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Robert Laverick

7 months

Colleagues at @UniversityLeeds interested in and in support of #FreeSpeech and #AcademicFreedom can join the newest Academics For Academic Freedom branch! @AFAF_freespeech #AFAF For more information, view our webpage (). @LeedsUniAFAF

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Academics For Academic Freedom

@AFAF_freespeech

7 months

Academics in Leeds who support free speech and academic freedom should join the new AFAF branch @LeedsUniAFAF

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Robert Laverick

@RobLaverick92

3 years

@AyoCaesar Whilst I agree that all should unite against censorship, today's events highlight why it was so dangerous and lazy for many on the left to sit back and watch as TalkRadio and Trump were silenced. We might not agree with some, but we should defend their liberty to speak.

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@RobLaverick92

5 months

In the 4 years since this iconic tweet, so much has changed in this space. @MForstater 's EAT ruling makes clear our right to state that men are not women and that @SexMattersOrg . @jk_rowling has sacrificed a lot to defend #WomensRights , and we #LGB people are grateful too! #AFAF

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@jk_rowling

4 years

Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real? #IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill

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6 months

@professor_dave #LGB people have lost the ability to meet without the opposite sex present. Women have lost the ability to have women only spaces. Please remind me how the trans rights movement doesn't trample over hard won #LGB and women's rights?

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@RobLaverick92

4 months

@Serena_Partrick @leakylike It is grotesque that, for the sake of some parents' ideology, children are confused and taught nonsense whilst other children's boundaries are breached and broken down. I will never understand how this nonsense became so widespread and allowed by so many.

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@RobLaverick92

4 months

@UglaStefania If people in your life want to call you that, so be it. Our simple expectation is that we not be demanded to say things which go against our beliefs and nor will we accept our rights ( #LGB and #WomensRights ) to be impacted by any breaches of sex segregated spaces etc.

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@RobLaverick92

1 year

The @ucu rep in my department engaged with me this afternoon. For anyone that wasn't sure (and cares), this is my general position on the UCU. #AFAF @AFAF_freespeech @Docstockk @EdinUniAFAF @SussexUni @leedsucu

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@RobLaverick92

3 months

It would be helpful for the vast majority of #HigherEducation institutions to drop the #LGBT "diversity champion" scheme and learn what the actual law is rather than continue to train academics based on legally inaccurate and illiterate propaganda provided by @stonewalluk . #AFAF

Maya Forstater

@MForstater

3 months

NHS axes Stonewall-backed Rainbow Badge Scheme which told hospitals to stop using 'woman' and 'mother'

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@RobLaverick92

1 year

@redditchrachel @MForstater @SexMattersOrg I'm re-listening to the audio book #Trans by @HJoyceGender atm. The clarity of the ideas she outlines and the way she delivers them with calm scruitiny is refreshing! Shame the topics discussed are so deeply concerning and alarming - glad the committe is looking into #GRRBill

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@RobLaverick92

26 days

Whether you've been involved in the movement against gay coversion 2.0 for 10 years or 10 minutes, we need more gay man and others to speak out against the harms of gender. #CassReport #LGBWithoutTheTQ #LGBWithoutTheT #WomensRights

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@Jebadoo2

26 days

I need gay men to be absolutely clear about this. In your life time they pathologised, medicalised, castrated boys just like you and called it gender and these will be the men in your gay clubs in 10 years. You must now face the soon harvest of gender and join us to fight this.

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@RobLaverick92

3 years

@OfficialSPGB @danwootton At least he knows what winning is. 16 years since you last tasted victory...

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@RobLaverick92

9 months

@SVPhillimore @Glinner should not settle. Drag them through the courts and bleed them dry to set an example that this discrimination must stop.

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@RobLaverick92

1 month

@professor_dave This is a strawman. GC activists highlight that anyone can abuse laws that allow males to claim an identity to access female only provisions. We know that no male can become female and campaign to ensure single sex provisions are kept single sex. Nobody is dehumanising anyone.

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@RobLaverick92

14 days

@Freda_Media @BiologyStupid @MForstater @SEENCityNetwork It was sufficient for @SocialWorkEng & @CityWestminster to harras and bully her🙄 You're right though, what Rachel did was nothing beyond reasonable. It's a shame employers listen to people like you, @stonewalluk , @PeterTatchell , etc., and try to ruin people's lives.

