No more puberty blockers for children from the NHS - reported in the Times!

[MrsOvertonsWindow]

This is massive - and long overdue

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/97ce2e81-2884-42f5-bb82-2a2778f2cc91?shareToken=9568e79f0683beea68ffe5e978b05a29

This whole thing will end up in textbooks of the future as an example of what happens when people stop thinking critically and/or just unthinkingly follow previously trusted and authoritative sources.

Let’s hope so. At the moment, these people are not letting go. They have committed to the nonsense, the lies, the cult. Careers and livelihoods, and never forgetting reduced women’s rights, depend on perpetuating the extreme ‘gender myths’.

The Cass report is a good start, but there’s a long long way to go in getting this fckwittery undone. We need to keep on keeping on. Hopefully to be supported by the gvt.

In my experience (I am very old and may well have been left behind by the passage of time) since PhDs are awarded by 'the University of Dublin' not by TCD, just as they are by 'the National University of Ireland' not by UCC, UCG or whatever, that is how people with doctoral degrees properly style themselves. Or indeed ourselves.

We still should be wary of waving them around as though they give us any authority outside our own subject area.

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WarriorN

SinnerBoy, this was published in an ethics journal, so probably captured too...

Oh good grief!

Head-Table Interface...

Ffs

Queering Data.

I think new thread needed

I can't right now, kids. If anyone else wants to pls go ahead!

This is a lecturer in EDUCATION

Does ‘Queering Data’ mean pulling numbers out of one’s backside?

I expect 'queering data' means fucking it up on purpose.

In a Lefebvrian way.

My first thought was the census. A classic example, shurely?

Yes definitely

"Changing the world it seems to describe."

Make the categories and people will fill them.

Seeks to describe.

I'm also measuring feet with a Clark's foot measurement thing and trying to work out what shoe size the big kid is

Possibly by destabilising the ontological grounds of soi-disant "real" numbers, using a digitally manifested/base ten system.

So now we have schools telling teens that they might not be male or female and lo!

Nonbinary genital surgery (surgical hermaphrodism?) is now funded by the state in Canada!

A Lefebvrian analysis, you say, Adam? God, I can't wait!!!*

*To pour a kettle full of boiling water on my lap.

Surely all the way up to base 11 if it's being queered?

I suppose it makes sense (to some) if you think of data sets as “spaces” (which seems to be Lefebvre’s thing. Disclaimer: I never heard of him until today). But that does boil down to fucking it up on purpose. It also makes it like invading women’s spaces.

Maybe 10.5.

Gotta include the decimal Demi sexuals.

I have a personal aversion to academics who do this.

Once you say: 'I am a Dr/Professor, therefore my arguments carry more credence than yours', you've a) have lost face. What you say - not your seniority or status - stands or falls on its own merits. b) you've made yourself look a tit because (see a). c. you're browbeating others, rather than robustly challenging what they have to say with an informed opinion of your own.

And this is particularly galling when it's seen done by a senior to a more junior academic to put them down. Especially when Sr Academic then says that anyone objecting to their lack of professionalism is doing so motivated by misogyny.

Yes, here's looking at you, Professor Alice Roberts.

😂

I’ll admit, when I saw Maynooth College and 'male homosociality' mentioned in the same paragraph, and being an Irishwoman of a certain vintage, I did have a bit of a titter and a flashback to Father Ted and Priest Chatback 😂

Huh?
Sorry, I thought my point was clear. It was to correct a factual error.
You wrote

"Except there is no such thing as University of Dublin. In Dublin there are universities and colleges. The largest in the country is University College Dublin. There is also DCU. Dublin City University. But no University of Dublin."

There is, in fact, a University of Dublin.
It has one college, Trinity College.

So you can discredit someone by saying they don't work there, or they are not qualified to make a point (which they very well may not be - though Dr Bohan does have a PhD in science and a diploma in statistics as well as being an artist).

Just don't say the university doesn't exist.

There is no factual error that you are correcting. On the signature list it should have stated Trinity College Dublin. Nobody but nobody has ever called it the University of Dublin.

Here is the CAO application list. (the only website that allows students doing their final exams to apply to Irish Universities and Colleges. Listed is Trinity. There is no University of Dublin.

Central Applications Office (cao.ie)

For UK readers, the Irish CAO = UK UCAS

So I'm really unclear as to what your point is. Either way, Bohan isn't a lecturer, he's an artist, as in paintings. He has a degree from Trinity which has zero to do with anything as regards medicalisation of young people. Which is the important point.

And he shouldn't even have been on the list. As it purports to be a list of academics.

So what is your actual point?

Bohan included his PhD, conferred by the University of Dublin in his signature. That is the correct wording. PhDs are not conferred by the college but by the university. It's the same with NUI.

Whether he was correct to use his (surely irrelevant in the context of signing the letter) PhD at all is another question, but he really did get it from the University of Dublin.

I didn't remember you were Irish. But indeed yes. For women like me Maynooth is pretty famous about priests and in particular homosexuality. No beef with that. As I couldn't care less who is gay.

Except the Catholic Church are hypocrites, but we knew that already.

Ironically speaking of that skit from Father Ted, it was co created by that amazing defender of women and children our own Graham Linehan/Glinner. And for a country that came so far, and threw off the shackles of the Catholic Church, how did the Trans Ideology come to take it's place. Happily that is changing now.