LGBT month - This is a weird event to have during work time...

I've looked at the link but can't see if it's open to the public too. I'm a bit nervous about clicking on it, so maybe I'll check out the uni's website to see.

If there's one type of body which has been 'othered' through the years, it's the female type which has typically only been of interest to science when it has a baby growing inside it.

Woop. A Willie modelling class at work!

Sounds like a great talking point that you can share with all your colleagues.

Is it something you can ask people to compare with their own?

Do you get to make it and leave it on your desk, without being done for potentially offending or being seen to sexual harassment your colleagues?

Amazing.

Id definitely be going and recording the whole shit show and sending it out for comment. If it is online you can quite easily record it without using your work equipment.

Hahaha you need to go to this!

My thoughts, too

Has whoever tagged this event as lgbtq+ month relevant considered how it will potentially open up unwelcome speculation about what the genitals of post-surgery trans colleagues might look like? I can't imagine that the majority of trans people would welcome this event as helping them be accepted. It's supposed to be TERFs that are keen on 'genital inspections'.

Given the vast naturally occurring variety in the genitalia of biological women and men who have had no surgery, it may be that the message from this session is meant to be that we are all very different. But it's coming over as a bit 'freak show'. Instead of having lots of models of abnormal anatomy suspended in formaldehyde and lining a lab wall, will we now have a heap of 3D models of deformity in every medical department which students can not only look at within a glass jar but handle and manipulate? Perhaps this needs to be a thought given here about medical ethics?

I can see the topic and the technology may be interesting in university research setting looking at medicine/biology. I agree with @LGBTmonth it's a weird choice for LGBT month. I would have said it's pretty insensitive.

I’d find another job. The culture sounds awful.

3D printing? They could have saved a fortune by nipping to Tesco’s and buying a banana, a couple of satsumas and a ham sandwich.

Take one for the team. Sign up & record/ take notes of every damn thing you can, including any promotion of the event in Teams, etc.
Always be archiving.

Edited to fix typo

Its very very basic.

You will be up before HR if you try to start a chat about clitoris, labia, or perineal pouch at the watercooler.

A male could end up in HR after medical leave if he brought up the subject with a lone woman ........ how [(edit) big bad word choice] heavy are your office staplers?

The university of Birmingham?

https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/teaching-bodies-not-assumptions-advancing-transgender-and-intersex-inclusive-anatomy-education

would be lovely to attend to ask what third gamete / sex they have found for mammals.

This. I suppose some people think it fair that 50% of the population get a whole day to celebrate being women. Although in my borough they only ran evening events so it wasn’t even a whole day. 🙁

WTAF!! What country are you in?? If the Uk please share this with Tanya at the following.

She is more than happy to call out the absurdity of these events!!

https://x.com/isntworkingpod?s=21&t=D40fJoAc3zORU7eLdDrDNQ

"A reflection on transgender and intersex inclusive anatomy education initiatives... including an EDI Biomedical Sciences project using 3D printing and wax modelling to represent transgender, intersex and cisgender perineal anatomy."

There is something so schoolboyish nudge, nudge, wink, wink dressed up as serious adult need to know knowledge that makes everything so cringe.

I dont care it is online, but fancy telling your employees they should even acknowledge that something like this is happening.

Pride, that used to be Gay Liberation ahs been turned into a sleazy exhibitionist queer celebration.

Queer in the sense of challenging the "norm", which all to often in the Rainbow Coalition means pushing the boundary of getting rational adults to join in the school boy smut.

Education? Not.

Sounds like a pervert's dream! But for normal people - bleugh! What a bloody weird suggestion for a work event 😱

And as usual the female anatomical diagrams are not included/don't exist.

God, how tedious.

It's just a part of the perineum - everyone has one. The below Wiki article has medical diagrams but no photos:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superficial_perineal_pouch

Even if this is a genuine academic study [and I have my doubts] it is a very niche subject of relevance to a small specialised group of people. Completely inappropriate to broadcast it to a much wider audience in work time.

I’d be concerned if you worked for the Home Office, or Deloitte, or Network Rail, and the employee LGBT network was putting this stuff on specifically for staff. I’d be even more concerned if there was an insinuation from HR that staff were expected to attend it or that it was being promoted as part of staff EDI training.

I don’t get the impression that’s what this webinar is aimed at though. It’s a webinar delivered by a former research fellow of the university and part of the university’s wider open access programme of events, webinars and film screenings, available to students, staff, alumni, researchers, and the general public. It would be up to university staff to decide whether their work commitments enabled them to attend the event if it interested them - the same as with any of the other things on the programme.

I agree, I think the subject matter is crud, it derives from a very niche project, and it’s probably entirely irrelevant to and will be of no interest to at least 95% of those with an affiliation to the university. But based on what it is, does your engagement with it need to go beyond the fact that you aren’t interested in the subject, you don’t think it’s relevant to your area of work, and you’re working at the time it’s being held, so won’t be taking up the opportunity?

I might regret asking this, but what are "superficial perineal pouch structures"?

I'll take a guess. Either Sussex or Edinburgh.

Bizarre. I also work for a large and very captured organisation and last year the entire company was invited to a talk about one individual's experience with being asexual. I could not (still can't) get my head around what could possibly be interesting in listening to a colleague talk about not being interested in shagging*, nor how that person felt comfortable divulging their sex life (or lack thereof) to their colleagues. Honestly, wtf.

*Appreciate this is probably a bit reductive to those who are asexual but hopefully you get my point

Totally. With a side order of, 'see, just like a cis woman's'.

Academic or not, this seems like something only someone obsessed with genitalia would do.

Tell me OP, is the person organizing/running it “trans”? If so, I’d like to bet one of the models will be of his own bits.