Once you go down the road of PC politics you are trapped by your own warped logic .....
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone with a normal view of the world. But when you are educational establishment that professes that it has ‘sympathy with the idea that gender is not binary' then the politics of sexual identity become Byzantine.
Ironically Murray Edwards was set up as an all-women college of Cambridge University, which is not sexist like setting up an all male college ..... somehow.
But that bit of hypocrisy aside, its now fallen into the trap of having to allow males in, but only if they are ‘living as female’, even if their new gender has not been legally recognised. In the past they have accepted students who had their reassignment recognised under the Gender Recognition Act.
Of course we are assuming that these transgender students has enough time to actually pass their A level studies and get the very high grades required by ordinary students to enter such an august centre of learning .... or is that too much to expect?
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This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone with a normal view of the world. But when you are educational establishment that professes that it has ‘sympathy with the idea that gender is not binary' then the politics of sexual identity become Byzantine.
Ironically Murray Edwards was set up as an all-women college of Cambridge University, which is not sexist like setting up an all male college ..... somehow.
But that bit of hypocrisy aside, its now fallen into the trap of having to allow males in, but only if they are ‘living as female’, even if their new gender has not been legally recognised. In the past they have accepted students who had their reassignment recognised under the Gender Recognition Act.
Of course we are assuming that these transgender students has enough time to actually pass their A level studies and get the very high grades required by ordinary students to enter such an august centre of learning .... or is that too much to expect?
The idea that the LGBT make up anything more than a small element of society is faintly ridiculous. To pander to them as we do is down right ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteThe inability of our rulers - and make no mistake the chancellors of educational establishments consider themselves to be from the upper end of our culture - to defend any aspect of the societal values that produced them is going to be our downfall. It's no wonder that the certainty of thought of other ideologies is so popular amongst certain groups.
DeleteI guess that if asked the University Chancellors would defend themselves by saying that special rules for certain interest groups was defending our liberal traditions.
Personally I believe that usually they are merely going through the same mechanical response that they do for black or 'wimmin's' groups. They are terrified of pressure groups and even their own students.
However in this particular case, and in this college, I believe that there was some kind of vote on the rule changes. So it's a representation of the Vox Populi. in some sense.
Thanks for the comment, although I wish people would leave a name (even a false one).