We're about to be investigated

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Call for Applications: Consultancy on UK Radical Anti-Gender Organizing | GATE
gate.ngo/anti-gender-uk-consultancy

The main goal of this consultancy is to increase international awareness on current challenges posed by radical anti-gender movements to trans people’s human rights in the United Kingdom. Its objectives include:

Mapping radical anti-gender movements in the UK.
Identifying key radical anti-gender approaches to trans issues in the UK.
Analyzing the real and potential impact of radical anti-gender organizing on trans people’s human rights in the UK.
Identifying key entry points for international solidarity.
Scope of Work and Deliverables
The consultant will:

Engage with GATE’s team on anti-gender organizing.
Produce an expert and accessible paper on radical anti-gender organizing against trans people in the UK.

Maya's thread on Twitter deals with funding of this org and it's origins.
twitter.com/MForstater/status/1322679833411944449?s=09

Ah. So basically an investigation into women's rights movements and how to stop them.

It's almost funny.

I have a book on my mantlepiece, “The Darkening Age”. Something about that title seems scarily resonant.

That is very interesting isn’t it. What are they going to do when they realise just who it is that is arguing for upholding women’s rights. That it is not the group they think. I did like the inclusion of indigenous people. Of the UK? Should I get my dna done to see what my lineage is?

Looking at their website, I feel certain that this will be a very evidence-based inquiry and the outcome won’t be at all predetermined by any ideological position. Not at all.

They are encouraging indigenous British people to apply, which is unusual. Normally they just seek to encourage minority groups.

Indigenous people in a U.K. context 😂 just shows how not based in reality this approach is!

No nouveaux Normans.

Wonder who’s funding GATE....

They are encouraging indigenous British people to apply, which is unusual.

Very unusual. Almost like they don't particularly want input from ethnic and religious minorities.

Drat. I'm Viking descended which counts me right out.

I hear there's quite a lot of Neolithic DNA in the population around Cheddar Gorge, if that's helpful?

@Cwenthryth

Indigenous people in a U.K. context 😂 just shows how not based in reality this approach is!

Latinx people in a UK context doesn’t exactly sound right either!

So they're interviewing the Celts, the Normans, Saxons. Pretty sure the vikings and possibly Romans could be included as well. I mean I'm not sure how far back they want to go as I'm positive that there were tribes predating the Celts. However, I'm pretty sure they all knew what a woman was

Ah that's what I was thinking of! Thank you. In that case I have that Neolithic DNA accordingly to my mum and uncle who did DNA tests @MichelleofzeResistance but I also have Celtic and Anglo Saxon blood. Does that mean I meet their criteria?

One of their staff is
Ellen Murray
Project Coordinator for "Gender Ideology"
Ellen (she/her) is a Northern Irish trans human rights activist specializing in healthcare rights, accessibility, and international human rights mechanisms.

She is the Executive Director of TransgenderNI, and an advisor to the UK Government on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Sex Characteristics (SOGISC) issues, and has provided advocacy consultancy, human rights input and accessibility expertise to a myriad of national and international NGOs and mechanisms.

Just looking for TransgenderNI and got an ad for Senior Cross Dressing dating. ..Senior??? I'm cut to the bone......

@AnyOldPrion

Wonder who’s funding GATE....

US government, Arcus foundation, OSF among others. Wellspring Philanthropic Trust, who I've not heard of before, give them loads.

They have LOTS of money. IRS docs here:

gate.ngo/about-us

See now I would consider my views on gender to be quite mainstream and small c conservative.

I'm not the radical.

@GCAcademic

Looking at their website, I feel certain that this will be a very evidence-based inquiry and the outcome won’t be at all predetermined by any ideological position. Not at all.

In fairness, I can't claim to be indigenous as I suspect my ancestors came over in a long boat circa 1100 years ago.

Oh. Ellen.

If you desperately need drugs without your parents knowing then contact me Ellen.

Joins Michelle on the Viking bench.

Fancy a rendition of the Horrible Histories' Simon and Garfunkel parody?

Indigenous people?

Nigel Farage will be pleased.

I'm identifying as Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni today. Do they want my opinion?

Fancy a rendition of the Horrible Histories' Simon and Garfunkel parody?

Soon as I've sorted this herring.

If this group is openly about finding out about, stopping, and internationally mobilising against women's rights and bloody women who won't surrender them, can we now be honest about this being a plain sight men's rights movement?

Because it isn't TM finding women having rights a bit of a spanner in the works.

Here's some of the pre-reading.

@merrymouse

Indigenous people?

Nigel Farage will be pleased.

Yes, indeed. It all seems a bit far right, this focus on indigenous Britons. Ironic.