@KirsteinRummery
The trans population is estimated to be between 0.5% - 1% of the population. A variation of + or - 1% is really not an issue for service planning, you get larger variations simply from people moving around.
One problem is that the census is used to plan services: eg health services. So we need to know how many female and male people there are, for example to plan for cervical and prostate screening. If you can self identify out of your biological sex then we can't plan services
I've refrained from commenting on this, but the idea that you can understand how misgendering can be offensive but not the use of 'cis' just shows how fundamentally solpsistic some of these people are
You aren't allowed to offend me (aka
#NoDebate
) but I am allowed to offend you?
AG: she could have used cis woman and teanswoman
BC: So she has to concede to those terms..you understand many women regard the term cis woman as offensive?
AG: I don't understand that
BC: the bench book makes it clear
As a professor of social policy & a professional academic
#feminist
I can assert that this a complete misrepresentation of the way
#feminism
as both a political and academic movement works
Sex & gender are quite definitely not interchangeable & they weren't in 90s either
#sorrynotsorry
but if another posh twat tells my downgraded from B to D kid that they fluffed their exams & made a fortune off daddy's friends anyway I WILL LOSE MY SHIT
#examshambles
People who come from inherited wealth telling working class kids that grades arenโt important is a rollercoaster of a rabbit hole I was not expecting to go down this year.
@EmilySeitz
@bronwentate
My sister's version of this (age 8) was the time the ants got in the honeypot and ruined the whole summer. We still quote parts of it at her. She's 48.
I don't normally call out fellow academics but this is out of order. She's a student in your dept, you aren't an MSP anymore. I hate the UK too, politically, you going to pile on me?
No. Because I am a professor too.
Punch up, or across, never EVER punch down
I was living in Austria when it adopted the
#euro
Literally NOTHING happened except that the money in our pocket looked different
This is exactly what happened in the other countries too.
Because we weren't 3 yr olds and we didn't upturn the monopoly board in a sulk
Can I ask
#EU
citizens of the first European countries who adopted the "untested" currency of the Euro, if they had any problem paying their mortgage, or receiving their wages/pensions etc? Or was it a relatively smooth change over, with minimal to no disruption to your finances?
Can we fast-forward to the bit where Mick Lynch leads the revolution, Hugh Grant is made PM, Martin Lewis is Chancellor and the Tory Cabinet are redistributed to HMP or Rwanda?
We need a serious conversation about public attacks on marginalised communities.
Hate crimes against trans people have increased in correlation with โgender criticalโ activism.
The Hate Crimes (Scotland) Act fills an important gap in the law.
It never fails to amaze me the amount of folk in England who dislike
@theSNP
but as soon as you ask them for their reasons it's patently obvious they haven't got a clue what we stand for. ๐ค
I am an academic who studies these things and there very little anti- English feeling amongst
#indy
supporters. I am English I sit in the national committee of .
@WomenForIndy
There is however a huge amount of anti
#Scottish
prejudice amongst
#English
particularly.
@Conservatives
If you read these tweets and commit whataboutisms or use the friend/ girlfriend/ wife/ supporter is English argument, how about you just listen. Then take a step back, look at your arguments and see how closely they resemble that of others who oppose certain sections of society
Right now .
@theresa_may
is every woman who's had an idea shouted down in a meeting, only to have a mediocre man present it at the next meeting as his own and be hailed as a genius by all the other mediocre men
#BrexitDeal
I'm about to have my family torn apart, my right to free movement taken away, my research funding halved and my colleagues leaving, and I've managed not to grope anyone
#RossThomson
#brexit
He knows the
#welfare
state would thrive beyond the
#Union
. I am a
#professor
of social policy who does comparative social policy, not a Unionist blogger. I've proved this to him numerous times. He doesn't like the answers.
Gerry should remind this chancer (because he knows about it already) that public spending is significantly higher in our independent neighbours Iceland, Norway and Denmark etc etc
I've had to go through disciplinary procedures at work ( found to be groundless accusation) & it's just misogynistic bullying, but it's still exhausting.
I'm a professor of social policy, my argument is based on an empirical study of welfare federalism and equity internationally
Good
#mansplaining
though, top class
#ScotBudget
The abuse of .
@JoanMcAlpine
from within .
