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UnHerd @unherd.com · Jul 2

A new report details the grim censorship and bullying faced by gender-critical academics. Hopefully this is finally taken seriously by the higher education establishment | Jo Phoenix
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New report exposes campaign to silence gender-critical academics

Gender-critical academics have for the past decade found life very difficult on campus. The Sullivan Review, published yesterday, is a painstaking account of the experiences of academics who were…

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Jul 2

Universities ‘failing to protect gender-critical staff’, report finds.

Universities have failed to protect their gender-critical staff from bullying and harassment, according to a report investigating barriers to research on sex and gender identity.

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Universities ‘failing to protect gender-critical staff’, report finds - Research Professional News

Alice Sullivan warns high-profile cases are the “tip of the iceberg”

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Review of Data, Statistics and Research on Sex and Gender @sullivan-review.bsky.social · Jul 2

'UK universities have been infiltrated by woke EDI culture that is stifling research into controversial issues like puberty blockers, major report warns' @dailymail.co.uk

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UK universities have been 'infiltrated by woke EDI culture' - report

The review, commissioned by the last Government, said academics are being 'bullied' if they dare to question transgender ideology.

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Review of Data, Statistics and Research on Sex and Gender @sullivan-review.bsky.social · Jul 2

'Researchers investigating vital issues have been subjected to sustained campaigns of intimidation simply for acknowledging the biological and social importance of sex' @theguardian.com

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UK universities have failed to protect gender-critical academics, report finds

Report’s author raises ‘stark concerns about barriers to academic freedom’

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Review of Data, Statistics and Research on Sex and Gender @sullivan-review.bsky.social · Jul 2

'Research ethics and events management processes can stifle debate and restrict academic freedom, claims government-commissioned paper' @timeshighered.bsky.social

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‘Excessive bureaucracy’ used to block ‘gender-critical’ research

Research ethics and events management processes can stifle debate and restrict academic freedom, claims government-commissioned paper

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Review of Data, Statistics and Research on Sex and Gender @sullivan-review.bsky.social · Jul 2

'Universities did not protect gender-critical academics from harassment – report' @expressandstar.com

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Universities did not protect gender-critical academics from harassment – report

It concluded that staff and students who harass researchers who have questioned the gender-identity theory should face consequences.

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Review of Data, Statistics and Research on Sex and Gender @sullivan-review.bsky.social · Jul 2

Bullying over gender-critical views ‘stifles academic research’

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Bullying over gender-critical views ‘stifles academic research’

Work on issues related to sex and gender is being undermined as universities fail to protect staff from being harassed over their beliefs, a report has found

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Review of Data, Statistics and Research on Sex and Gender @sullivan-review.bsky.social · Jul 2

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Review of Data, Statistics and Research on Sex and Gender @sullivan-review.bsky.social · Jul 2

@profalices.bsky.social column in the Times.

'Universities pay a price for selling out gender critics

They have created excessive bureaucratic processes which have become levers for activists seeking to stifle dissenting voices'

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Universities pay a price for selling out gender critics

They have created excessive bureaucratic processes which have become levers for activists seeking to stifle dissenting voices

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Review of Data, Statistics and Research on Sex and Gender @sullivan-review.bsky.social · Jul 2

The Sullivan Review part 2: 'Barriers to research on sex and gender' was published today.

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Sullivan Review: Publications

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Review of Data, Statistics and Research on Sex and Gender @sullivan-review.bsky.social · May 15

Links to the full report and addendum:

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Sullivan Review: About

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Review of Data, Statistics and Research on Sex and Gender @sullivan-review.bsky.social · May 15

Our recommendations are not changed by the Supreme Court judgment. Rather, the judgment removes any possible uncertainty regarding the appropriate target of data collection for the purposes of equalities monitoring on the protected characteristic of sex.

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Review of Data, Statistics and Research on Sex and Gender @sullivan-review.bsky.social · May 15

The addendum has been submitted to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

We hope it will prove useful for organisations digesting the implications of the supreme court judgment for data collection.

