I listened into this webinar just out of interest, the ‘abolition movement’ isn’t strictly my niche, however I was disturbed enough by what they had to say to feel it worth posting about. If you didn’t know, abolitionists want to destroy all policing services and remove punishments for criminals, though for some time they have been scratching their heads how to square this aim with their adjacent cosily-named ‘gender-based violence’ schtick. As we all know, the crimes of rape, sexual abuse and domestic violence, are overwhelmingly committed by men, with women largely the victims. To solve some of the problems around this issue, the UK prison abolitionist squad has developed a booklet to shove at people when anyone might question them about why they felt someone like Wayne Couzens should escape the criminal justice system.
Category: Academics
Who’s afraid of gender?
On the issue of ‘lexical capture’, they need to steal the language back that gender crits had stolen, the word ‘harmful’ for example, as in ‘puberty blockers are harmful’. Interestingly Judy had a little Freudian slip when she described them as ‘gay affirmative healthcare’, before quickly correcting herself.
Glen or Glenda? and the History of Trans Healthcare
I would have said it had Virginia Prince’s fingerprints all over of it, except the film predates Prince’s Transvestia magazine by several years. Nevertheless, Wood clearly spent time speaking to such men (probably Prince) and the psychiatrists who treated the same, as the description and depiction of transvestism is all too familiar to those who know it. A reminder also that gender identity ideology was already fully formed before most of us were even born.
Non-Binary in Higher Education report launch and panel discussion
The survey was run for six weeks starting in April 2019, thus it has taken more than four years to analyse the results and publish this report. FOUR YEARS! A worldwide pandemic has come and gone in between, which we’re pretty sure saw most hackademics sunning themselves in their gardens for about 18 months, but I digress.
Backroom politics
There was an acknowledgement in the group that the public at large was not very keen on the idea of ‘queerness’. (I note it was impossible for them to discuss quite why that would be.) It was also made harder by individual politicians pushing back (again no names were mentioned for fear of addressing specific issues, i.e. any discussion of MPs either criticising or approving of rapists being put in female prisons).
In conversation with Dawn Butler
Announced just four days prior to the event taking place, Dawn Butler, most famous for saying (in terf society at least) that babies are born without sex, was to be platformed by the British Politics Centre at Birkbeck. As a long time subscriber to their newsletter, the normal lead up is several weeks in advance, especially if it’s a biggish name. Therefore I suspect the approach was made by Butler herself.
The Lies They Tell 
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