committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/17408/pdf/
The University of Edinburgh says the same (I've copied and pasted, including the poor punctuation): "Countries, such as Norway have no legal age limit, depending rather on parental support until a child reaches a point where they can make independent legal decisions. This would be the best approach."
Another gem from the University of Edinburgh: "We have experienced first-hand, the hostility of anti-trans rhetoric that pervades the UK media on our campus. Much of this rhetoric is veiled under the guise of protecting women’s rights, and by women – they mean cisgender women, not trans women. The rhetoric ranges from blatantly transphobic statements on stickers on our campus such as ‘Women don’t have penises’ to more subtle denial of trans gender identities and questioning the inclusion of trans women in women-only spaces like public toilets."
So there you have it. One of the UK's most prestigious universities apparently mandates the belief that stating "women don't have penises" is blatant transphobia.
And it goes on: "It appears to be founded on over- simplified and out-dated assumptions of what being a woman is, i.e. you are only a woman if you were born with a vagina and have XX chromosomes. We cite these assumptions as out-dated and over-simplified because sex is more complex than simply XX=female and XY=male. Biological sex is comprised of chromosomes, hormones and anatomy all of which can vary in numerous ways, making biological sex a spectrum not a binary. Furthermore, your biological sex, while they way it manifests can inform other people’s gendered assumptions about your identity, it does not dictate your own innate sense of your gender identity."
Eh? Do these people really not understand the meaning of the word spectrum? Or binary, come to that?
I've read Kathleen Stock talking about universities and Stonewall. But how deep does that really go? And is UCU a Stonewall Diversity Champion or just caught in the backwash?