Levi Pay
@soppystern
Director of higher education training/consultancy org. Personal 𝕏 a/c. Former (very former) EDI/equality director. Favourite word: boundaries.
This is a book I shared with my parents when I came out to them at the age of 17. We’re constantly told being trans today is like being gay in the 80s/90s. I’d like to share some advice from the book. How similar is this is to what the LGBTQ+ sector says to today’s teens? …🧵
Michael’s marvellous Substack videos about each day of Peggie v NHS Fife has definitely taken the top spot for my end of the day viewing, bumping The White Lotus down to its new “only if there’s time and if I have the energy” second place status.
Very interesting day today in Peggie v NHS Fife and Beth Upton. I need to run a quick errand but then will get back and look at notes before going live to discuss - likely to be after 5.30.
It must be so odd to be Sandie Peggie right now. Frankly, it must be odd to be Beth Upton right now too. I have a great deal more empathy for Sandie Peggie than for Beth Upton, but, no matter what Beth Upton did or didn't do, I am not convinced all this is fair on him either. I…
When you've literally just been born and you already can't stand people.
We live in a world in which it would seem to be both memorable and remarkable for a nurse, a medically trained nurse, to say that it is not possible to change sex. I am so tired of this silliness.
MC I'd heard her say it's not poss to change sex JR When met DU? MC At induction teaching session as a F2 dr JR Re recruitment to ED MC Its a jr clinical fellow post. A non- clin training role who may want to pursue ED or get more experience. Is advertised as a 12 month
Black...claimed the party's "capitulation on LGBT rights, trans rights in particular" had been an issue for her. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… "LGBT rights, trans rights in particular" is a great turn of phrase to sum up the whole sorry state of a movement.
Increasingly wondering if the main divide in public life is between those who have rarely been told no and those who have rarely been told anything other than no
A friend of mine asked me recently when people started calling it *the* patriarchy, instead of just ‘patriarchy’. She didn’t like the ‘the’. I thought that was a very interesting distinction and observation.
I love people who reject nominations, honours and titles. There's a mix of humility and arrogance in it that I find really engaging.
A 2015 press cutting on Larkin’s rejection of nomination for the Oxford Professorship of Poetry. ‘My idea of hell on earth…is a literary party, and I have an uneasy feeling that the post carries with it a lot of sherry-drill with important people.’
One thing that really strikes me - not just about this case, but about every conversation about sex and gender issues these days - is just how far the gender woo has undermined people's ability to have normal conversations, both at home and at work. It is beyond walking on…
LH says she asked Sandie about her well being and says she didn't really know what else to say.
“The gender that was given to me at birth” The language sounds more religious with each passing year. Gold, frankincense, myrrh and gender were upon the newborn infant bestowed. Who giveth this child their gender?
KS I asked IB and there's no other policy to dispute this NC IB told the tribunal that she doesnt know if she's F or M. Do u know yr F? It's on my birth certificate But u know yr F? KS That's the gender that was given to me at birth. The sex.
Congrats on the appeal being permitted to go ahead, @McBrideVersus
Academia’s conception of a free-thinker: someone who finds out what the free-thinkers are thinking, & thinks that
I love this @QueerMajority article from @LisaSelinDavis. The last four paragraphs sum up so much of how I have felt about myself for a couple of years. The fears, the certainty, the finding of a marvellous assembly of brave and interesting and intelligent fellow apostates. A…
“I let my need to be a heretic derail my ability to voice valid concerns about youth gender issues.” - @LisaSelinDavis 🔥: queermajority.com/essays-all/the…
I wonder if anyone can help me source something. I’m working on a project connected with ‘compassion’ on behalf of a university. I remember hearing or reading - I can’t remember where - the idea that the problem today is not a lack of compassion in the world, but rather the…
Completely agree with Diane Abbott’s substantive point here. However, I am so exhausted by this language of “the most vulnerable” and “the most marginalised”, even from people I agree with on an issue. This kind of rhetoric always feels to me like a trick, a tactic…a claim…
There is no doubt that if this Bill is passed in its current form, people will lose their lives who do not need to. They will be among the most vulnerable and marginalised in our society.
Stephen Fry sneering at JK Rowling in front of a live audience - when he has made it very clear, previously, that he knows sterilising kids and dismantling women’s single-sex spaces, services and sports are wrong - is the epitome of scapegoating. It’s incurious, it’s cowardly…
The tombstone of Hannah Twynnoy in the churchyard of Malmesbury abbey. She was the first English woman to be killed by a tiger.