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Robert Laverick

@RobLaverick92

2 years

Our government is collapsing and a change may well be in the public interest, but these ridiculous policies would be so damaging to women and young gay people. How is it that the only alternative to an infighting Tory Party is a hyper woke Labour Party? #LGBWithoutTheT

Anneliese Dodds

@AnnelieseDodds

2 years

Labour will: ▪️ban all forms of conversion therapy ▪️appoint an envoy to promote LGBT+ rights globally ▪️modernise the Gender Recognition Act and protect the Equality Act Labour leading on LGBT+ rights. The Tories paralysed by chaos.

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@RobLaverick92

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@professor_dave I don't agree and nor does the law. The @ForWomenScot ruling makes clear that trans identified people without a GRC have no prima facie right to access single sex provisions for their acquired gender. 1/x

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@RobLaverick92

1 month

@professor_dave No. They are female & male respectively, and single sex spaces have been carved out for good reason. It isn't because they personally may be a danger, but that anyone could self ID to access the space. It's why all males are kept out of female spaces despite few being a danger.

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@RobLaverick92

1 year

@michaelpforan Is there an academic that is willing to speak on trans issues that hasn't had to have "one of those chats" with their boss? I'm growing to enjoy them now 😂

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@RobLaverick92

5 months

It's amusing to watch a competent academic clearly and concisely explain his perception of the law whilst another barrister just expresses his ideology - disregarding inconvinient law and the expertise of others.

Dennis Noel Kavanagh

@Jebadoo2

5 months

Yet again, Robin entirely misrepresents what Dr Foran said in a meticulous thread about the statutory duty to provide single sex toilet facilities in school. Robin regards that law as an inconvenient detail so will respond with grotesque mischaracterisations if challenged.

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Robert Laverick

@RobLaverick92

2 months

Irish law makers may be able to pass harmful hate speech laws, but they seemingly cannot gaslight the electorate to support similar butchery to their constitution. #WomensRights

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@RobLaverick92

3 months

@stephenwhittle @Hardley76 @SamFowles This is fairly intellectually vacuous for an academic lawyer. The GC belief relates to how biological facts are managed in society. As was found in @MForstater , most of the time sex is unimportant, but when it matters, it is crucial and policies should reflect that.

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@RobLaverick92

3 months

Can't help but love the defiance of these #AdultHumanFemales defending #WomensRights . Defending @RosieDuffield1 & @jk_rowling whilst opposing the ideological pillar at @NetworkRailLBG . #LetWomenSpeak @ThePosieParker #LGB #LGBWithoutTheT #LGBWithoutTheTQ @LGBTHM

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@itsMelDaley

3 months

Live now! @StandingforXX on X Live stream at @LBG_Station #londonBridgeStation #LetWomenSpeak 🥳 🎉

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@RobLaverick92

9 months

@ThomasWillett9 @joannaccherry also supports the rights of trans people. It's almost as though you don't understand that there's a difference between supporting their protections under the EqA & supporting male access to women's spaces because he "feels like a woman" and other similar misogyny.

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@RobLaverick92

1 year

@rcpsych Grow up. Robustly challenging this rubbish is essential and should be celebrated. Investigate why you're pushing this drivel at the expense of vulnerable people in need of professional services.

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@RobLaverick92

5 months

@RozKaveney Worth recognising that is isn't @bindelj who has changed, just that the mainstream left no longer represents the political idea of protecting women. Oddly (some might say) that the political right has taken that space, much like they have regarding free speech.

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@RobLaverick92

5 months

Just a list of heroes with an important message. Men are not and can never be women. We shouldn't be pressured into pretending they can be! Have a lovely Christmas @Jebadoo2 @MrMennoTweets @MForstater @Docstockk @sharrond62 @RosieKayK2CO et al!! #AFAF @AFAF_freespeech

MrMenno 🏳️‍🌈🎶

@MrMennoTweets

5 months

Merry Terfmas everyone! 🎄🥳 I hope you're all enjoying a well-deserved break... it's been quite a year! If you ever feel like you're alone in this I hope you can see from this vid that there are plenty of people 'fighting the good fight' in all areas of life. For you, for me,…

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@RobLaverick92

3 years

@FoxNews It's amusing to even have to vote on something being constitutional... The Chief justice of SCOTUS isn't presiding and Trump isn't in office. This clearly, therefore, doesn't fall under the impeachment process of the POTUS.

