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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Advance HE's race charter / "ideology" compared to Stonewall

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ResisterRex · 14/05/2022 21:24

In the Telegraph. Of interest to this board is various things being pre-badged as out of bounds, leading to comparisons with Stonewall:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/05/14/government-denounces-egregious-wokery-mps-question-worth-university/

"A government source said of Advance HE: “They don’t get [government] money anymore but universities pay them. They use diversity to degenerate universities into the most egregious wokery.”"

"Brendan Clarke-Smith, a former member of the Commons education committee, added: “When institutions like Cambridge University are putting trigger warnings on the Little House on the Prairie, you know something’s going badly wrong on university campuses.

“Advance HE is doing exactly the same thing that Stonewall did – ramming through its toxic political ideology under the pretext of fighting for social justice. Universities should focus on providing value for money for students.”

The Race Equality Charter scheme is overseen by a governance committee whose chairman, David Richardson, an Advance HE board member, declared in an article in 2020 that “all universities perpetuate institutional racism”.

"On Saturday, Sir John Hayes, who chairs the Common Sense Group of MPs, said: “Be in no doubt, this is not merely brainless woke nonsense, it’s a sinister attempt to indoctrinate students and to turn places of light and learning into places dominated by darkness.

“Just as Stonewall has got itself and its warped ideology into every nook and cranny of the public sector, Advance HE has wormed its way into university campuses and all aspects of the higher education sector. I’ll be raising this with the secretary of state next week.”"

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zanahoria · 14/05/2022 21:35

Brendan Clarke-Smith, a former member of the Commons education committee, added: “When institutions like Cambridge University are putting trigger warnings on the Little House on the Prairie, you know something’s going badly wrong on university campuses."

Although the one where the blind school burns down was pretty harrowing

Musomama1 · 14/05/2022 21:46

@zanahoria lol 🤣🤣🤣

donquixotedelamancha · 14/05/2022 22:26

I had a quick browse of their resources and it's very different to Stonewalls stuff.

Stonewall's advice is very focused on performance and often completely lacking in substance whereas Advance HE resources are about practical actions to make HE more accessable to all.

There is a lot of buzz word management bollocks, but that's true of the whole sector. There was none that's actually meaningless.

I'm sure if I dig into it there will be the usual queer theory nonsense and mollycoddling in there somewhere because there is plenty of that amongst the type of people they are drawing on.

But I suspect these MP are being somewhat excessive in their criticism because they think all 'left wing' stuff is equally nonsense (not that I think AHE are remotely real left wing).

PermanentTemporary · 14/05/2022 22:39

I'm struck by the whiteness of the board... and am having trouble finding clear statements of what they do. But so far I can't find any factually incorrect statements. That would be the difference between the and Stonewall.

GCMM · 15/05/2022 10:30

Advance HE recently did a U turn on their advice to universities regarding gender ideology. Up until last year their advice had been that universities should not collect data on sex, only on gender identity. This year they have changed it to say data on sex should always be collected and on gender identity if/ when relevant.

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