Glasgow Life using Sally Hines' book to inform changing room/toilet policy review

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twitter.com/GlasgowEquality/status/1144282981181399040

I've got a book about elves and pixies, I'll see if the local council need it to inform planning decisions...

FFS

Surely they should be using the law to inform their planning decisions...

A helpful diagram from Hines' book...

Wow that diagram is super offensive to intersex people! They are not a third fucking sex!

Sally Hines seems to think intersex = hermaphrodite.

I'm not sure that Hines actually thinks, at least not properly.

I find it terrifying that a city council would think her book should be used as some sort of guidance.

That diagram merely shows how thick she is, to be honest.

A timely review in THES:
Susan Matthews is unimpressed by an attempt to rethink our understanding of biological sex, gender and identity
www.timeshighereducation.com/books/gender-fluid-primer-21st-century-sally-hines-Thames-and-Hudson?fbclid=IwAR1noNM0Rqb6cpdOOYEIO4UNo6xztdlaHAsJX9vklVNupSBS6USZdXttrhg

How embarrassing for them. Do they consult Nigel Lawson about climate resilience measures?

Susan Matthews is unimpressed by an attempt to rethink our understanding of biological sex, gender and identity

I was just getting into that and the article just stops. Is it an excerpt from her book?

Isn't that diagram a bit binary?

Always. You need to register to read the review...which you can do for free.

Susan Matthews, with a GC background, is an interesting choice of reviewer. It was unlikely she would be impressed. A chance to get a different take on Hines' theories and arguments. Assuming Glasgow Life are up for an academic debate on gender theory (I assume not) this would provide some useful material.

The last sentence of the review.

This is a primer of postmodern dogma served up as scripture rather than a balanced introduction to a conflicted debate.

Not something that Glasgow Life should be using to inform policy.

Transgender Trend have done a Twitter thread about Susan Matthews’ review (handy if you don’t want to register with TES!)

twitter.com/threadreaderapp/status/1145081354259980288?s=21