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

Aesopfable ahh, ok I see what you mean. Maybe they have so few from the Indian subcontinent that they don’t think of them as a demographic or of including them in the demographic? A US citizen will explain it I expect.

Anyway clearly this investigative group haven’t done much investigating on anything about the UK yet so they really do need help.

Radical anti-gender movements against trans people include, for example, so-called “feminist” and/or LGB individuals, organizations and networks. Currently, the UK has some of the most active radical anti-gender organizing against trans people.

Is the endless repetition of "against trans people" meant to have a brainwashing effect? Gender ideology harms trans people along with everyone else. And what's a real feminist, if women defending women's rights are only "so-called feminists"?

No sane adult is going to answer a job ad like that, because the employers sound deranged.

But I have to admit to a little thrill of pride, reading Currently, the UK has some of the most active radical anti-gender organizing. We're not top of many leagues, but that's one we can all be proud of. And I'm glad to see our old LGB mates right in there with us "so-called feminists".

I assume that's because they don't actually care about the people involved Aesop. They are just playing Woke Bingo.

Like the way teenagers jump on the latest key words whatever they may be.

Their list is a mess by any measure. Black with a capital B, Asians and Latinx, which are all apparently a different thing to "people of color" (sic). Maybe I am missing something but I thought POC was American for not white.

In any case, I don't think the US woke quite get their heads around the normality of multi-generational mixed race coupledom in the UK. As this thread shows even as far back as Neanderthals. The idea of race as fixed and inextricably linked to social class is not so strong in Europe. They don't get it. Their failure to edit their valid oppression list shows it.

@BernardBlackMissesLangCleg

I know RuffleCrow, I'm old enough to remember when being anti-gender was considered de riguer for a feminist, rather than being thrown around as some kind of euphamistic insult

feminists are by definition anti gender you nitwits!

yup yup and yup... when did the nitwits become a protected category?

Is it a typo?

Do they mean ingenious? Or indignant?

I'm DISGUSTED! this 'investigation' of our uppityness is only going to last 6 WEEKS!!! I'm outraged surely our swilling evil will take at least A YEAR??? Do I need to redouble my efforts? Order more stickers? How can we turn around this appalling slur on us?

@thinkingaboutLangCleg your last post reminded me of this that I saw earlier.

No sane adult is going to answer a job ad like that, because the employers sound deranged.

Sadly I spent some of this weekend interacting with a woman so indoctrinated to believe TWAW and are the most oppressed people ever that she would probably consider^^ them perfectly sensible.

Under the Equality Act are you even allowed to suggest certain racial groups (white, black, Latin) apply but not other racial groups unless you can prove that they are under-represented in your organisation? Or perhaps Gate are currently over-represented by blind Asian lesbians?

Why are intersex people on the list at all.

Oooh, I hope someone with a DSD applies. Very hard for them to say no. Maybe Claire Graham? She ticks the boxes of skills, experience and having a DSD.

I assume that's because they don't actually care about the people involved

Almost as though they don’t care about tackling the ‘root’ causes of inequality.

Hmm, what’s that other word you can use use meaning ‘root’... 🤔

'organising against' - er, speaking up to defend their rights. In actual fact.

Really quite extreme distortion of fact, reality and perception going on here, and it has to be considered why this extremely twisted view of other people having rights and needing to be considered too has become regarded by whoever wrote this as a hostile, aggressive act?

Because it's prejudiced to an extent that's tipped from unfortunate to really quite questionable as to its acceptability.

Postit - one picture worth 1000 words

Why do deaf people get a special call out? No pun intended.

@PostItJoyWeek

Why are intersex people on the list at all.

Oooh, I hope someone with a DSD applies. Very hard for them to say no. Maybe Claire Graham? She ticks the boxes of skills, experience and having a DSD.

Baroness Emma Nicholson can apply as she has a hearing disability.

Oh and "color" is spelt "colour" in the UK.

Why do deaf people get a special call out? No pun intended.

I think because whoever wrote the ad is making a reference to this distinction:

www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/opinion/d_or_d_whos_deaf_and_whos_deaf.shtml

I can hardly believe that on MN of all sites, so little regard is given to the Beaker People

Do better.

Beakerphobes!

[quote merrymouse]Why do deaf people get a special call out? No pun intended.

I think because whoever wrote the ad is making a reference to this distinction:

www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/opinion/d_or_d_whos_deaf_and_whos_deaf.shtml[/quote]
But why people with a hearing disability or who want to be part of the Deaf community as opposed to people with sight or speech impairment who don't get a special mention?

@Needmoresleep - I too have shipwrecked Armada DNA in the mix .

My credentials are in tatters.

Beaker people were immigrants with their decorated clay vessels...

[quote BasiliskStare]@Needmoresleep - I too have shipwrecked Armada DNA in the mix .

My credentials are in tatters.[/quote]
That gives you solid Latinx credentials, doesn't it?

Anyone who believes TWAW won't have any analytical skills worth speaking of. But thanks to Dunning Kruger they won't realise that. And probably those employing them won't realise it too.

In any case, I don't think the US woke quite get their heads around the normality of multi-generational mixed race coupledom in the UK. As this thread shows even as far back as Neanderthals. The idea of race as fixed and inextricably linked to social class is not so strong in Europe. They don't get it. Their failure to edit their valid oppression list shows it.

Yes.