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@RobLaverick92

4 months

@RosieDuffield1 Let children be children. Let them play and explore. Let them learn all the wonders of the world. Teach them the potential harms of the world. Let their child bodies develop into adult bodies. Let them realise who they are and who they can be. Let them learn to love themselves.

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@RobLaverick92

1 year

@epkaufm @DrSarahLiu But being white and male etc is something that can be arbitrarily attacked to make these people feel virtuous. Things that actually matter or make a difference really are secondary in their ideology.

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@RobLaverick92

14 days

You'd think institutions might stop behaving in a way that gets them taken to employment tribunals which they keep losing at for ignoring the precedent set by @MForstater . It makes no sense that EDI is taken so seriously, but legislation and case law are ignored?

Maya Forstater

@MForstater

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📯🎉 Tribunal awards *exemplary damages* against Social Work England for its harassment of gender critical social worker Rachel Meade. Is the message getting though yet?

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@RobLaverick92

5 months

The idea that academic institutions would be allowed to expel a student for holding legally protected beliefs that even the regulating body defends would make a mockery of the body, the specific sector, and the #HigherEducation in general. This precedent will be crucial. #AFAF

James Esses

@JamesEsses

5 months

🚨Case Update🚨 After being expelled from my Masters’ degree for speaking out about the impact of gender ideology on child safeguarding, I am extremely pleased to announce that I have agreed a settlement with the UK Council for Psychotherapy ( @UKCP_Updates ). (1/3)

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@RobLaverick92

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@frontrowshoes @GlamourMagUK They can get single sex care on the male ward, since all 'transwomen' are male.

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@RobLaverick92

5 months

@pickle_bee "Even if it clearly fits within the parameters of devolved legislation". Had it stuck to those parameters, s.35 would have been unlawful. Try reading the judgement 😂

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@RobLaverick92

1 year

@MForstater Still trying to break through the group think. There aren't huge numbers of us, but we are trying... 😮‍💨

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@RobLaverick92

2 months

@trussliz Good to see a former PM using her platform to advocate for sex based rights and some sense of reality in law. The legal fiction of sex written into the law by the GRA and protected by the EqA and FWS rulings needs to be reversed!

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@RobLaverick92

1 month

Perhaps institutions can drop the nonsense that misgendering could constitute harassment then? Using sex based terms to accurately refer to people should be, and seemingly is, absolutely unquestionable and uncontroversial. #AFAF

Maya Forstater

@MForstater

1 month

Here we are. Stonewall recognizes that "misgendering" is something like "criticising religion" Is it criminal to criticise religion ? ❌ Is it harassment to criticize religion? ❌ Would it be lawful for an employer to require staff never to criticize religion? ❌

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@RobLaverick92

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@MForstater @Daily_Express It still feels odd that campaigning to ensure that news outlets refer to a man as a man is needed. We *all* know what a man is. We *all* know what a woman is. How has society got to a point of pretending that we don't all know this?!

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@RobLaverick92

5 months

@professor_dave No child is trans. Adults can do as they please regardless of how nonsense the ideology behind any such action is. Leave children alone.

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@RobLaverick92

26 days

@PeterTatchell The only charity focused on #LGB rights, @AllianceLGB , were derided by people like you. It's easy to pretend to care about LGB issues, but your focus is clear. You support gay conversion 2.0. #TransingAwayTheGay

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@RobLaverick92

2 months

This is a prime example of why many of us in #HigherEducation make a keen effort to defend & promote #AcademicFreedom & #FreeSpeech . Colleagues should be encouraged to pursue a range of pedagogically rigorous teaching methods, which really ought to include asking tough questions.

The Free Speech Union

@SpeechUnion

2 months

🚨 BREAKING: FSU member and University College London (UCL) academic Michelle Shipworth has been BANNED from teaching her own course, after a Chinese student complained that discussing modern slavery in China was too "provocative". Incredibly, UCL sided with students who said…

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@RobLaverick92

2 years

@thom_brooks @Keir_Starmer Imagine, a lefty academic thinks @UKLabour are the future. Such a novel and invaluable contribution. 🙄🙄

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@RobLaverick92

1 year

@DrJoGrady Defending fellow academics, including @ucu members, isn't even close to a secondary priority for the union or its leader.

