@JamesEsses - James Esses
Retailer @thenorthface are offering 20% off if you complete their “digital course in racial inclusion”. Customers are told that “white privilege grants access to the outdoors” and warns others are “excluded” from the outdoors because of “racism”. Woke capitalism at its worst. https://t.co/RiJK1KzLwI
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🚨Important Thread 🧵- ‘Transgender and Non-Binary Inclusion at Work Guide’. Today, this Guide was published by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) - the leading body for HR professionals, with over 160,000 members. It is shocking: (1/15)
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CIPD claims to have consulted with a “broad range of stakeholders”. Instead, the Acknowledgements page is a roll call of trans activists, including Gendered Intelligence, Global Butterflies, Rainbow Trust and Trans Actual. Where was Sex Matters or Thoughtful Therapists? (2/15)
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The Guide is filled with ideological language. Terms like “deadnaming” and “assigned male at birth” are used. Professionals are told that it is crucial to be “honouring and caring about trans and non-binary people’s self of self” and to outwardly demonstrate “allyship”. (3/15)
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CIPD states: “there was a broad consensus within the literature reviewed…that gender is a person’s sense of self as a man, woman or non-binary person”. Except, we aren’t told which literature, merely that it was from “reputable bodies”. Reputable according to whom? (4/15)
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The Guide seeks to divide and misrepresent. It says that the term ‘cisgender’ is “used by cisgender allies who recognise that trans and non-binary people exist and matter”. Does that mean those of us who reject the term ‘cisgender’ don’t recognise that fellow humans matter? (5/15)
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It is disingenuous and sly. The concept of biological sex is described by CIPD as a “belief”. However, ‘trans’ is defined as “someone whose gender is not the same as the sex they were assigned at birth”. Why is biological reality a belief but gender ideology a fact? (6/15)
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On toilets and changing rooms, the Guide’s core message is that people should be able to “use the facilities they feel comfortable with”. It also suggests that “installing curtain rails in communal changing rooms” could be a suitable alternative to single-sex facilities. (7/15)
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CIPD encourages ludicrous practices. They provide a case study of an employee who presents as one gender in the office and another gender when speaking to clients. They use two email addresses and have agreed signals so colleagues know which gender they will present as. (8/15)
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Shockingly, they misrepresent the law. They state: “it would be unlawful to deliberately misgender someone”. Not true. Forstater says nothing about circumstances in which misgendering will amount to harassment. This is for a Tribunal to determine on the facts of a case. (9/15)
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Even though CIPD attempt to back both horses, they are complicit in diluting the concept of biological sex and what it means to be a woman. They recommend using the phrase “women and people experiencing the menopause”. Only women experience the menopause. Men don’t. (10/15)
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The Guide pushes gender ideology, even if it flies in the face of logic. They recommend “consulting with trans and non-binary staff to discuss how they wish to be reported”, including for data relating to the gender pay gap. (11/15)
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CIPD seek to placate proponents of gender ideology, even if it comes at great cost to organisations. For example, it recommends that all internal systems are changed to ensure they are “more inclusive of a range of gender identities and experiences”. (12/15)
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Finally, they seek to sneak gender ideology in through the back door by encouraging organisations to sell the “benefits” of everyone declaring pronouns, on the basis that it will assist “international colleagues or those with less typically gendered names”. (13/15)
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The CIPD may mention the cases of Forstater and Bailey but this is nothing more than lip service. This is indulging one group in the name of ideology to the detriment of others in the name of reality. The fact that this body is so influential should concern us all. (14/15)
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Here is the link to the full Guide: https://www.cipd.org/uk/knowledge/guides/transgender-non-binary/ (15/15)
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Yesterday, after posting a Tweet saying that I reject the word ‘cis’ and don’t wish to be called it, I receive a slew of messages from trans activists calling me “cissy” and telling me that I am ‘cis’ “whether or not I like it”. Just imagine if the roles were reversed.
@elonmusk - Elon Musk
@JamesEsses Repeated, targeted harassment against any account will cause the harassing accounts to receive, at minimum, temporary suspensions. The words “cis” or “cisgender” are considered slurs on this platform.
@WomenReadWomen - Genevieve Gluck
@elonmusk @JamesEsses Thank you! And for those who don't know, here is some background on the origin of "cisgender," as coined by German sexologist Volkmar Sigusch. https://t.co/09oyTRcFz6
@elonmusk - Elon Musk
@WomenReadWomen @JamesEsses Yup, the contemptible creep that manufactured the term “cis” has serious problems. Ignore him.
@JamesEsses - James Esses
Yesterday, after posting a Tweet saying that I reject the word ‘cis’ and don’t wish to be called it, I receive a slew of messages from trans activists calling me “cissy” and telling me that I am ‘cis’ “whether or not I like it”. Just imagine if the roles were reversed.
@elonmusk - Elon Musk
@JamesEsses Repeated, targeted harassment against any account will cause the harassing accounts to receive, at minimum, temporary suspensions. The words “cis” or “cisgender” are considered slurs on this platform.