Kathleen Stock. Now they are writing academic papers about how terfy she is

[Birdsweepsin]

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09612025.2022.2147915

In this article I write on the feminist rift within University culture and the wider impact it has had in the British media landscape. I will chronicle the case of Kathleen Stock and its reporting in the media principally through a focus on a selection of particularly relevant articles in the UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph as a newspaper closely aligned with gender critical and UK Conservative government thinking.

OK, no worries. So a dispassionate look at both sides, considering media bias goes both ways, hey?

I want to consider Stock as a totemic figure for a trans-hostile media, and discuss the way her case has been used to spread misinformation around universities, and trans people. My focus here is on trans women as those on the receiving end of most gender critical hostility.

Oh. Sigh.

the journal information says that all research articles are peer reviewed.

But viewpoints are noted as different in kind. It’s basically like a glorified book review in terms of its academic significance.

I'm a historian. So embarrassed that this could get into print in my discipline. Was considering publishing in the WHR, but not any more.

I can only assume that Deborah didn't send Kathleen a copy as a courtesy, as I think Kathleen would have been quite scathing. I wonder if she or any prominent GC feminists have even seen it because there are no critical comments on her thread, as I said, just fawning.

Perfect!

love this!😁

"I consider the national platform given to Stock, but not to trans people and trans inclusive feminists.."
Dear God, we're drowning in "trans inclusive" language, policy and practice from every bloody captured police force, institution and government body with women eradicating language & policies everywhere, child safeguarding blown apart, women's sport handed over to mediocre men and vulnerable women sharing prison cells / hospital wards with rapists / sex offenders.

Yet she thinks trans people don't have a national platform? An enraging idiot. 😡

The trans isomer of sodium hyponitrate is more common than the cis-isomer. And less reactive.

sodium itself can reduce alkynes to trans-alkynes. You’d use a different material
to produce cis-alkynes.

All of which is about as useful to the topic of how poorly kathleen stock has been treated as the neo-concept of transodium.

Honestly, inventing a new bullshit word is not the pinnacle of academic achievement.

Friends with the awful Cllr Claire Udy (who participated in the abusive protest at women attending the FiLiA conference in Portsmouth), here asking her advice how to use terfblocker.

twitter.com/topgirls/status/1450751999704715266?s=20&t=cO-hx-1pCS4Y9zPzveVO9A

grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/claire-udy-goodbye-and-good-riddance

And here is Deborah herself describing attending the protest:

At the event the organisers had chalk for people to use (a mistake in hindsight?) and it appears that there were a few misogynist drawings, and an offensive banner addressed to trans exclusionary feminists. I was there on Saturday morning and did not see them, and a colleague of mine was there all day and also did not see them. That is not to say that they were not there, but they did not capture my experience; I saw people writing “trans rights are human rights”, and banners expressing support for trans rights. Nonetheless, the few offensive images are what gender critical feminists seized on and these drawings flooded my Twitter feed, those of my friends who attended, and their social media posts in an attempt to invalidate those who wanted to express their support for trans rights in a peaceful way.

How dare they!

www.starandcrescent.org.uk/2021/11/08/opinion-why-i-was-at-the-fly-the-flag-event-in-portsmouth/

Oh dear oh dear

The apparent dangers posed by integrating trans women in women’s spaces is unevidenced with gender critical feminists seeking to create a trend out of very rare exceptions. In a review of Stock’s book, Adam Briggle, academic philosopher and father to a transgender son, points to an evidential flaw in this reasoning: ‘This is a motif for Stock: point to a handful of problematic cases and blend them with sexual dimorphism to derive a sweeping trans-exclusionary policy recommendation’.31

when are they going to get it? Firstly it isn't very rare exceptions, they are coming in thick and fast these days. And even if they are numerically statistically rare exceptions, we still have no way of telling the good guy saying he's a woman from the bad guy who says he's a woman so the only way to be safe is to say no to all men in women's spaces.

I mean it's not fucking rocket science even that badly informed writer should be able to get her head round that.

And it's not Fucking unevidenced she's obviously never read the it never happens thread on here.

She writes about the vile misogynistic abuse to other women as if it's completely irrelevant to the protest.

Yet, gender critical feminism does present a cause for concern. In a blog post Alison Phipps notes this concern by the Institute of Race Relations over the links between gender critical feminism and the far right.61 However gender critical feminists identify politically, it is clear that their viewpoints are being co-opted by those who do not have feminist interests at heart. While I am not accusing gender critical feminist of being racists, some of their allies are, and this should worry Universities who claim to prioritise equality, diversity and inclusion.

I wonder if the person who wrote this asks every single person who agrees with her on transwomen are women what their politics are, what their views on abortion and the rights of women are? What religion they are? wether they've been an active member off the BBC at any point etc.

I bet she bloody doesn't. And why the fuck should we? Just because I happen to agree with some far right people and some fundamentalist Christians in some aspects of the trans gender argument doesn't mean I agree or endorse anything else they say. So why the hell should it worry universities?

twitter.com/MisAlchemy/status/1450743767661780995?s=20&t=cO-hx-1pCS4Y9zPzveVO9A

Is this a PhD student?

Much feminism. Or feminisms.

Of the BBC? I meant to say the BNP!

However gender critical feminists identify politically, it is clear that their viewpoints are being co-opted by those who do not have feminist interests at heart

That’s actually a very accurate description of tras/trans ideology. It is being co-opted by anti-feminist woman-haters. Many of its sympathisers openly threaten feminists with violence and rape. Have they not noticed?

Many of its sympathisers openly threaten feminists with violence and rape. Have they not noticed?

You would think, but though she knows this happens, as demonstrated by my links, she and her friends think it's just boys having fun and we're deliberately making a meal of it.

How can Deborah get it so wrong? It’s bizarre and her work would not have withstood the scrutiny my Dds BA essays got. How embarrassing for her Uni.

How about she focuses on The Guardian next? Their reporting on the Wii Spa incident and JK Rowling have been interesting. And the treatment of their own journalists who know their biological realities. She could quote and argue against herself.

No@SockGoddess it appears not, they seem to think that anyone that utters TWAW is pure of heart and has identical thoughts on all matters. It's really quite shocking that they are unable to see the bad faith actors in their midst that are causing most of the shit show, that actually don't give a fuck about transgender rights but are loving the chance to have a go at women in public.

Speak in the "correct" lingo, point fingers at the "correct" targets, and you'll get published.

Boghossian, Pluckrose and Lindsay literally proved this to be true:

www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/arts/academic-journals-hoax.html

And academics wonder why the general public don't respect them. Maybe because a degree in Film Studies and Gender Studies are about as useful as a marzipan dildo in the real world.

We could always flood her twitter feed with all the evidence of why women need safe spaces from TW?

Indeed! Wikipedia redirects from transodium to "the natural apocarotenoid dicarboxylic acid" crocetin:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocetin

Judging by the construction of her paper, I don't think evidence and logic are her forté...