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@RobLaverick92

1 year

The @ucu rep in my department engaged with me this afternoon. For anyone that wasn't sure (and cares), this is my general position on the UCU. #AFAF @AFAF_freespeech @Docstockk @EdinUniAFAF @SussexUni @leedsucu

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@RobLaverick92

8 months

@colwight @stephenwhittle @leng_cath The problem is that many TRAs and trans people keeping make that claim, so many believe it. @stephenwhittle cannot be discriminated against for thinking she's a man despite being female, but we don't have to pretend she is a man, because she isn't.

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@RobLaverick92

1 year

@Serena_Partrick I love it when they think they need to tell us they were "assigned male at birth". Like, yer mate. I can see your XY chromosomes from here!

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@RobLaverick92

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@professor_dave We do not deny that they think they are trans. We simply do not have to go along with that belief systematic are entitled to explain and campaign against the harms that can be caused.

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@RobLaverick92

2 months

@professor_dave JK Rowling hasn't "transitioned". What even does transition mean? Men are men whether they think they're a woman or not (whatever that means). Dysphoria should be treated with psychological and psychosocial therapy with "transition" being the last, not first, option.

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@RobLaverick92

5 months

@peterwalker99 She said the department has the data. Do you know anything other than to lie?

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@RobLaverick92

9 months

@Freda_Wa11ace @missiemaisie @SVPhillimore His words weren't vague. His speech was clear incitement.

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@RobLaverick92

3 years

@JeremyVineOn5 @IainDale @SholaMos1 @theJeremyVine I really appreciate @IainDale 's balanced assessment. The government haven't handled the pandemic perfectly, but it's true to say that of other European governments and the public recognise that. It's also an important point to acknowledge the success of the UK vaccine rollout

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@RobLaverick92

10 months

I ask this about my entire sector all the time. How has the #HigherEducation sector been so captured by group think when the entire purpose of research is the pursuit of truth with no fear or favour? Completely illogical.

Maya Forstater

@MForstater

10 months

Excellent by @CharlesHMoore on why otherwise sensible, well qualified people act so unprofessionally when given the opportunity to show they are woke. (I ask myself this about my colleagues @CGDev everyday)

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@RobLaverick92

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@happylittlealli @KirstieMAllsopp "Trearment they need". What you mean is "treatment they *think* they need". There is no evidence that this 'treatment' helps and there's growing evidence of the harms, but you still want to push it on kids? It's beyond wilful ignorance now.

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@RobLaverick92

1 year

@stephenwhittle @ChathmhaoilE The idea that sex attributes a set of roles is grotesque nowadays.

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@RobLaverick92

2 months

@HazelAppleyard_ Detrans awareness day should be every day. We should be conscious every day of the harm gender identity ideology causes both societally and to every individual caught up in the barbaric practise of "gender affirming care." The #WPATHFiles are just the beginning. #LGBWithoutTheT

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@RobLaverick92

3 years

@Mike_Fabricant Perhaps Southend ought to be made a city in his name.

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@RobLaverick92

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@professor_dave @ForWomenScot I reject that allowing trans people access isn't the same as "allowing access to all people" given than anyone can self ID to access the space - assuming you are suggesting that those without a GRC should be granted access. 3/3

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@RobLaverick92

9 months

@SpeechUnion @sharrond62 is a pioneer for speaking up on this issue and should be praised for her resilience in doing so. Going after her kids is weak and pathetic. They deserve our full support.

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@RobLaverick92

5 months

Listening to @HJoyceGender describe @MForstater as phlegmatic with @AndrewGold_ok really hits the nail on the head. Suitably crazy to insist on her right to her belief (despite the cost) yet suitably stoic & intelligent to make her case effectively.

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@RobLaverick92

9 months

@Jebadoo2 Is it just arrogance that makes them think this is going to end better for them than it did for the Stand?

