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minus-squareArmand1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 day agoBBC article is pretty terrible, as is standard for anything they do covering trans rights. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/apr/29/sussex-university-overturns-fine-free-speech-kathleen-stock Basically: A transphobic professor left the university after she was protested against. The OfS decided to fine the university over £500 000 over this, calling it a freedom of speech issue. The high court overuled this. By the way, Peck, the chairman of OfS is a Zionist, as he says anti-Zionism is antisemitism. https://afcomm.org.uk/2025/03/12/what-the-next-head-of-the-office-for-students-gets-wrong-about-free-speech-on-campus/ Its interim CEO says hate speech bans should be abolished while sounding like a whiney bigot https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/18683/pdf/ And it’s previous CEO is the one that kicked this off. I haven’t even looked at the other members.
minus-squareAndy_R@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoZionist and Transphobic? Why are they always the worst people you can imagine.
minus-squareArmand1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·22 hours agoThat’s the sort of people the Conservatives and Forced Labour (Labour under Starmer) like to put in power. That said I’m not sure who actually elects these people. Could be unrelated.
BBC article is pretty terrible, as is standard for anything they do covering trans rights.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/apr/29/sussex-university-overturns-fine-free-speech-kathleen-stock
Basically:
By the way, Peck, the chairman of OfS is a Zionist, as he says anti-Zionism is antisemitism. https://afcomm.org.uk/2025/03/12/what-the-next-head-of-the-office-for-students-gets-wrong-about-free-speech-on-campus/
Its interim CEO says hate speech bans should be abolished while sounding like a whiney bigot https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/18683/pdf/
And it’s previous CEO is the one that kicked this off. I haven’t even looked at the other members.
Zionist and Transphobic? Why are they always the worst people you can imagine.
That’s the sort of people the Conservatives and Forced Labour (Labour under Starmer) like to put in power.
That said I’m not sure who actually elects these people. Could be unrelated.