Scottish universities drop out of Stonewall equality league tables following ‘gender’ row

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Scottish universities drop out of Stonewall equality league tables following ‘gender’ row
The University of Edinburgh is among several institutions to decline to submit an application for this year's rankings

By
Daniel Sanderson,
SCOTTISH CORRESPONDENT
10 January 2022 • 7:51pm
Leading Scottish universities have dropped out of controversial equality league tables compiled by LGBT lobby group Stonewall, following claims that participation can inhibit academic freedom and open debate about transgender issues.

Despite trumpeting its participation in previous editions of the “equality index” as a sign of its commitment to diversity and inclusion, the University of Edinburgh has quietly declined to submit an application for this year’s rankings following a series of controversies, The Telegraph can reveal.

Other institutions which have taken part in previous editions but have shunned the scheme this year include the University of Glasgow, the University of the West of Scotland and Robert Gordon University. The latter two confirmed that they are reviewing future participation.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/10/scottish-universities-drop-stonewall-equality-league-tables/

Hurrah!!!!!

The more organisations rethink this nonsense, the better.

Excellent news!

Woah, that is a shocker I thought Scotland was a lost cause.

Great news

Stick that in your sporran and patronise and ignore your electorate about it, Wee Nippy. Absolutely Fandabidozi.

(Apologies for all the Scots stereotyping, but... it's Sturgeon!)

Excellent, dd is going to UofE next year unless there is an offer from one of the other two universities she is still waiting to hear from, so this is very welcome news.

Can’t believe this! Excellent news!

Great news!
Another step in the right direction.

@StopStartStop

The more organisations rethink this nonsense, the better.

Absolutely.

This is great news!

Wee Gender Krankie will be livid

I’m delighted and surprised by Edinburgh. They have been absolutely appalling.

But are they paid up members still?

Good!

Worth keeping an eye out on whether they're doing the lgbt youth Scotland charter though

www.qmu.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2021/20211217-lgbt-silver-charter-award/

www.lgbtyouth.org.uk/the-lgbt-charter/lgbt-charter-awardees/

The other thing is whether the changes to Athena Swan mean it's now a cheaper way to perform trans inclusion- one that overtly erases the work previously done by athena Swan for women's rights.

Yes Athena Swan questions are now based on gender not sex, i.e. useless.

It seems to centre anyone other than women - so gutting for female academics who invested so much time into it previously

@HoyaSaxa

I’m delighted and surprised by Edinburgh. They have been absolutely appalling.

Same! Really taken aback, really pleased.

In the Times:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/b95035b4-7332-11ec-89e9-22d3d9c31ba2?shareToken=439f72fd681c78e3919b1722cb817723

@KittyLeMew

Wee Gender Krankie will be livid

Wee Gender Krankie

Excellent news. Best of all an explicit acknowledgement that participation threatens open and free exchange of ideas.

It's all we need. Once we can ask questions and discuss all this openly it's the beginning of the end (although the rowback may take quite a long time).