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@RobLaverick92

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@professor_dave @ForWomenScot The same ruling also constructs the legal fiction of legal sex, which can, as you say, make removing trans identified people with a GRC from single sex spaces more difficult - though not always impossible. The proportionate means to achieve a legitimate aim test applies. 2/x

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@RobLaverick92

3 years

@PoliticsForAlI Yet another example of the Conservative back benches serving as the opposition to the government on key issues. Where are @UKLabour ?

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@RobLaverick92

4 months

A serious discussion of law & the precedent set by @MForstater to allow people to express their beliefs. Institutions should not be attempting to limit, chill, or punish the lawful expression of any beliefs worthy of respect in a democratic society. @michaelpforan @SVPhillimore

GB News

@GBNEWS

4 months

‘We’re seeing a real culture war that’s resulting in activist lawyers…’ Lecturer @michaelpforan and Barrister @SVPhillimore on the case of social worker who was suspended after expressing gender-critical beliefs. 🔓 Become a GB News Member:

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@RobLaverick92

1 year

Gender critical academics get dragged over the coals for even remotely suggesting that gender identity theory is nonsense or that bio sex is real, yet on the other side, academics are so comfortable that overtly violent threats are allowed? I'm all for free speech, but not this.

Jacky Holyoake

@JackyHolyoake

1 year

With this one tweet, inciting violence against Kellie Jay Keen, Whittle has ensured she will never be listened to by anyone in Parliament ever again

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@RobLaverick92

1 year

A pretty swift implosion of the Scottish government (I guess it isn't just UK governments that fall apart rapidly!) all on the back of a failed ideology and the harm her #GRRBill would have led to. The UK government stepping in was unquestionable the right call.

Dennis Noel Kavanagh

@Jebadoo2

1 year

Sturgeon falls after foolishly governing against the wishes of her own people and embracing gender extremism. The Scots government's opposition to section 35 is now untenable. Time to listen to the people of Scotland and scrap dangerous GRA legislation.

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@RobLaverick92

3 months

Another day, another attempt to harass an academic just trying to do his job. It's worth noting that @SimonFanshawe became Rector at @EdinburghUni unopposed. Perhaps if these groups cared so much, they'd have been willing to put themselves forward for the role? @EdinUniAFAF #AFAF

Prof Jo Phoenix

@JoPhoenix1

3 months

Have they learned nothing? It will be very interesting to see how @EdinburghUni react to what looks remarkably familiar to the open letter organised against @OU_GCRN by academics- except this one is more obviously and entirely and openly linked to Simon Fanshawe. What’s even…

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@RobLaverick92

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@ThomasWillett9 @joannaccherry She rolled her eyes because the "evidence" used to make the argument is unedifying and that one ought not discuss suicidality in such terms. It was a disgraceful point to make and deserves a lot worse than an eye roll.

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@RobLaverick92

5 months

@peterwalker99 I suppose it's easier to mute the truth than acknowledging just how wrong you are. Perhaps it wasn't accidental? 🤷‍♂️

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@RobLaverick92

3 years

I am delighted to have been recognised as a Senior Fellow by @AdvanceHE . I'd like to thank the guidance from my mentors, Adrian Wright, and @NatalieMRowley , as well as @UoB_HEFi and @UoBChemistry for the opportunities and support I've received. 🤩

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@RobLaverick92

6 months

I can't understand why anyone would be a member of @ucu anyway, but the idea that they now stand for #AcademicFreedom is a joke. I strongly urge colleagues to reconsider their membership, not only due to the blight on students their action has caused, but this recent debarcle.

Dennis Hayes

@ProfDHayes

6 months

Four reasons to leave UCU - the speakers for tonight’s @ucu meeting that was heralded as a fight for academic freedom: Jo Grady, UCU GS Daniel Kebede, NEU Priyamvada Gopal, Professor of Postcolonial Studies, Cambridge Owen Jones, journalist @AFAF_freespeech

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4 months

Those of us who have faced / are facing punishment via the process into the legitimate & protected expression of our beliefs are very pleased that @RosieDuffield1 escaped the punishment of the process. We hope that this is a glimmer into a future in which #FreeSpeech is valued.

Dennis Noel Kavanagh

@Jebadoo2

4 months

They say the process is the punishment and let us be clear, the Labour baby gro meltdown is entirely due to that process not sufficiently punishing a woman. They had precisely nothing to say when Sir Keir spoke about single sex spaces. Unserious kiddie witch hunters.