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Review of Data, Statistics and Research on Sex and Gender @sullivan-review.bsky.social · May 15

Following the Supreme Court judgment on the meaning of "sex" in the 2010 Equality Act, we have published an addendum to our report on data and statistics on sex and gender.

This explains how the judgment dovetails with the recommendations of the review.

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Sullivan Review: Addendum to first report

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Professor Alice Sullivan @profalices.bsky.social · Mar 31

My fellow data nerds will enjoy this 📈📉📊

"The quantitative data scientists may not inherit the earth, but it seems we desperately need them to make sense of it."

@sullivan-review.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social

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Trans rights minorities have captured Britain’s institutions

Prof Alice Sullivan, author of a new report on gender and sex, talks Wes Streeting, the ideological capture of the NHS and being cancelled

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Review of Data, Statistics and Research on Sex and Gender @sullivan-review.bsky.social · Mar 31

An interview with @profalices.bsky.social in @telegraphnews.bsky.social

"unfortunately people in a great many organisations don’t understand data collection as a discipline and have been taking advice from other people who don’t understand it either"

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Trans rights minorities have captured Britain’s institutions

Prof Alice Sullivan, author of a new report on gender and sex, talks Wes Streeting, the ideological capture of the NHS and being cancelled

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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · Mar 24

The government commissioned 'Independent review of data, statistics and research on sex and gender' @sullivan-review.bsky.social was published on Wednesday. Led by @profalices.bsky.social of @sriucl.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social

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Independent review of data, statistics and research on sex and gender

An independent review by Professor Alice Sullivan that looks at data, statistics and research on sex and gender.

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Review of Data, Statistics and Research on Sex and Gender @sullivan-review.bsky.social · Mar 23

The Times @thetimes.com leader:

“There is another lesson from the Sullivan Review: never again should an unelected lobby group be allowed to ride roughshod over objective reality, and take British bureaucracy with it.”

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The absence of data on biological sex is an affront to reality

The 226-page report into how official data on sex and gender is recorded, by Professor Alice Sullivan of University College London, exposes shocking gaps in public records due to confusion between

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Dr Kathryn Webb @drkathrynwebb.bsky.social · Mar 23

The Observer editorial on @sullivan-review.bsky.social:

"A report lays bare the extent of real-world detriment caused by institutions that have caved in to activist pressures"

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The Observer view on gender data: failure to accurately record biological sex harms us all | Observer editorial

A report lays bare the extent of real-world detriment caused by institutions that have caved in to activist pressures

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Review of Data, Statistics and Research on Sex and Gender @sullivan-review.bsky.social · Mar 21

"From the NHS to the police, how the obsession with gender captured the public sector" Jill Foster @telegraphnews.bsky.social

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From the NHS to the police, how the obsession with gender captured the public sector

Data collected by public bodies has been ‘corrupted’ as a result of conflating gender with sex, a report says, posing risks to individuals

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Review of Data, Statistics and Research on Sex and Gender @sullivan-review.bsky.social · Mar 20

Children barred from getting new trans identity with NHS

Health Secretary orders doctors to stop issuing new numbers and medical records to under-18s following damning safeguarding review

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Review of Data, Statistics and Research on Sex and Gender @sullivan-review.bsky.social · Mar 20

We welcome this prompt and decisive step to implement our recommendation.

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Wes Streeting bans NHS changing children's gender on medical records

A review into the 'corruption' of official statistics by extreme gender ideology found there is currently no minimum age at which the record of a child's sex can be changed.

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Review of Data, Statistics and Research on Sex and Gender @sullivan-review.bsky.social · Mar 20

The Telegraph @telegraphnews.bsky.social front page headline

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Review of Data, Statistics and Research on Sex and Gender @sullivan-review.bsky.social · Mar 20

The Times @thetimes.com front page

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