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  MENU James Treadwell: Professor fears for his job after tweets on gender Professor James Treadwell said that he had no details about the claims against him Charlie Parker Friday January 14 2022, 9.00am, The Times Share Save A lecturer has said that he is the latest academic victim of “cancel culture” after his university began investigating his tweets for transphobia without giving him details about the allegation. James Treadwell, a professor of criminology at Staffordshire University, was told by his employer that “formal and official” complaints had been made about his comments on Twitter. “I am being investigated for transphobia,” he tweeted. “Read my tweets. Go figure,” he added, joking: “It’s a good job cancel culture is just a myth though, right.” The university confirmed that it had received a complaint about “the views expressed” by the professor on Twitter but refused to identify the messages when asked to by  The Times . James Treadwell: Professor fears for his jo...

  JANICE TURNER | COMMENT Now GRA reform is dead, let this toxic debate end Janice Turner Monday June 15 2020, 12.01am, The Times P ublicly-funded trans lobby groups like Stonewall expected that changing the 2004 Gender Recognition Act to a system of gender “self-identity” would sail through. They persuaded Tory MP Maria Miller, then chairwoman of the Commons women and equalities committee, that allowing biological males to change birth certificates to female on their word alone, abolishing medical oversight, was mere “admin” for trans people and no one else’s business. Miller’s 2016 public consultation on the GRA discounted submissions from women’s groups that expressed concern that self-ID had grave implications for rape crisis centres, women’s prisons and refuges. The political playbook for introducing self-ID into law is set out in a document called “Only adults?” published by the law firm Dentons. It advises that “gender identity remained a more  difficult issue to win pu...

  Call defendants by gender they want, judges told Lady Justice King, the Court of Appeal judge, described the guidance as a “dynamic document” ROYAL COURTS OF JUSTICE Jonathan Ames , Legal Editor Monday December 27 2021, 12.01am, The Times Judges have been told that they should refer to criminal defendants by the gender they have chosen for themselves. New guidance instructs judges to consider whether alleged victims of sexual offences should be required to describe transgender defendants by the pronouns they self-identify with. It will give rise to concerns that witnesses and alleged victims of rape, sexual offences and domestic abuse could be forced to refer to defendants as women, even if they view them as male. Revisions to the “equal treatment benchbook”, a 540-page guide from the Judicial College, have told judges: “There may be situations where the rights of a witness to refer to a trans person by pronouns matching their gender assigned at birth, or to otherwise reveal a pe...

" loading="lazy" class="Img-module__image Img-module__image--loaded Img-module__image--fit-crop"> James Kirkup In praise  of Stonewall 18 November 2021, 6:00pm " alt="In praise of Stonewall" loading="lazy" class="Img-module__image Img-module__image--loaded Img-module__image--fit-crop"> Text Comments This morning saw a profound breakthrough in the trans debate. I say that on the basis of an  interview  Nancy Kelley, Stonewall's CEO, did with the BBC’s Emma Barnett on  Woman’s Hour .  What’s important is not really anything that Kelley said, though some of that was indeed interesting and I’ll come to it in a second. What matters is that the interview took place at all, since that constitutes a significant shift in the way Stonewall does its work. Stonewall's instinct has been to largely avoid mainstream media and other political debates about its work on trans issues that is now its primary focus. Kelley has given ...