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@RosieDuffield1 @JoPhoenix1 I'm very pleased that fellow academics are winning cases and showing that discrimination within the #HigherEducation sector isn't acceptable. Having powerful voices, including @JoPhoenix1 and @RosieDuffield1 , defending our rights & #WomensRights generally is extremely valuable.

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@RobLaverick92

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Being one of few in my workplace and friend circle openly talking about this issue has made me a beacon for those who privately agree. I hope to be providing the space for them to discuss these issues in the hopes that they are able to find their full voice. #WomensRights #LGB

Helen Staniland

@helenstaniland

1 month

I get many DMs thanking me for speaking out, and I'm beginning to see a narrative where people are starting to speak to each other. 'My teenage boys agree', 'my colleagues are angry about this', 'my book group are against transwomen in female sports'. It's getting easier to talk.

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@Jebadoo2 Am I right? 🙏

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@RobLaverick92

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@UKLabour have a long way to go to demonstrate credibility in this space despite their front bench's welcomed comments on the #CassReport . @wesstreeting spent years paroting @stonewalluk 's homophobia, whilst @AngelaRayner labelled volunteers raising this issue as a hate group.

LGB Alliance

@AllianceLGB

4 years

Yesterday, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Angela Rayner, and Dawn Butler signed a pledge stating that LGB Alliance is a hate group. This we categorically reject. We are a group of volunteers working to prevent the erosion of the rights of same-sex attracted people./1of3

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Robert Laverick

@RobLaverick92

10 months

It is amusing that the #GenderBorg and captured institutions go after all the wrong people. The saddest part is that it means others, who didn't want to have to go through investigations & tribunals, were all silenced by the threat of action. We must not allow them to silence us.

Dennis Noel Kavanagh

@Jebadoo2

10 months

Quick shout out to the Magnificent Allison Bailey who I understand is 20K better off due the unreasonable conduct of the fools who went after her.

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Robert Laverick

@RobLaverick92

5 months

I think this is the case for any child & any adult with parental responsibility - teachers, etc shouldn't have the ability to, so they shouldn't need to be held similarly accountable #Gender ideology is exclusively harmful. All children deserve protection. Lock these abusers up.

Dennis Noel Kavanagh

@Jebadoo2

5 months

Taking your 3 year old to a gender clinic should be grounds for your arrest, an instant social services intervention and a deep dive into your background and levels of homophobia. It is not normal to put infants on a path to sex changes. This is just mad people. Utterly mad.

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Robert Laverick

@RobLaverick92

4 months

Fortunately, not all @UKLabour MPs have lost their minds. The #Gender cult has taken over all but 2 or 3 of them. @RosieDuffield1 - an ardent defender of #WomensRights @jessphillips sometimes remembers what a woman is. A future government with @AnnelieseDodds is scary for #LGB .

Tonia Antoniazzi MP

@ToniaAntoniazzi

4 months

Bonne nuit

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Robert Laverick

@RobLaverick92

3 months

Literally cannot go a week without another judgement defending the @MForstater precedent with the court finding again in favour of the claimant for discrimination on the basis of his protected Gender Critical beliefs. When will they learn? #LGBWithoutTheT #LGBWithoutTheTQ #AFAF

Shahrar Ali

@ShahrarAli

3 months

♀️ JUDGMENT ⚖️ has landed! WE WON!! Wow! Just Wow! This is HUGE!! Our Gender Critical beliefs Are Worthy of Respect in A Political Party!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! 🙏💚♀️💚♀️💚 #AliVsGPEW Please Tell the World 📣

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@RobLaverick92

6 months

Clive is entirely right. It's not credible to argue that #Trans people "just want to be left alone" whilst the movement in their name (typically not led by them in fairness!!) is encroaching on #WomensRights and freedoms. Women deserve the full protection of the EqA. #AFAF

Clive Simpson

@QueensSpeechUK

6 months

@TimesRadio @Glinner @StigAbell "There are trans people who just want to be left alone" Well, there are also women who just want to be left alone, but the trans activists keep on trying to get in their spaces, shut them up, get them fired and attacking them for daring to have a different opinion.

