If you're gender-critical, I wondered what your experiences are at work? I'm an academic. The Vice Chancellor at my university is totally woke, unfurling rainbow flags on campus, and the like. The student newspaper is full of articles denouncing "transphobes". I do not discuss trans issues with my colleagues. A couple of my not-very-PC older male colleagues had a bit of a snigger when someone from the SU sent round a missive that signed off with his pronouns. But the women in the department seem to be very studiously not discussing any of this. I have shelved plans I had to teach a new module with a strong element of feminist analysis in it. I made that decision after the no-platforming of Greer. I realise this is cowardly of me, but I really do not want to become the subject of a witch-hunt as the job is already destroying my mental health. Universities are supposed to uphold the principle of freedom of speech, but you only have that luxury if you're willing to put up with the kind of shit that Greer has endured. My university is currently in the process of revising a statute that gives certain employment protections to academics. One of the major worries about this is that they could simply get rid of us for holding controversial views. When the university called a meeting about this, a professor in a medical field said that she worked on a drug that is only effective on biological females and she needed to be able to actually say this without fearing that any shitstorm that came down on the university from transactivists would result in her losing her job. I was shocked at the time that she could think that things could come to this, but having since seen some social media transactivism at work, I now completely understand her concerns. I'm so pissed off to find myself working in a University and unable to speak openly about my feminist viewpoints. It's like living in a third-world oppressive regime. I feel that some of this is my own fault for not daring to put my head above the parapet. Just wondering what other people's experiences are?

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