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Well, I wasn’t in the seminar, but every report I’ve seen uses the same headline: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/student-investigated-after-saying-women-ha
by leephillips 5y ago
Well, I wasn’t in the seminar, but every report I’ve seen uses the same headline:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/student-investigated-after-saying-women-have-vaginas-is-cleared-qcggvm2c8 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/student-investigated-afte...
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/lisa-keogh-abertay-university-women-have-vaginas-investigation-cleared-121523888.html https://uk.news.yahoo.com/lisa-keogh-abertay-university-wome...
Of course reporters are always copying from each other, so that doesn’t mean much. But the second report above says that she was cleared of misbehaving in class. So it certainly seems as if her “confrontational” behavior consisted in stating obvious truths that some people were distressed to hear—including the vagina thing. So the headlines are not begging any question. They’re really just reporting the facts.
- jfengel 5y agoIt's not an obvious truth. That's the point. Not all women have vaginas. Not all people with vaginas are women. And even if you don't want to accept that trans women are women, you can't do so in a class about trans issues without being confrontational. That was the entire point of the class. Insisting that it has to be an obvious truth, in the context of that class, means that you're not listening. And they may have decided that "not listening" isn't sufficient reason for disciplinary action. But it's poor performance in class.
- leephillips 5y agoSo her “confrontational” behavior consisted, in your description, of saying heretical things; things that she believed to be true. Got it.
- jfengel 5y agoYes, you got me. You understood it perfectly. Congratulations.