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Robert Laverick

@RobLaverick92

3 months

One can but hope that this sensible approach relating to #AcademicFreedeom & #FreeSpeech on campus will be absorbed by leadership within the #HigherEducation sector, so that Universities and others stop taking disciplinary action against colleagues for their lawful speech. #AFAF

Abhishek Saha

@ObhishekSaha

3 months

Excellent from Arif Ahmed: "We stand for the widest possible definition of freedom of speech: anything within the law." This is the correct approach and takes UK Higher Education a step closer to an ideal where speech restrictions are minimal, exceptional and content-neutral. 🧵

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Robert Laverick

@RobLaverick92

5 months

@RuthPatchett1 @professor_dave @carowood01 The best interest of children is to stop deluding them into the harmful nonsense of not only hating their perfectly healthy body, but encouraging such hate by means of the non-neutral act of social transition. This safeguarding failure is rightly being stopped.

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Robert Laverick

@RobLaverick92

2 years

@vonderleyen @BusinessEurope @VDombrovskis A strong Europe needs to ditch the EU.

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Robert Laverick

@RobLaverick92

8 months

@MForstater @BellaSankey I realise not the point of the post, but @TheFemaleGreer is such an icon. The punchy delivery of her points show the absurdity of the opposing argument. What an inspiration.

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Robert Laverick

@RobLaverick92

1 year

The @ucu don't understand their own definition of sex and complain when others, including the @EHRC , seek to clarify the legal definition of sex in line with UCU's own definition of sex. @ucu claim that to be transphobic and discriminatory. Cannot help these clueless ideologues🙄

Michael Foran

@michaelpforan

1 year

This is the UCUs definition of sex from its trans inclusion policy.

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Robert Laverick

@RobLaverick92

1 year

#SelfID is a failed policy and politicians are reaping what they sow. Perhaps @Keir_Starmer and @UKLabour will learn? #LGBWithoutTheT

Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧

@EssexPR

1 year

If you haven’t got the guts to declare what a woman is, you shouldn’t be in politics. Good riddance @NicolaSturgeon , let’s hope that other politicians realise that this whole woke agenda will be the end of them too… Cc @Keir_Starmer 👀

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@RobLaverick92

4 months

Nobody wants to be a test case in court, and we academics owe a great debt to @AlmutGadow for standing true to her beliefs to defend #AcademicFreedom & #FreeSpeech with the help of @SpeechUnion and @AFAF_freespeech . We must protect our rights. #HigherEducation must reform. #AFAF

LeedsUniAFAF

@LeedsUniAFAF

4 months

Hopefully, this case will be suffiecient to protect academics in the expression of their #AcademicFreedom & #FreeSpeech . Colleagues shouldn't have drag their #HigherEducation institutions to court to not be discriminated against. Universities must learn. #AFAF

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@RobLaverick92

10 months

@CheloniaGirl Kinda funny when an assistant professor talks with such confidence on matters relating to their field whilst, in some areas, being entirely incorrect. Embarrassing really.

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@RobLaverick92

1 month

Whilst the @JoPhoenix1 case is making waves around the #HigherEducation sector, the EAT judgement in Higgs is seemingly unknown to most of HR. Universities, like others, must be mindful to consider these 9 aspects - crucially by not taking sides. #AFAF

Sarah Phillimore

@SVPhillimore

1 month

Very helpful - when beliefs clash at work, no immediate right answer but three things to do - have a clear policy in place about communication, particularly social media use - DO NOT prioritise one belief above another - consider what is set out in case of Higgs about…

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@RobLaverick92

4 months

The idea that academics should avoid controversial topics, especially within their expertise, is manifestly unserious. Academic expertise is essential to combat misinformation and to help educate the public on such matters. #AcademicFreedom is essential. @AFAF_freespeech #AFAF

Michael Foran

@michaelpforan

4 months

Controversial topics are exactly the ones that benefit most from expert academic commentary that aims to inform the public with more light and less heat. This is why academic freedom exists. We need more people like Scott speaking on controversial topics, not fewer.

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@RobLaverick92

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@professor_dave @ForWomenScot Women are forced to self exclude if they are concerned by the risk of a male accessing that space. Society rightly doesn't believe that that is proportionate to accommodate males accessing female spaces. 2/2

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@RobLaverick92

9 months

@ThomasWillett9 @joannaccherry She has made her defense of their protections under the EqA public on many occasions. Do stop lying.

