Woman suing the Tavistock and Portman for racism, discrimination against philosophical belief

Yes, so-called "affinity housing". Very progressive! They'll be introducing racially segregated drinking fountains next...

Indeed - their ignorance knows no bounds.

I’ve got quite a few friends who are experiencing similar issues within their own families, where the parents are of different racial heritage and kids are mixed (and often of varying appearances even when full siblings).

It’s bad enough when this critical race theory stuff pops up in workplaces and institutions but when it gets into the family unit it’s absolutely devastating.

I completely agree with all the points made in the video re: blaming personal difficulties on society renders much of mental health therapy useless.

Critical social justice theory works in direct opposition to something like Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, which is all about identifying the changes you can personally make and enacting them. Starting with the smallest things and building up to the bigger.

I personally worry that telling girls that women have always been oppressed by men and always will be has allowed Genderism to ooze in through the cracks.
After all, why would a modern day teenage girl listen to what silly old oppressed middle-aged Feminist mum has to say, when mum is clearly too stupid to escape her own oppression via a transition to ‘male’?

What could squeeze into the cracks created by critical race theory?

Unlike sex/gender you can’t transition from an oppressed race to an oppressor race (because: IDPOL reasons!) and disaffected men without a clear route towards change are (historically) prone to violence.

Surely no one wants that?

One of my favourite (if that's the word) recent examples was that at the end of 2020 California had a ballot proposition to do this:

The ballot measure would repeal Proposition 209 (1996), which added the following provision to the California Constitution: “The State shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.”

Read it again, if you didn't quite grasp it.

Yes, that's right, they wanted to remove the racial discrimination provision from the consititution (installed in the bad old days of the 1990s) because it was stopping them from doing whatever they want to do.

One of the most significant things I'm aware of wanting to discriminating in schools and colleges to try to get fewer Asian-American students. (Recent piece on that by Andrew Sullivan)

The proposition failed, thankfully - but only by 57% to 43%.

I'm not an expert on all this, but about a year ago I read how they were starting to open up segregated schools in New York, using race theory as the argument for their need.

I also raised my eyebrows at the bit where they told her Christianity was European.

That's just idiotically ignorant, why would anyone believe ideologies based on such stupid statements?

I think it's really important for people to understand that gender ideology is not a stand alone thing. It's part of a much larger construct and all of this anti-racism thinking is part of that.

A just as an aside, the degree to which I despise the fact that now anti-racism is now pretty much the same thing as old-fashioned 19th century scientific racism is really upsetting to me. Because like she says, if you stand against anti-racism, the implication is that you are a racist.

Article from 2013, Jenkins was the first non-clinician to be appointed to the Chief Executive post (local newspaper article)

www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/health/21378985.interview-tavistock-portmans-new-head-paul-jenkins-challenges-faces/

Article from 2022 (industry specific title):

www.hsjjobs.com/article/ceo-of-trust-with-deep-seated-cultural-and-governance-issues-to-retire

Kathleen Stock on GIDS:

unherd.com/2022/08/why-the-tavistock-had-to-fall/

Donated. I'd like psychologists to be sane and not steeped in queer and critical race theory.

I wonder when it started?

Paul Jenkins stepped down (ostensibly due to early retirement) this summer. The timing of that announcement was slightly before the the GIDS closure news stories, and GIDS was one of T&Ps biggest income streams…

tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/about-us/news/stories/trust-ceo-paul-jenkins-to-retire-at-the-end-of-september-2022/

Wow that's utterly insane.

I work in organisational development with organisations supporting traumatised women and we talk about parallel processes a lot that the whole organisation can replicate the dynamics between worker and client, or clients and their other relationships.

She is very articulate.

What is particularly interesting is the way she looks at the behaviour and ascribes it symptoms. As if the organisation were a patient. Neurotic seems to be her diagnosis. You treat, don’t pander.

Quelle surprise.

Lol that they said Martin Luther king's ideas were discredited...

God sounds like the whole of the Tavistock is ideologically captured. Good for her standing up to this nonsense.