UNI STUDENT SUSPENDED AND SENT FOR POLITICAL RE-EDUCATION AFTER EXPRESSING GENDER CRITICAL VIEWS!
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Connie Shaw, the 20 year-old Leeds University undergraduate suspended from hosting a student radio show after expressing gender-critical views joined Andrew Doyle on GB News show 'Free Speech Nation' to discuss her shocking case.
Ms Shaw, who is also a member of the Free Speech Union (FSU), was handed a “notice of suspension” by Leeds Student Union (LSU) after a complaint was raised with Leeds Student Radio (LSR) about her social media activity.
Her alleged ‘speech crimes’ include writing a post for Irish comedy writer and gender-critical campaigner Graham Linehan's Substack, voicing criticism of Leeds University’s alleged capture by gender ideology, and hosting prominent ‘detransitioner’ Charlie Bentley-Astor on her own persona podcast show.
Rather than tipping their hats to a media-savvy student with a critical and open mind, LSU officials suspended her from the LSR committee having decreed that her actions brought the radio station into disrepute, violated its “values, ethos and expectations”, and failed to uphold “a duty of care to all society members”.
Ms Shaw has since been told that she will remain barred unless she sends “a written apology to the membership” and agrees to attend an online political re-education course.
The FSU has now warned Leeds University of potential legal action. In a letter, we’ve pointed out that the institution’s treatment of our member amounts to direct discrimination contrary to the Equality Act 2010, which counts gender-critical beliefs as protected beliefs.
We are also appealing LSU’s decision on Ms Shaw’s behalf, and have promised to support the third-year philosophy undergraduate if she chooses to lodge a discrimination claim.
Find out more about Connie's case at the link below.
freespeechunio...
"re education" sounds particularly orwellian
Along with 'CHANGING YOUR THINKING!'
That's what I thought
Communist! The Chinese govt is always "re-educating" dissidents...if they're lucky. Otherwise it's torture and murder.
Yes they all want us to play their game of pretend with grown ups. I will not comply.
The thought police at work. 😳
The irony of being excluded for not being inclusive!
It's just a dog whistle nowadays for "you need to submit fully and not have your own thoughts"
@nothing-jl2dz
Not only submit but celebrate it even if it’s against your will.
She tried to "include" the voices of de-transitioners.
She was inclusive so they excluded her
Not to mention the stupidity, ignorance, pomposity and sanctimony!
They accuse her of not being ‘inclusive’. But isn’t the administration EXCLUDING and harming detransitioners? Hypocrisy.
@@RC-qf3mp absolutely
Groupthink is not an ideal philosophy to be the norm in a centre for academic learning.
Tyranny not hypocrisy....
And as mentioned, creating a divide between those supporting the deluded and the females who get most affected by such nonsense.
Of course it's hypocrisy.
That’s fascism ! Name and shame the person responsible for doing this to this lady .
The majority of students at LU, the admin of LU, the government of UK and all who vote for them. But none of them have any shame - that's reserved for decent honest people like us.
@@Merlin3189 It was all revealed by Yuri Bezmaenov in his defection from the USSR that this was an active program to subvert the West by creating in Universities this anti-everything, anti-people frictioon ! Has now taken on a life of its own among the Left of politics !
It's also communism, it's straight out of the playback for Stalin, Mao, Hitler and Franco. "“Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future." Controlling the media is so important
If you think you are immune to being made to conform the the views of the few, the remember Martin Niemöller
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me.
look up the definition of fascist before you start sprouting.
I am full of admiration for this woman and for those who support honesty and truth and refuse to be brainwashed by bovine manure.
so, uh what are YOU doing to fight back? ARE YOU one of those afraid to out publicly but agree privately?
@@jackrainbow560 And who are you?
@jackrainbow560 not sure if you are addressing me or if your statement was a generic one. But this may come as a shock , no one is obliged to be answerable to you, and freedom of speech should include the ability to agree or disagree publicly or privately. Or are you a supporter of the thought policeing policy?
