least, it makes the recipient their lawyer rattled, possibly exhausted from pulling an all nighter, off their game the next day....

Now, I'm not saying Bristol Uni have done anything nefarious. But to have failed to disclose a document relating to RRS's chief tormentor? In a situation where the judge has already said no more trial delays? I smell kippers.