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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

Maybe lots of excellent journalists and researchers have a sideline in sex work? Perhaps Evan Davis goes on the cams at night for extra cash when Dragon's Den is off air?

I have a sexy German accent but don't call me a Saxon, I'm a Frank.

Franks, Jutes, Angles, whatever. All you Saxons look the same to me. Go back to northern France, northern Germany and southern Denmark you short haired, trouser wearing sausage eaters.

Johnny come latelies who only turned up after the last ice age due to lax entry regulations.

It was empty when we found it with the front door wide open. I think the previous occupiers couldn't pay the mortgage. They left it in a right state- great big henges just lying about the place, wolves and forests everywhere.

We spent ages picking a decore scheme for Londinium, only for the Romans to swap the curtains to purple.

@PostItJoyWeek

Maybe lots of excellent journalists and researchers have a sideline in sex work? Perhaps Evan Davis goes on the cams at night for extra cash when Dragon's Den is off air?

Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner.

@MichelleofzeResistance

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?

You've cheered me right up @Michelleofzeresistance: Thank you xxx

Surely mimmymum's done enough Twitter threads she can send them, job done.

And don't get me started on the Romans- what did they ever do for us?

"Which is nobody's fault, not even the Romans..."

They are doing a big investigation into why UK feminists object to things like male rapists in women's prisons?

And they are looking for someone, what. White? Not just a bit white but very very white?

I have a disability and practically glow in dark. When I get my legs out on holiday people have to shield themselves from the reflected sunlight. I could be in with a shout?

No mention of homosexuals in the list of welcome applicants.

Analyzing the real and potential impact of radical anti-gender organizing on trans people’s human rights in the UK.

I'll make popcorn.

@PostItJoyWeek

Random oppression hierarchy on show.

Why doesn't it mention Asians? There are way more of them here.

This is why trying to apply American social justice models to the rest of the world doesn't work.

Yeah, they also want applications from Hispanic US citizens, which is what I believe Latinx means.

Bit odd for a UK research job.

Do British Muslim women not get to say why they need single sex spaces?

Homosexual people aren't mentioned as same sex attraction is somewhere on a scale between problematic and bigoted.

I hope Maya applies.

I am confident a male Lantinx sex worker will be able to tell them every thing they need to know about women's groups in the UK. There's been dozens of them at meetings here.

@Beamur

If this is just a cut and paste from US equivalents they're going to find the concept of indigenous a bit tricky to apply here. Don't they know that's a shade alt-right in concept here?

Lazy, culturally illiterate tosspots.

Maya's thread makes some very interesting links, including around their funding.

@DocMarteens

Do British Muslim women not get to say why they need single sex spaces?

No. They are non-people who need to abandon their own belief system for someone else's belief system. If they refuse then they don't deserve to mix with others outside the home. Conservative religious Muslim women should also get on with being properly liberated women by doing more sex work, dressing in pornified clothing and having more casual sex (with men, lesbians can fuck off).

Oh, I’m right in here 👍. My mother was 100% Celtic and my father was 75% Indigenous American.....don’t know about the other 25% but I bet it was indigenous to somewhere 😊

From an academic perspective, I can't get my head around this.
If they're asking for someone with possibly a journalistic background or similar, why would they have research publications?
Am I misunderstanding what 'research' is, or are they looking for someone in particular, or hoping for a right-on hatchet job?

Also, the logic of it doesn't work. It isn't really beginning with questions but rather conclusions eg 'anti gender radicals' are impacting on transgender people's human rights.
I mean, is that established?

Indigenous seems to be the new trendy word that has replaced 'diasporic'- both generally used out of context in a way that makes my teeth itch.

Indigenous works in an Aussie/Canadian/US context. Not so much here, especially as the far right use it as a dogwhistle for 'anyone who isn't white' even if they were born here.

www.txstate.edu/philosophy/resources/fallacy-definitions/Begging-the-Question.html

When someone coming here from the states asked me to connect her with indigenous groups, I had a bit of a chat with her and she ended up contacting gypsy/traveller organisations.
I sort of know what they mean.
But it isn't the right word really.

or are they looking for someone in particular, or hoping for a right-on hatchet job?

Oh no, they would never do that.

Well the list of who they welcome applications from shows that zero thought has gone into it, which isn't a good start for the activity they want to fund....