@theSNP
for just doing her job & listening to women's concerns about
#selfid
is pretty shameful for a party claiming
#feminist
credentials
No truly feminist party would EVER shame a woman for making sure women's concerns were heard
Researching 'feelings in Scotland' is LITERALLY my day job, sweetheart, and I'm an academic, not a tribally blind political party sheep....
I know you don't LIKE the answer but the evidence is that electorally
@thesnp
are definitely not losing support.
@KirsteinRummery
@UKParliament
I think you are totally out of touch with feelings in Scotland. We are totally sick of the ruination of Scotland by the vile, utterly dishonest SNP and that can be seen in the poll carried out by Angus Robertson
I don't know who needs to hear this, but neither .
@Womans_Place_UK
nor .
@ForwomenScot
are
#transphobic
hate groups and no-one should feel the need to leave a political party for believing women's voices should be heard
there's a name for that, and it's outright
#sexism
#expelme
@DrakeGatsby
also we should totally celebrate it in some way. Eggs!? chocolate eggs!!! and a feck off big cake with marzipan. Also, the thing I was tortured and murdered on? totally put it on sweet buns.
@ShonaghDillon
@MonicaLennon7
If you crowd sourced for a defamation suit I would totally contribute. I am not saying you should but I am sick of 'transphobia' being used willfully to mean 'I disagree with you' when ACTUAL
#transphobia
(discrimination against or harassment of
#trans
people) is ignored
The SNPโs abject failings on education and health show that it is your administration that remains a threat to opportunity and equality for working people in Scotland. (2/2)
I just gave a lecture in a theatre accessible for wheelchairs at the back - for students - but inaccessible at the front
Because
#Disabled
people can't be lecturers, obviously
#AcademicTwitter
Today an official medical provider for my uni told me they cannot provide wheelchair access.
I asked โThen what is your reasonable adjustment to ensure disabled students have equal access to care?โ
Behold: their reply comes, & they now suddenly have wheelchair access! Magic ๐
So I read the new rules and they didn't make sense. Then I listened to .
@BorisJohnson
& they still didn't make sense. Then I listened to .
@NicolaSturgeon
explain the reasoning and now they do make sense
And that, folks, is what we in the trade call 'leadership'
#Scotland
#Covid19
My very first job (a temp with BT) I inadvertently ordered 50km instead of 5m of cabling for a job
5 lorries turned up to a bloke expecting a wee parcel and the major boss bought me my first actual double whisky in a pub to celebrate the 'biggest feck up' he'd seen
My 90-year-old mum was v upset at an online shopping mistake (3 doormats the size of small planets) but rallied when I told her I bought a rail ticket for the wrong day & a friend ordered 50 bananas instead of 5. Any funny stories of online errors I can pass on to cheer her up?
He is right. Every party leader should be grilled on this. More women are killed due to
#domesticviolence
each YEAR than have EVER been killed by
#terrorism
It costs the UK an estimated ยฃ15bn pa
Why isn't that on the side of a bus??
.
@WEP_UK
โI was a police officer for more than 25 years and I regard domestic violence as terrorism on an epic scale. Itโs a disease on pandemic proportions.โ
Fmr police chief superintendent John Sutherland says domestic abuse is โthe single greatest cause of harm in societyโ
#Newsnight
Lies are being told about me in some newspapers today. At present Iโm not able to give my side of the story. I hope to be in a position to do so soon. Meantime Iโm overwhelmed by the support from constituents,
@theSNP
members &
#Yessers
. Thank you ๐
I am SO ANGRY about this campaign and so should everyone who sees it, is a
#carer
, has
#dementia
, works in the field or is just a fecking human bloody being
@alzheimerssoc
you should know, and do, better. My MIL watching it (early stages) was in tears. 'But I'm not dead'.
Death is the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. People living with dementia do not die again and again and again whatever the perceptions or feelings of loss of others. Saying so is objectively incorrect and also deeply harmful.
#OverlookedWomen
:ย Rosalind Franklin.
Died 16 April 1958, aged 37
Crystallographer who took Photo 51, the first known X-ray image of the DNA double helix. Watson, Crick & Wilkins later shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine & Physiology.
I've been doing research into
#dementia
with patients and
#carers
for ten years now, don't patronise me or the people I work with. I understand the message you were trying to get across, and I also understand that tapping into the deepest fears and worst experiences
Iโm pleased we can ease some of the restrictions for those who have been shielding but this ๐is for all of us. The virus hasnโt gone away. Following the rules doesnโt just keep us safe it means we can steadily & safely advise those most at risk to get back more of their lives.
