The greatest achievement of gender critical ideology is getting women to voluntarily give men jurisdiction to police their bodies and presentation. To the Rowlings and Parkers, any number of cisgender women hurt by their ideology is worth it in their quest of erasing trans people out of public life.
France and Spain at least have got some programs going. How effective they'll be, time will tell. Regardless, I think Europe is going to receive a lot of young researchers from third countries that were planning on a PhD or postdoc in the us before this administration.
You forgot the tiny detail that their feelings don't care about facts.
Plus, the 1948 definition of genocide only qualified racial, ethnic, national and religious groups as possible victims of genocide. LGBTQ people were defined out of the genocide they were suffering. Quite comfy for the Allies back then, and to Holocaust denialists and gender critical ideologists today.
The greatest achievement of gender critical ideology is getting women to voluntarily give men jurisdiction to police their bodies and presentation.
Now the signatures have to be verified by each member country's authorities. Unverifiable support may bring the petition back under 1M signatures. Sign if you haven't! Keep spreading!
Countries that have reached and exceeded their minimum signature threshold: Belgium, Spain, Finland, France, Ireland, Netherlands.
How long? Negative three months, apparently: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/04/us/ice-impersonators-on-the-rise-arrests-made-as-authorities-issue-national-warning/index.html
It's used as a spearhead issue to warm people up to the idea of excluding trans folk from public life. Here's prominent transphobe activist Helen Joyce admitting it publicly:
Compsci, the only degree where more women graduate than started it 3-4 years prior.
As someone who writes GPU code for work, the nvidia stock going down makes me happy. We still need a true open source alternative to CUDA, but in the meantime, them losing value is better than the alternative.
Let's hope this movement gets somewhere, because as it stands, a change.org petition is too little too late.