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Robert Laverick

@RobLaverick92

8 months

Have listened to #QueensSpeech for many months now and would highly recommend it to anyone interested in a (slightly) light-hearted review of the nonsense of #Gender each week and the pushback against it all. @QueensSpeechUK

Dennis Noel Kavanagh

@Jebadoo2

8 months

YouTube version of this week’s Queen’s Speech, (recorded before LWS yesterday) so join me and Clive discussing: 👑The BBC being awful to Roisin 👑Glinner’s book 👑The cancellation of James Dreyfus 👑Assorted lolz

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@RobLaverick92

5 months

#FreeSpeech is crucial for a society to think, challenge previous knowledge, and develop. As academics, we take this for granted & it's under threat even for us! I'm certainly glad to have joined the @SpeechUnion a few years ago and look forward to @janmacvarish visiting Leeds!

Lawrence Patihis

@lawrencepatihis

5 months

UK academics, & others: please consider joining the Free Speech Union. @SpeechUnion It actually is very affordable at £60 per year. They pool their money very efficiently to help establish legal precedents.

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Robert Laverick

@RobLaverick92

3 months

@TheHoodedClaw66 I've said publicly & professionally that I would never call a man "she". For those I have a duty of care to and/or must show dignity and mutual respect to, I won't use sex based pronouns either. I'd just avoid pronouns use & stick with their legal name. A reasonable compromise?

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Robert Laverick

@RobLaverick92

6 months

Whilst it is no bad thing that @ucu has finally learnt what #AcademicFreedom is, it's a bit rich to call for such freedom only when their views are no longer prevailing. Academic freedom must be defended. No ifs, no buts - not just when it's convenient.

AFAF Statement

Academics For Academic Freedom (AFAF) is a campaign for all academics who want to make a public statement in favour of unimpeded enquiry and expression.

www.afaf.org.uk

Jon Pike

@runthinkwrite

6 months

@DrJoGrady You don't have any credibility in defending Academic Freedom #StockFreedmanToddPhoenix

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Robert Laverick

@RobLaverick92

4 months

@RosieKayK2CO @JoPhoenix1 @RosieKayK2CO , you show us how to not lose yourself (and literally your name!) whilst going through an horrific ordeal. You're a heroin and the perfect example of elegance as a dancer, person, and activist. 😘

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@RobLaverick92

1 year

@joannaccherry I do hope you stand, @joannaccherry . Although I may disagree with you and @theSNP on independence and wouldn't vote for your party even if I had the option to, it would be nice to have a @scotgov that respect #LGB and Women's rights regardless of other issues.

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@RobLaverick92

11 months

@gillianinbrief @FredSargeant @NeilOrangePeel_ @Jebadoo2 @sarah_owl3 The above is a review of UK and the international data. This one is notable as it finds that suicidality increased in the years after surgery: Stop lying and negligently allowing this abuse.

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@RobLaverick92

4 months

The final point in a thorough thread. @MForstater is right that #HigherEducation institutions diminish their own standing by discriminating against colleagues expressing legitimate & lawful beliefs. How can we show universities that tolerance & #FreeSpeech are crucial? #AFAF

Maya Forstater

@MForstater

4 months

In fact its the other way around: the blatant discrimination carried out by the OU against Jo Phoenix is looking abhorrent and stupid. #WrongSideOfHistoryMyArse #CourageCallsToCourage

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@RobLaverick92

4 months

Being able to discuss the rights of same sex attracted people should not simply be able to be classed as transphobic and dismissed. It is lazily done in the #HigherEducation sector, and @UKLabour ought to do better, too. @AllianceLGB #LGB #LGBWithoutTheT #LGBWithoutTheTQ #AFAF

Gay Men’s Network

@MensNetwork1

4 months

1/ Homosexual rights are based on the legal recognition of same sex attraction. A Labour government must listen to gay men and lesbians. We are not "same gender" attracted and it's time to listen to our concerns about the homophobia of extreme gender ideology.

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Robert Laverick

@RobLaverick92

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@PinkNews There is no segregation of trans people. The males can compete with the males and the females with the females.

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