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11 DEC 2021 " loading="lazy" class="Img-module__image Img-module__image--loaded Img-module__image--fit-crop"> James Kirkup Gender is contentious. The BBC is pretending  it isn’t 7 December 2021, 3:10pm " alt="Gender is contentious. The BBC is pretending it isn't" loading="lazy" class="Img-module__image Img-module__image--loaded Img-module__image--fit-crop"> (Getty) The BBC has  produced  its annual 100 Women list, a showcase for women who have done interesting, important things. There’s a lot to like about this year’s list: half the women on it come from Afghanistan; some of them, tellingly, can’t be pictured for their own safety. Perhaps if fewer British resources had been deployed getting Pen Farthing's dogs out of Kabul in the summer, some of those women wouldn’t live in fear for their lives. But that’s another debate. There’s something else interesting about the BBC’s 100 Women, which says something about the...

  Julie Bindel The failed attempt to silence the sex trade survivor Rachel Moran 11 Nov 2019, 12:00am SHARE W hen  the sex trade survivor Rachel Moran published her memoir,  Paid For: My Journey through Prostitution , she knew not everybody would be happy that she'd laid bare the realities of sexual exploitation. Pimps, brothel owners and punters would hardly be pleased that she'd lifted the lid on the world’s oldest oppression. What she could never have imagined was having  to sue another woman for defamation, for  repeatedly claiming that Moran had based her book on a pack of lies. Gaye Dalton, who was also a prostitute in Dublin’s southside red-light district, one of the spots where Moran was bought and sold, has repeatedly alleged that Moran fabricated her entire life history, and had never even been in prostitution. These extraordinary claims were ruled as, 'Untrue, offensive and defamatory' by a judge in Dublin’s Circuit Court today, and Dalton was legall...

Equality and Human Rights Commission had ‘heavy-handed’ influence on gender questions In 2022 for the first time respondents can self-identify their sex instead of declaring what is on their birth certificate. BULAT SILVIA/GETTY IMAGES Jeremy Watson Thursday November 04 2021, 12.01am, The Times A human rights body has been accused of “heavy-handed” influence on guidance that will allow transgender people to self-identify in the collection of data by public bodies from next year. The “What is your sex?” question in forms will for the first time tell respondents that they can self-identify their sex instead of declaring what is on their birth certificate. Policy analysts claim a document trail shows that the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), a statutory UK body, put “extreme external pressure” on civil servants in Scotland to alter their initial proposals during a consultation period. Roger Halliday, the Scottish government’s chief statistician, who produces guidance for publi...

  Kathleen Stock, a philosophy professor, quit her post at the University of Sussex after allegations that she had been forced out by students who opposed her views on gender University gender course offered by Advance HE is unlawful, barrister says Jonathan Ames , Legal Editor | Ben Ellery Saturday November 06 2021, 12.01am, The Times Share Lawyers and campaigners say that a university training scheme on gender identity is “totalitarian and unlawful”. The latest row centres on a scheme called Athena Swan that is offered by jAdvance HE, formerly the Higher Education Academy, a charity that advises education institutions. The organisation has a pivotal role in financing academics because those bidding for funds from UK Research and Innovation must complete an equality and diversity statement that is likely to have been compiled under its advice. Concerns about the programme mirror those about advice on gender identity provided to businesses and public bodies by Stonewall. In a lette...