@iseult
I just think, if you wanted people to have access to tampons, you'd campaign for that kind of thing. Not carry them around to foist them on random strangers. So it's not about the tampons, is it?
@DeynzerShelby
as a patient in an emergency c-section my enduring memory is of the female obs shouting SOMEONE GET ME SOME FUCKING SIZE 6 GLOVES BEFORE THIS WOMAN BLEEDS TO DEATH and tbh, it was a relief to know someone was in charge
I have really cried over Stonewall. It was where I went for solidarity for myself, my family and friends. The way it has thrown LGB folk under the bus has genuinely broken me.
Canโt help but feel this
As Stonewall comprehensively squander all the goodwill the gay rights movement built up with their embrace of medicalising homosexuality and cancelling decent women some sadness. That used to be my charity. Something I could rely on.
Now itโs a joke
@HTScotPol
Hands up if you'd rather have a consistent
#Scottish
approach than a confusing, irrelevant, inconsistent and uninformed
#uk
approach. I use this information to make informed decisions about risks TO MY LIFE. .
@BBCScotland
needs to reconsider this.
For decades, thousands and thousands of young women working at fringe venues have had to put up with listening to unpleasantly sexist material, drunk pushy sleazy men in the audience and male comedians hitting on them, with no outpouring of support./
My child, who came out as gay at 11, and non binary at 22, and is also an Aspie, and the bravest, cleverest person I know. We were told when they were diagnosed
#ASD
at 8 they'd never live or school independently
They just graduated with a 1st class MSc in physics from
@dundeeuni
Don't usually post family stuff on
#Twitter
but my 13 year old painted these and I am about bursting with shameless mum pride .
@SHSArtDept
#Artof2019
fantastic teachers at
@Stirling_High
& we all need beautiful things to look at in these dark times
I teach a module on research methods, 50:50 men to women. Every year, in the 'feminist' lecture, I ask folk to raise their hands if they have ever altered their behaviour to feel safer outside at night.
ALL the women raise their hands. Every. Single. Year.
ONE gay guy
#metoo
I'm in the 'fucking state of this' camp on this one I'm afraid. I hate this for all the same reasons I hate the fecking song. Privileged rich folk singing to poor folk 'imagine no possessions'...Oh Do Feck Right Fecking Off.
#imagine
OK. Well. I am
#shielding
. My daughter is about to go back to school. My students are going to return to .
@StirUni
I want - need actually- trustworthy information about the risks no matter what Baillie or her colleagues think. This is MY life I am risking.
#COVID19
Jackie Baillie wants the daily briefings to stop because she apparently thinks the crisis is over. Go away, Jackie Baillie. This crisis will not be over until there's a vaccine, which by the sounds of things will be December at the absolute earliest.
I am seeing lots of athletes speaking up โบ๏ธ
...But no artists or academics speaking up on the RA or LSE's behaviour.
Success in sport is based on objective performance (& therefore diverse)
Success in uni & art world is based on being in w the in crowd.
Posh closed shops.
apart from the Sussex branch you guys are possibly the worst
@ucu
branch in terms of supporting your members and you should be ashamed of yourselves bringing MY union into disrepute.
Me too. Born in England, navy brat so raised all over the world. Came here for work, stayed for the love of the country
My children (also born in England) chose to id as '
#Scottish
on the last census because 'this is home'
<3 ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐
Your
#homophobia
&
#misogyny
is showing. And I am getting sick and tired of people misusing the term
#transphobic
when there are real, horrible, damaging incidences of it happening every day. None of it from .
@ALLIANCELGB
@four_eels
I do the same โlook straight aheadโ thing when using the womens room. Now itโs starting to feel completely natural. And Iโve only ever been challenged once or twice; both times were like them: this is the womens room. Me: Iโm a woman. Them: silence
Local branches can be amazing.
@UCU_Stirling
prevented a series of spurious** complaints against me spiralling into constructive dismissal
But
@ucu
head office is seriously out of order
I would consider rejoining UCU if there is a candidate that can address the bloody elephant in the room - that UCU do not protect GC academics and have even played a hand in the open harassment of them.
Even just an acknowledgement of 'the Phoenix judgement' and what it means re
As a social scientist who uses large scale data sets it's also important for my research to be able to identify trends longitudinally. Taking sex out of the census renders this impossible: you can't go back in time and record gender accurately
Personally .
