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Law Lecturer Sacked by Open University After Complaining of Gender Identity ‘Indoctrination’

by Toby Young
19 August 2023 7:00 AM

Louisa Clarence-Smith has written a piece in today’s Telegraph about the Free Speech Union’s latest case: Dr. Almut Gadow, an Open University Law Lecturer who was sacked for gross misconduct after raising concerns about the inclusion of gender identity ideology in the law curriculum. Among other things, students were expected to use the preferred gender pronouns of trans-identifying male prisoners. Here’s an extract:

Dr. Almut Gadow, 43, has alleged that in 2021-22, the University’s equality, diversity and inclusion department announced plans to “incorporate its political ideologies” across the curriculum.

She claimed that she raised concerns about requirements, including introducing diverse gender identities into the curriculum and teaching students to use offenders’ preferred pronouns.

She said she argued that a criminal lawyer’s role “is to present facts” and that “sex is a relevant fact for offences involving perpetrators’ and/or victims’ bodies”.

Dr. Gadow also argued that “no offender should be allowed to dictate the language of his case in a way which masks relevant facts”.

She also told colleagues that not holding a gender identity belief was a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010.

Dr. Gadow was told that her posts relating to gender identity in the online forum amounted to “serious insubordination” because she had been told it was not the place for such discussions.

She was told that her persistence in posting comments on issues relating to gender identity and gender identity belief, paedophilia, and sex offending amounted to “serious bullying and harassment”.

The content of several of her posts was a breach of the university’s transgender staff policy because they may “create an environment in the forum that isn’t inclusive, trans-friendly, or respectful”, she was told.

She was sacked for gross misconduct in November.

Dr. Gadow, who is being supported by the Free Speech Union and is crowdfunding for her case, claims she was harassed, discriminated against, and unfairly dismissed because she rejects gender ideology and believes in academic freedom.

She told the Telegraph that she believed the university’s “liberating curriculum” policy was “effectively a checklist of ideological compliance”.

Dr. Gadow has drawn comparisons between her sacking and the experience of Hartmut Gadow, her Jewish grandfather, in Nazi Germany. He was an undergraduate who studied at an illicit underground institution when the Nazis cleansed academia of “wrong thinkers”.

He was repeatedly tried for speech crimes and sentenced to death by hanging, but managed to escape.

Dr. Gadow said: “Generally, this academia being taken over by a political movement, is not a question of Left or Right. It is a question of totalitarianism.

“We have seen it under both regimes. I didn’t think it would happen like that in England, to be quite honest.”

In her legal claim, she hopes to set a precedent that establishes academic freedom as a protected belief.

“Establishing this in law could protect many other academics whose careers are threatened by the rising tide of intolerance on U.K. campuses,” she said.

If you’d like to support Dr. Gadow, please donate to her CrowdJustice fundraiser. As Kathleen Stock says:

This is a very important case, with potentially far-reaching repercussions for the university sector.

It demonstrates the link between highly ideological, terminologically vague equality, diversity and inclusion policies – which are rife across the sector – and acts of discrimination against university members for their lawful beliefs.

It also shows how university pedagogy is being unreasonably constrained by a narrow set of shallow ideas, high on emotion and low on evidence, at the behest of activist groups.

Tags: Dr Almut GadowGender Critical BeliefsGender Identity IdeologyThe Equality Act 2010The Open University

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Sforzesca
Sforzesca
1 year ago

And, the sheep quietly graze while outrages like this happen with disturbing regularity.
Sometimes I think I awoke into another universe 3.5 years ago.
And, for God’s sake never even hint at there being any parallel with 1920’s Germany.

Slightly off topic maybe, but I can recommend this from the Brownstone Institute –

https://brownstone.org/articles/letter-from-the-forbidden-land/

Quite a good synopsis of Western Clown World….

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago

Generally, this academia being taken over by a political movement, is not a question of Left or Right.

We have seen it under both regimes.

Wrong. Nazism was a socialist, left wing ideology.

I’m afraid that the totalitarian impulse is essentially a left wing one. Nazism, Fascism, Communism, Soviet socialism, Maoism and that most insane of them all, the brutality of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. All left wing projects.

As I’ve said before, one of the greatest triumphs and cons of the left is to convince the world that the sectarian left wing fight between Nazism.and Communism was a battle between extreme right and extreme left when it is actually a fight between toe extreme left ideologies.

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago
Reply to  stewart

What’s the point? If parents are stupid enough to pay to send their thick kids to this kind of establishment then I say good luck to em!
Sorry Greta, but this is how you steal the future!!!

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Prophet Orwell
Prophet Orwell
1 year ago
Reply to  stewart

Yes, one of the finest tricks in history the left have pulled is to make the masses believe that the Nazi’s were ‘far right’ when in fact they were actually middle of the road socialists.

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Hester
Hester
1 year ago

As with ULEZ, as was the case with all the lies and tyranny in Covid, and now just like this the Government, Parliament etc will do nothing. People must stand up to the lies if they want it to stop, people like those during Covid who refused the mask, who refused to be a Lab Rat, people must just refuse to go along with ULEZ, refuse to pay the fines, the charges, and they must refuse to play along with this required speech that is all about spouting a lie at the behest of tyrants, who know its a lie, but if they can force speech upon you, just like they forced masks, injections, and lies regarding saving the environment, they have you, they control you and they know they can do anything to you, all they have to do is threaten. It won’t stop until we refuse to comply.

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago
Reply to  Hester

There are two sexes. Male and female. End of story. That’s what I tell and will continue to tell everyone on the subject

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

Indoctrination with this BS starts from when kids are babies, if they’re unfortunate enough to be born to the cult members, which is tragic. What is doubly tragic is that it always appears to be at the hands of the mother. Once again, where is the dad? Is he behind the camera? What role does he play in all of this? This perplexes and intrigues me because I haven’t come across an explanation for the family dynamic which would result in this psychological disaster yet. Any psychiatrists in the house??

https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1692610159195902263

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago

The girl/it/they/them/cat.. in the picture has thoughts and beliefs so strong they’ve seeped through her skull and imprinted on her hat!

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RW
RW
1 year ago

In her legal claim, she hopes to set a precedent that establishes academic freedom as a protected belief.

Can’t these false-flaggers just go home and stay there? In her legal claim, she hopes to establish that sex isn’t real but just a belief. Fixed that for you. You’re wrong.

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