There is this new website for women in academia called
https://gcacademianetwork.weebly.com/#
It's for GC women who are fed up with the trans narrative invading every part of academia.
Men can post on it too but it's mostly for women who teach, or study at a university. It's obviously anonomous.
A lot of grim shit like this:
I am an early career academic working in the field of law. I am absolutely appalled at the behaviour of people that I used to respect in how they have tried to shut down debate and smeared the reputations of anyone who disagrees with them. I have seen events cancelled on my campus due to pressure from student groups who labelled the speaker a TERF, despite no actual evidence of transphobia. I have seen colleagues bullied and vilified on social media for daring to speak out, and I have had students come to me, scared that they are not allowed to discuss certain topics in their dissertations.
I do not feel safe to be open about my views. I think that this would ultimately lead to the loss of my employment and I am not prepared to sacrifice my livelihood for this. However, I have made a pact with myself that I will absolutely not use the term 'gender' when I in fact mean 'sex' and that I will not change my writing to appease reviewers and allow it to take on a meaning that I did not intend. I would rather withdraw the article in that case. This may not sound like a lot but it allows me to keep some shred of integrity.
I feel absolute despair that I work in a discipline traditionally renowned for precision, the importance of the meaning of words, truth, and justice, yet all this is being disregarded for some vague and offensive notion of gendered identity. I now wonder what the hell I was thinking when I wanted to work in academia.
My colleagues who currently seem to be embracing the free pass to indulge in misogyny should note that I have a long memory and I keep receipts. I won't forget this. I hope that the future will bring an end to the witch-hunting. When this happens, I want to hold certain people to account for the damage they caused to feminists who just want to protect women's fundamental and hard-fought for rights.
Or this:
These comments break my heart... I’m a mature student in my mid 30’s and have gone back to study with the aim of a second career in academia after having children. My university is probably considered one of the most woke in the uk, I’ve heard the lecturers demonise ‘cis white males’ in a lecture with lots of cis white males in attendance, demonise second wave feminism and try to frame gender identity as having biological roots. It’s literally impossible to even ask questions let alone challenge the narrative. I’m now considering finding another career path as it’s just so unbearable. I have deep sinking feeling and anxiety when I think about it and doing everything online has actually been a breath of fresh air. I went into academia to precisely delve into the difficulties of society, instead even history is framed as problematic. I can’t wait for the end of my current course and am really debating about furthering my education. You can’t get a campus nursery place without booking a year in advance yet there’s a coffee morning, dedicated month and grievance galore for everyone but women.
Or this:
I attended the University of Manchester. My university's LGBT society wanted us all to state our pronouns on signing up during Fresher's Week. I am a lesbian who was often told she was 'not a real woman' many times growing up, so this was uncomfortable. I felt that it meant that trans issues were going to be prioritised in the group over perhaps lesbian ones, and the newsletter they sent out just added to that effect. Although not a trans activist demand, there seemed to be no space for lesbians on campus and at times, I found it difficult being the only out LGBT person on my course of around 300 people. Even lecturers would occasionally make homophobic comments.
Trans activists also had gender neutral toilets installed in the student union and in other buildings. These felt somewhat unsafe and overall reduced the provision available for female students (the other toilets had mainly urinals and so could not be used by female students). These toilets seemed rarely used, which could have meant that other students also felt unfomfortable. I believe this was changed in 2008 for a small number of activists but as far as I know applied to about 1/3 of the toilets on campus. This in spite of the fact that some older buildings still had no women's toilet at all.
Julie Bindel dropped out of a talk in 2013 as she was threatened with rape when she was due to give a talk on porn at the Student Union, a year before I joined. This was when some of my friends were also attending the University.
I had heard some rumours [redacted] was someone to be avoided, but nothing was ever really said in detail. I may be wrong, but I think [redacted] may also have tried to run as the LGBT officer early on when I was at university. The name was certainly familiar to me by the time that I left.