@NicolaSturgeon
's refusal to overpromise and underdeliver DOES give me hope
I am shielding, lost my father to
#COVID19
, haven't seen my mum in over a year, am caring for a
#depressed
teen
If anyone needs hope it's me and I have it
Ruth Davidson: Why won't the first minister give us hope?
It's not her job to give anyone hope Ruth. It's her job to tell us the truth. For fuck sakes.
โNo, Iโm not going to work with Alex Salmond...โ
After a competent 20min interview Nicola Sturgeonโs Pavlovian reaction to the mere mention of โher former mentorโ leaves her a diminished figure. Ridgeโs smirks suggest she finds the entirely predictable response amusing.
There's something rather important missing. What's it called again? Oh yeah. SEX. The most obvious, pervasive, cross context one. So obvious you forgot all about it in your rush to include everyone. Well done. .
@WEP_UK
@Dustmopp31
rum. Woke up on a Tunisian beach shortly after my 18th birthday with several friends and an empty bottle of Bacardi. I thought I was going to puke up my spleen. I can't even stand the smell now.
I'm tired of this trope that people who want an independent Scotland are anti-English.
England and Scotland vote for different parties and leaders, vote differently in crucial referendums and want a different future.
Acknowledging this reality is not anti-anyone.
I'll defend it. .
@scotgov
not mad keen on its citizens dying avoidable deaths. .
@UKParliament
don't seem to mind, in fact, seem quite keen, so long as it's poor, working class, BME, older or disabled folk.
Does that clarify it for you .
@Jackson_Carlaw
?
The Scottish Govt will defend their policy for tackling Coronavirus. Ministers will face criticism in a Holyrood debate from Scottish Conservatives questioning different stance between England & Scotland.
Leader
@ScotTories
@Jackson_Carlaw
#bbcgms
0735
It's absolutely right that people should be able to self-identify *gender* - whether they have a GRA certificate or not. They should also be able to identify as non-binary which the census doesn't allow for. We need to know BOTH sex AND gender information
'we'll work through lunch'
'extra time is unfair'
'other people manage it'
'we all have problems'
'we can't move meeting'
'I have pain too'
'we're all tired, darling'
'why should I move?'
'everyone works more hours'
'what, ANOTHER Dr's appt?'
#ableisminfourwords
My acutely
#depressed
teenager today left the house voluntarily to meet a friend. It's the first time in 2 years he has gone anywhere apart from school or to walk the dog.
I'm in bits. Such a small thing but so, so huge.
#mentalillness
@PriyamvadaGopal
This is a very common
#doxxing
technique used to silence
#women
#academics
they know universities have to examine every complaint no matter how little foundation, they rely on the process silencing us
FFS people if you are going to get an oldie like Richard Wilson trending can you at least use the
#IsNotDead
hashtag!!! Nearly got my tissues out and everything
Listening to Richard Wilson on
#desertislanddiscs
talk about moving in with Ian McKellen is a treat for the imagination. I want them to buy their mansion, do it up and film the process. Itโd be like Escape to the Chateaux but with two of my favourite old men.
Just because the complainant is misusing
#transgender
rights to bring the case doesnโt mean that is what the case is about. Forcing woc to carry out intimate work has nothing to do with with being transgender and has everything to do with being an abuser. Imho.
#immodestwomen
my PhD took 3 years bloody hard work. To earn Professor took another decade of hard work & my peers internationally valuing the quality & significance of that work. To be Mrs all I had to do was turn up drunk in a pretty dress. So yeah, use my proper title.
My first temping job I was responsible for ordering supplies for BT. I ordered what I thought was 2 metres of cable for a job and it turned out it was 2 miles. Massive lorry turned up. I got fired. Still one of my finest moments.
I stormed out of a meeting once and caught my sleeve on the door, ricocheted back inside and then slammed the door on my own face
I have a PhD, you know....
I LIVE in Germany.
I am a member of a German political party and am a delegate to its party congress.
I follow German politics for my job.
And, just maybe, I might know a thing or two about it?
to attract funding is a betrayal of the people you purportedly support. Nihilism - the 'death' you talk about - as a framework for understanding
#dementia
is rejected by EVERYONE doing any kind of decent work in the field including my amazing colleagues
@dementiacentre