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www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7277867&page=2

Given all the talk about universities, I took a peep on The Student Room to see what their thoughts were on trans stuff.

It looks pretty TERFY to me.

It is frightening how so many have been cowed into silence by extremists. Everyone knows that it is nonsense but any individual that speaks up risks being ostracised.

Interesting, thanks for sharing

post no. 50:

Haven't properly looked into her tweets but most of the ''scandals'' I've heard about I remember that what she said was true and made sense. It's just those crazy, woke people who have taken it too far that become rabid and try to cancel her. But luv, there you are screaming at her with your dodgy piercing and greasy, ragged hair while she's one of the world's richest women and is smiling while delicately sipping tea in a china mug that costs more than your student debt and wearing clothes worth more than your parents' house.

😂😂well said that poster.😁

Interesting and heartening to read some reasonable views from young people. Thank you for posting.

There's usually quite a void between the views of students in general versus students who have the time and inclination to indulge in student politics.

In my experience of academia, I've found it's the egregiously "woke" students who rarely turn up to lectures/seminars and then, predictably, always cite mental health concerns as the reason why they require extensions on essays.

The ones with any critical thinking skills, though treading on eggshells so as not to deliberately upset their peers, tend to be fairly common sense in their assessment of this nonsense - particularly when it comes to gender ideology. Though it could be that it's a non-RG university thing. Fewer pompous middle class know-it-alls.

Wow! The kids are alright after all (well, most of them, judging from that particular thread).

The problem, as I saw it back when I was a student, was that general apathy about Student Union posts and politics meant that a small core of active people had a massively disproportional effect on what became policy.

Which is why you had SU buildings named after Winnie Mandela, for instance, even after all the execution and torture stuff had become public. It’s almost certainly why / how the whole TWAW philosophy has been able to gain so much traction.

Most people will hold more radical views in their earlier years, but I suspect the majority of students (if allowed to be anonymous) would hold the same misgivings as the older working population. But they’re either too busy working to pay their fees, having too much of a good time partying, too scared to publicly object, or too apathetic to put themselves up for election (or even to vote for those who do).

Thanks for posting this. Refreshing and heartening to see so many reasonable takes from students. A few posters saying the issues need more public debate. Yes. They certainly do.

100% this. Was true long before trans ideology.

That was an interesting read. Good to see that some young people are starting to question this, even if it is anonymously.
My main takeaway is that even those who oppose her use the terms "transphobic" and GC but I don't recall seeing anyone using "terf"! I find it amusing that they invented a slur to silence uppity women, but those very same women took it and claimed it as their own so emphatically that the twaw brigade have abandoned it!
On a more reflective note it strikes me that this is similar to the change from "no debate" to the grudging acceptance that this will never work. I've also noticed that my most trans rights supportive acquaintances have become much less vocal recently, I've not heard a thing, irl, about how "transphobes are attacking mermaids" over irrelevant stuff like safeguarding.