Inclusive in what sense?
Imagine being an academic and seeing your union shout this:
We know that by “trans rights” they mean not the human rights that everyone has but special invented luxury rights that cancel the rights of other people, especially women. If men who call themselves women have the “right” to go everywhere women can go, then women don’t have some rights we’ve depended on for a long time. If men who call themselves women have the “right” to compete against women in sports then women lose the right to compete against women. If men who call themselves women have the “right” to win prizes for women, then women won’t win prizes any more. And so on. Men can’t idennify themselves into the female category without taking things away from women. Men with a shred of decency wouldn’t want to do that, but trans “activism” attracts men who lack that tiny shred.
Also, academics are supposed to be reasonably clever and thoughtful. Trans ideology is childish nonsense. Make it make sense.
Reason #1,758,349 why trans ideology is analogous to religion. As my secondary school RE teacher, a strict Methodist, told me once when I said that so little of the Bible made sense that I couldn’t understand how I was supposed to accept it as the truth, “You don’t need to understand, boy, you just need to believe.”
Yes, this is an ongoing problem…
Stuff happening at work – “Join the Union!”, except they’re explicitly saying that they have no interest in protecting half the population (more than that, since female workers are more likely to need that protection).
Men in frocks are sooo much more important than the boring women who do all the actual work. They can’t be trusted to do the most basic aspects of their function as a union – why should any of us give them money to waste on this, knowing that they will continue to ignore the law.
UCU have decided that men’s fetishes are more important than women’s basic safety, leaving those who actually need a union scrambling for alternatives – and all the time, the same problems persist in the workplace. If they can’t manage this, what else are they going to screw up? None of their information can be trusted.
This is why I still haven’t joined…