Never Forget, 19 year old LaVena Johnson who was found in her tent in Iraq in 2005. She had a broken nose, black eye, loose teeth, burns from a corrosive chemical on her genitals to cover evidence of rape, and a gunshot wound. The U.S. government ruled her death was a 'suicide.'
Things I didn't know till today: Stonewall was raided due to a law which meant patrons had to wear at least three items of "gender appropriate" clothing.
Maya Forstater's lawyer is arguing that it would be ok for someone at your work to say homosexual relationships are immoral.
That's what gender criticals are arguing for. Trans people have every right to say "we told you so".
People often say that GC activists are motivated by a contempt for women. I basically agree with this, but one rarely sees it spelt out as viciously as in this thread of purest misogynist hatred.
1. the BBC published an article with one named source, claiming cis lesbians felt pressured to have sex with trans women;
2. the named source turned out to be Lily Cade, a genocidal maniac;
3. the BBC article, therefore, depends on unnamed sources + maniac;
Hearing that Prof. Stock isn’t returning to Sussex. I hope that this doesn’t prevent the University from finally investigating what happened to Katie Tobin, Nathan Oseroff-Spicer, and all the other students whose lives and careers Prof. Stock tried to harm.
It's been an unusual career. Stock’s key interventions in recent years all served to erode protections of academic freedom, and to insist on a conservative notion of “free speech.” I doubt those ideas will earn her much cred outside of the Tory party, who already gave her an OBE