Thackray Museum statement on SC ruling

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Saw this statement on LinkedIn. Wonder how many other institutions are going to pipe up saying that their world view trumps the SC. They also reference the not consulted line. Didn't Amnesty Int present the 'trans argument?'

STATEMENT FROM THE THACKRAY MUSEUM OF MEDICINE FOLLOWING THE SUPREME COURT GENDER RULING

April 24, 2025
The Thackray Museum of Medicine is a safe space where the trans community has always been, and will always be, a welcomed part of our family – through our staff, volunteers, co-producers, the communities we share our building with, our visitors, our professional networks and beyond.
We are disappointed with the Supreme Court’s ruling regarding the legal definition of a ‘woman’ as we believe it has further discriminated against and alienated minority communities, and further eroded equality for all people and everyone’s basic human right to be treated equitably.
We stand with our friends at the Vagina Museum who rightly comment on the judgment that: “sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation and other characteristics related to sexual identity exist in various different combinations and their relationship to one another is never clear cut. What is clear to us is that everyone, regardless of their body parts, are deserving of human rights, dignity and the power to identity as they wish to.”
As a museum family, we believe that sex and gender are a spectrum; this a position supported by science. Where people choose to sit on that is their choice and it should be respected. The Thackray is not here to provide authoritative definitions but we are here to provide an open, respectful, safe and inclusive platform for conversation, where trans people are represented in our collection and through our activities.
The trans community have been excluded from consultation around the Supreme Court’s decision which in our eyes has increased ambiguity and not offered clarity. We will not exclude the trans community and our building and our facilities remain open to all. We stand with them in allyship and will continue to embrace and represent minority communities through the lens of medicine, wellbeing and healthcare, so that people can see themselves represented and feel included, to enable a better understanding of each other, and to help shape a better tomorrow for everyone.

Skeletons are transphobic as they refuse to adapt to a person’s gender identity. They obviously had to go…

Seriously though, if they are that captured by the ideology, I wonder if it became problematic for them to be saying “this is a male skeleton - note the size of the pelvis compared to the female, etc”.

Honestly, I don’t know how they get out of bed in the morning having to face laws of nature that stubbornly refuse to conform to their loony world view.

A few years ago I visited the Natural History Museum in Oxford that had dedicated a huge room for a TQ exhibition for the season. The whole time I was there I didn't see anyone go into it.

Not to be defeated by this lack of interest from the transphobic public they sneakily inserted some gender woo into a few of the regular exhibits. My favourite being someone's gender support plushie they'd very generously loaned for display.

There's a Vagina Museum? Why though? Has any one been? Is there a Penis and Scrotum Museum too? Can anyone confirm? I'm not putting any of that into a search engine.

Why do they have a belief in Sex? It is either one or the other. Is the Thackray some sort of gender cult? Is it funded by public money? It really is time for all this utter shite to stop.

There’s a penis museum in Iceland apparently.

Seem to remember that the Vagina Museum went very pro trans (and it’s EDI policy still includes ‘gender’ as a protected characteristic).

I'm struggling - no really.... struggling not to recycle the old 'if they can put one man on the moon...' joke.
But oh dear, I lost:

'If they can put one penis in a museum, why can't they put them all there?'

A minority opinion, obviously..

DC used to like the Thackray when they were younger. We probably wouldn't be going there now they're late teens, so I suppose it is no loss to the Thackray that I say we shall not be darkening their doors with our insufficiently progressive "science" from now on.

They are an Arts Council National Portfolio Org and I’m sure that ACE are a little anxious right now about their own funding going forward, last thing they need is for one of their NPO’s to be openly flouting the law.

The Thackray Musuem of Quackray and here are the trustees many of whom are medics ! https://thackraymuseum.co.uk/about-us/people/

Presented without comment.

ACE have put out a surprisingly neutral statement about the Supreme Court judgement. Its probably too much to hope they will expect the organisations they fund to do the same.

I think my brain melted and started to trickle out of my ears halfway through reading that load of steaming manure.