Ties formally cut
Let’s have a round of applause for You Cee ELLLL.
University College London has become the first university to formally cut ties to the LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall, saying its membership of Stonewall’s programmes could inhibit academic freedom and discussion around sex and gender.
UCL announced that it would end its involvement with Stonewall’s workplace equality index, which rates employers on their policies, and its diversity schemes, following a recommendation from the university’s most senior academics.
“Following a period of debate within our community and careful consideration of the issues, UCL has now taken the decision that we will not re-join Stonewall’s diversity champions programme or make a submission to the workplace equality index,” UCL said in a statement.
The Nolan Report may also be due a round of applause, and above all so are the mouthy feminists, especially academics and journalists, who’ve been on the case for years.
Had to happen, sooner or later. What goes up must come down. My grandma told me all about that. She said it was Newton’s Law of Gravity.
Omar, that sounds suspiciously like physics essentialism to me. Are you some sort of absolutist who doesn’t believe things can go up if they identify as going up?
iknklast, you’ll be happy to know that physical dimensions are becoming a matter of identity rather than arbitrary assignation based on crude estimates.
(satire, but not by much)
Omar, I didn’t learn that from my Grandma, I learned it from Blood, Sweat, and Tears. ;)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SFEewD4EVwU
Oh, and if you squint your eyes a little, when the carnival music at the end of the song is playing, you can almost see the trans cultists twirling around jauntily in their full clown regalia. :P
What’s the format for strikethrough type here?
or something? Or the other ones, like bold, underline, or italic?Ha, looks like I found it.
” … formally cut ties to the
LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall ….”It’s a crime, what TQ+ have done to Stonewall.
Proudly the godless institution in Gower Street in the nineteenth century; equally godless in the twenty-first. Good for them!
@ Holms #3
Thank you for that pre-work-morning LOL, it was worth the 2 minutes to get there!
UCL’s reason for leaving gives me hope.
Earlier this year, the EHRC left the Stonewall Diversity Champions scheme and said it “did not constitute best value for money.” That seems like they just wanted out with the least trouble, with their real reasons unsaid.
After that, Ofcom and the BBC left the Diversity Champions scheme, citing their need for impartiality. I speculate they had legal advice that they must leave for that reason, but they did not go so far to say so. Still, I was happy they gave real reasons for leaving.
Now UCL has given another real reason for leaving — their concern about inhibition of academic freedom and discussion. They also talked about disagreement between their academic board and their committee for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI), and UCL did not simply let their EDI committee decide UCL policy.
I feel optimistic that these public examples of real reasons will help other organizations to debate internally, and find courage to say their real reasons publicly.