Commitment to submission
Another university puts out another “statement” full of wild generalizations that can’t possibly be obeyed without creating total havoc.
Trans and Gender Diverse Community
The University is committed to being a Trans-inclusive institution that champions diversity and celebrates the gender identities of students and staff. The University will at no time discriminate against people on the grounds of their gender identity or gender expression. We seek to provide a positive learning and working environment free from discrimination, harassment, or victimisation.
How, I wonder, does the university go about “celebrating the gender identities of students and staff”? And why gender identities in particular? What about all the other precious identities?
Promoting and supporting the diverse identities at the University not only creates an environment where students and staff feel supported but also have the confidence to achieve their full potential.
Is that true? What about the diverse identities of, say, lesbians who don’t want to partner with men who say they are women?
Statement of Support
University of Hertfordshire statement, 2023:
“Considering the ongoing coverage in the media and an intensification of transphobia and transmisogyny in our culture, we would like to reiterate our support for and solidarity with all our trans and gender diverse staff, students and alumni at the University of Hertfordshire.
We are fully committed to equality of opportunity for all our community and will not tolerate transphobia or transmisogyny or any kind of discrimination towards our trans staff or students.
Define “transphobia.” Define “transmisogyny.” Define “any kind of discrimination towards our trans staff or students.”
We believe everyone has the right to live and be respected for their gender identity, and should always feel comfortable presenting themselves to the world in a way that matches how they self-identify.
So a huge tall man has “the right” to be respected for his “gender identity” as a dainty pretty laydee and should always feel comfortable presenting himself to the world that way? No matter what? Why? Please explain. Not reiterate or assert or announce; explain.
We are committed to promoting an inclusive culture at the University where everyone can thrive in a safe, supportive and welcoming environment that’s free from bullying, harassment or discrimination.
Well that’s just nonsensical. How can female people “thrive in a safe, supportive and welcoming environment that’s free from bullying, harassment or discrimination” when the environment contains men who must be “respected for their gender identity” as women?
News flash: if you order female people to pretend that men are women then you are making it impossible for those female people to thrive in a safe, supportive and welcoming environment that’s free from bullying, harassment or discrimination. Absolutely impossible. There is no route out of this maze. If women are forbidden to know which people are men then women are in danger.
As a member of Stonewalls Diversity Champions programme, we have committed to submit for the Workplace Equality Index which will help the University to advance equality of opportunity and develop an inclusive culture for our LGBTQ+ community.
Well that’s a frank admission. They have committed to submit, they say. Yes you certainly have, at the expense of your female students and staff.
Not to mention at the expense of knowledge. How can biology teachers properly teach biology if they can’t teach properly about men and women? How can history and sociology teach about the fight for women’s rights? How can any department, with a straight face, stand up and acknowledge that some of their male students are actually women?
And if you want to see bullying and harassment, try looking at the trans side. They are masters of it.
If it doesn’t involve canapés and a decent wine selection, I’m out.
And why? Are these people incapable of organizing a party for themselves? Why does everyone else have to do the work for them?
Neglecting all the campus Napoleons in favour of all the campus Hitlers.
Oh no! Our backroom manipulation is being exposed to the scrutiny and questioning that doing it in secret was supposed to avoid! Notice that with “transmisogyny” the concern is about TiMs. Must protect the men.
Saying “No” to trans demands.
Respect is earned, not demanded. Hows about we respect sex too, hmmm? “Present” all you like, but stay the fuck out of women’s spaces.
Are all these splendidly upright statements put out by institutions of one kind or another all written by the same person?
No, it’s sheer coincidence that they all say exactly the same thing (in slightly different orders).
Imagine the pain and exhaustion of trying to think of new phrasing for the 7 thousandth iteration of “we pretend to believe men can be women and you have to pretend too or else.”
I’ve always thought the “and non-binary identities are valid” afterthought/caboose added to “TWAW, TMAM” mantra was a sad and pathetic sop. It’s near universal use alerted me to the constant copy/paste from Trans Headquarters communiqués. Mustn’t deviate from approved, orthodox formulation.
They are acting like husbands. Entitled ones. Ones that expect the ‘little woman’ to take care of them.
I mentioned that we are going through the introduction of a DEI policy at my work. I submitted an extensive revision, along with my reasoning. Reaction so far hasn’t been too bad. Definitely some blow back and reputational tarnishing in some eyes, but the revised version since published for further discussion has a lot of wins. Sex is now added as a category, the ‘celebration’ language has been changed to one of acknowledgement and mutual respect for rights, and the several overlapping items around specific DEI training for individuals, groups, companywide have all been removed – apart from a requirement for unconscious bias training which I’m absolutely fine with. This now gets referred back to the special interest group that promoted it in the first place, along with HR, so we’ll see what the next round is like.