A Daily Mail audit has revealed that top universities, including Russell Group institutions, are “queering the curriculum” to make courses more inclusive for transgender and non-binary students. Here’s an excerpt:
In one example, Warwick University has a ‘Queering University Programme’ which promotes “queer pedagogies and perspectives”.
It encourages teaching which is “inclusive of trans people” and advises lecturers to “include trans and gender diverse content in teaching”.
Meanwhile, Exeter University has produced a booklet written by students for academics, advising them to “include trans people in the curriculum” as part of a “trans inclusion booklet”.
It said there should be “more coverage of academics and theorists who are transgender” as “this will show that transgender identities are normal”.
In 2023, UCL’s prestigious Barlett architecture school produced a research paper called ‘Queering the Bartlett curriculum’.
It said the case for a “queer curriculum” is “particularly relevant in the built environment fields”.
The paper criticises architects’ “reliance” on single-sex toilets, claiming they are associated with “violence” and suggests “queer methodologies” could be embedded in architecture teaching.
This year, Leeds University’s medical school published research advocating “queering the curriculum”, asking: “Why is your medical curriculum straight?”
It suggests medical students learn about “non-traditional pregnancy and birth” as well as “diverse family structures”.
SOAS, University of London, said in 2022 guidance to staff that they should “embed trans, non-binary and intersex awareness into their curriculum” and invite guest lecturers who are “trans, non-binary or intersex”.
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“Nonetheless, it looks like the region may be in for a rough ride over the next few weeks.”
due to lockdown
It’s induced mass hysterical hypochondria, driven by sociopathic blinkers (at best). Simple as that.
We all recognize the syndrome whereby an angry spot can, in the minds of the anxious (let alone the terminally neurotic) become a massive tumor in the making. Of course, looking at it it every half hour makes it seem to grow ‘exponentially’.
This situation is that hypochondria writ large – with the cackling evil doctor telling the patient that the spot is terminal, rather than providing reassurance.
The distortion of thinking is immense. The unavoidable conclusion, however you arrive at it, is that government NPIs DON’T WORK – whether you believe in case fables or not, and the clear evidence now is that the effect is negative – simply extending the time that the virus takes to become normally endemic, with all the possible consequences of that on balanced population immunity and the development of the virus.
The hard fact for the fanatics is that seven worse years of mortality have passed in the last quarter century with no paranoid measurement or insane deprivations of liberty – without anyone taking much notice.
If you look at the excess mortality graph, there was no “first wave” in Eastern Europe in spring 2020 – that “first wave” is happening now.
So the answer to the question in the headline is “No.”