NUS Trans Conference

[Shetheyhim]

So was just looking at NUS website to see if there was any news on Jess Bradley (nothing posted yet but their profile is still there) Wanted to see who was the LGBT+ Officer (Women’s Place) and saw it was someone called Eden Ladley. News on the site about a NUS Trans Conference this month so went over to their Twitter and saw that bursaries were available for Transwomen and transpeople of Colour to attend... but no mention of Transmen at all (although I suppose they are obviously entitled to bursaries if they’re not white) Someone has asked whether Transmen are entitled to a bursary but as of 23hrs later there hadn’t been a reply. Is it just a typo do you think?

Queering stem?

Another term for it is Lysenkoism.

Where pseudoscience pretends to be science, lysenkoism aims at attacking the legitimacy of science itself, usually for political reasons.

lysenkosim.

Which ended well for all concerned ...

Queer theory says everything is opinion
STEM subjects say there’s an objective, describeable reality. Thus the scientific method itself is a threat to queer theory and TRA ideology.

Expect big attacks on science

How are they affording all of this - I thought the NUS was in huge financial difficulties?

www.theguardian.com/education/2018/nov/02/national-union-of-students-faces-bankruptcy

Which ended well for all concerned ...

Sakharov on Lysenko seems resonant:

“He is responsible for the shameful backwardness of Soviet biology and of genetics in particular, for the dissemination of pseudo-scientific views, for adventurism, for the degradation of learning, and for the defamation, firing, arrest, even death, of many genuine scientists.”

Just a wee insight into the world on twitter today...

“Disappearing lesbians: Gendered Intelligence survey of 40 young people using their group in 2015 found that 0 identified as lesbian. GI (founded out of London FTM in 2009) overwhelmingly attracts young natal women.”

I remember when terms like ‘bi-curious’ was a joke...

WTAF is pancuddly?

Is that furry fetish or le creuset fetish?

Homoflexible? Pancuddly?

at le creuset fetish.

Surely these bursaries are illegal? Can they be challenged?

Now much as I live my coppper bottom pans...

I'm there!!!
I'm "into men "
*ones with penises

So Oxford aren't allowed to give a female-only scholarship, yet the NUS are allowed to give a transwoman-only scholarship?

I just don't want my kids to go to university now. I don't want their heads being filled with this totalitarian bullshit

I shouldn't worry if you have taught them to think for themselves: my daughter is at goldsmiths and is gc.

So Oxford aren't allowed to give a female-only scholarship, yet the NUS are allowed to give a transwoman-only scholarship

Just a wee insight into the world on twitter today...

“Disappearing lesbians: Gendered Intelligence survey of 40 young people using their group in 2015 found that 0 identified as lesbian. GI (founded out of London FTM in 2009) overwhelmingly attracts young natal women.”

Christ that is truly terrifying: does that mean the missing lesbians are now transmen who identify as gay/het? Or are they literally back in the closet?

does that mean the missing lesbians are now transmen who identify as gay/het?

It may mean they are non binary bisexual/lesbians who don't use the word lesbian. Younger women seem to use queer or gay more from what I've seen.

Even if not requested

I haven't got any women's internal organs left. I also have a boob job. Can I now claim to be a trans woman and get all the stuff I should have had when I was just a crappy old woman?

No, no, no, Basghetti.

You are still transmisogyny-exempt because you are biologically female. The transmisogyny-exempts oppress those who suffer from transmisognyny.

Which means that you are still the oppressor to these white, middle-class blokes. And always will be. Do you think you can just identify out of your oppressor status? Check your privilege please.

Can I self ID as ‘the oppressor’ and have some fun then?