https://spectator.com/article/the-poisonous-truth-about-british-universities/
For all that people like to think that woke is over, or that the trans madness is dying down in the wake of the Scottish nurse Sandie Peggie’s victory, it’s still the case that a quarter of British academics say they fear they could be physically attacked for addressing subjects such as trans ideology. Research is being skewed, students are being misled, staff are self-censoring and scared.
And look at Professor Gordon: they’re right to be scared. It’s not like university management has anyone’s back. Quite the opposite. In the countryside where I grew up, gamekeepers would sometimes hang the corpses of foxes and crows along the top of a barbed-wire fence as a warning to other predators: don’t mess with the boss. A ‘game-keeper’s gibbet’, it was called. ‘Management’s gibbet’, we could call the line of academics strung up like Professor Gordon, twisting in the wind. Beware oh students, this is what awaits you in just a short while in the world of work: Karen-like line managers; HR women with that haunted turncoat look. Think: who here is really on your side?
‘The complaint system has been kicked into the long grass,’ a source told the Daily Telegraph. Well, it’s getting pretty crowded in Phillipson’s long grass. Also slowly decaying in the weeds is the guidance so many desperate teachers, doctors and academics have been waiting for, which will finally make it clear to businesses and all public bodies that as a result of last year’s excellent Supreme Court ruling, sex under the Equality Act means biological sex. Once the guidance is published, schools, hospitals and universities will be able to go about their normal business teaching pupils actual reality about biological sex and keeping men in dresses from barging into the single-sex places designed to keep women safe. Management will no longer feel free to use such tactics to out their enemies. Once the guidance is published…