Heartened to see that close to 900 fellow academics and educators have already signed our letter in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing & trans inclusion, and against essentialist, anti-scientific, racialised & regressive views of womanhood. Please do read, share & sign! tinyurl.com/mud7va29
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Just added my name. Thank you for co-organising and sharing this.
Have a follow
900! I was no.208 this morning. Well done, everyone who signed, and thank you, Caroline, for composing and circulating!
Not just me! Very much a team effort :-) Thank you for sharing :-)
Shared and signed. β οΈ
Feminism-Appropriating Reactionary Transphobes is a far deeper cut than TERF, dontchya think?
Is it helpful for non-Brits to sign?
same question!
There are many non-Brits on the list already :-) It speaks particularly to recent UK events, but we haven't restricted it. Any feminist academic or educator who shares the sentiments is welcome to join us!
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Thank you! π
Thank you, Dr. Pennock. Thank you for speaking for us.
It really is the least I can do. I hope you're okay and well supported in this somewhat chaotic time. :-)
Signed!
Thank you for letting us know. Signed!
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It does my heart good to see this. Thank you all so much! β€οΈβ€οΈβ€οΈπ³οΈββ§οΈ
Well over a thousand now! π And it feels like the bare, decent minimum tbh. I hope youβre ok and have good support in these chaotic times. π
I do, thank you. I'm fortunate enough to be Danish, and so far, Denmark has resisted gender critical ideology. "I wouldn't say that self-ID has been any threat to women's rights movement in Denmark - actually I would more say the oppositeβ - Helene Forsberg, director of the Women's Council Denmark
This is very interesting - I wonder how the debate pans out in other European countries
It varies from country to country across Europe, but none have regressed as much as the UK which used to be one of the most progressive nations, but has dropped considerably rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org
Thanks so much for sending these. Still digesting itβ¦.
Great to hear! If only it were like that here.
Sadly the link to the signatory form seems to be broken rn!
Itβs working fine for me, and I see people signed recently. π Perhaps try in a different browser?
Well, dang. Iβll keep trying. I tried the built-in Bluesky browser and then safari. Off to find a computer.
What a nuisance! Iβm pretty sure itβs at your end though, as people are signing all the time π
I will find a way and update here for anyone else who gets the 403 error!
That would be great - thank you! If you canβt make it work in the end then email the NION address and weβll try to add you manually.
Resolved! Firefox on PC worked great, but more importantly I have discovered if anyone else is getting a 403 error from the link, copy and paste *the text* of the link into your phone browser. (If you hold down and copy/paste, what pastes has some extension and 403s)
Well done! And thanks for the tip π
Signed and shared β
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Love this!! Thank you β€οΈ
It's very little really I know, but we just felt the need do DO SOMETHING. I hope you're coping and are supported in the current chaotic situation ππ
It's fabulous and much appreciated π
Is it OK for men to sign this? I assume so but wanted to check as the letter seems primarily written from the perspective of women (which is understandable!) and I don't want to do anything out of turn.
Yes, fine for you to sign! Youβll notice that the original signatories to the letter are separated at the top. We wrote as all cis and NB female people, but then called on all fellow academics and educators to co-sign. Does that make sense? (Probably unnecessarily complicated in retrospect...)
Thanks - that makes sense! And is what I expected, but I just wanted to make sure. I'll sign now!
901 now.
Thank you! Actually... 1793 :-)
Even better!