@jackrainbow560 not sure if you are are addressing me or your comment is a generic one. However no one is answerable to you or needs to justify themselves to you. Other people are able to make up their own minds as to whether they agree or disagree with any other peoples opinions in public or in private, or do you adhere to the thought policing policies .
Mandatory manure brainwash.
A young woman who stands out from her peers as intelligent and articulate.
Name and shame the individuals who are persecuting this young woman.
Exactly they need to be held accountable and explain themselves for abusing this woman’s rights.
Her persecutors will receive OBEs in the next honours list.
Probably.
They wear bureaucratic masks...
@@thelibrarian3734 nah, they rely on anonymity to spout their shite and not be held to account.
They need too be dragged before a peoples tribunal to hear their sentencing!
The left are NUTS
This reveals how insidious this repressive culture is on campus. Student unions at their most Maoist,with their Star chambers demanding that students recant publicly .A very courageous young lady, thankfully FSU has taken up the cudgels on her behalf.
Yes. The repression of pro-Palestinian campaigners is appalling.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx not to mention the government literally tried to deny the farmers right to protest
it took me two minutes to find she was the chair of the feminist society when she was at school. good fro free speech are they, feminists? he asked knowingly. or do they claim each and every criticism of anything women do or any noticing or open misandry (as per laurence fox when the feminists dropped on him for noticing that woman's casual and dismissive view of male life re suicide) as misogyny and demand that the men should be fied/locked up/criminalised for speech and noticing? again he asks knowingly.
screw her, literally caught in the results of her bigoted ad insane world view because funnily enough you don't get to have a one percent carve out of your own logic boo hoo
What a sensible eloquent young lady
I couldn't believe she's just 20
Future mp
@@ollymeg Hopefully !
No chance,too intelligent and truthful.@@ollymeg
GB news should give the girl a job, she could be very good
Political re education , straight from chairman maos little red book, dear god ,what is happening
Exactly what you voted for.
Re- education ffs! In modern Britain - damn socialist ideology
Maoist - but then Queer-Theory Activists are.😖
It’s a thing in Canada now in the UK.
Just look at the countries that have a good friendship with the CCP. Uk ,Australia, and Canada all are pushing towards communism fast .
My employer tried to force me into re-education already in 2019 - for having asked a question about a certain ideology. I was also threatened with incarceration in a mental institution and accused of being a "terrorist" and "dangerously mentally ill". I refused to go to "re-education". I got immediately suspended and was never allowed back into my job. I am now unemployable. Major company present throughout the UK in the public transport industry.
Welcome to Stalin Starmers uk
What a courageous and articulate young woman. Wish her all the best.
Leeds uni using coercive persuasion tactics... Coercive behaviour is abuse.... Shame on you Leeds Uni
You should visit the student area near the university. The absolute state of the students is shocking. You can just see the level of indoctrination with all the coloured hair, facial piercings, and 'ally' badges.
Get your fees back. They are a fake uni. Gone against the very essence of what tertiary level is supposed to do …. be able to defend your position.
Calling shame, publicly speaking out? That's far too little too late. Those times are over.
You need to get off your collective assess and take to the streets demonstrating.
That's the LEAST you can do.
They were on the woke bandwagon when I was there in the early 2010s, there was a perpetual drive to get women into Engineering. They were the second student union to ban "Blurred Lines" too.
If their goals were mainly getting women into STEM (rather than hijacking social science / humanities depts with woke indoctrination) that would be 10000000x more noble and of more societal utility.
If someone takes action against you but refuses to tell you what crime you've committed, you found the criminal.
Incredible, brave woman. I'm so pleased that she has spoken out.
Correct, but isn't it crazy that you have to be brave to speak your mind?
@Steven-d6b7x It's even crazier than that, you have to be brave to speak the "truth".
The quote:- "Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act" has never been more relevant.
It’s unbelievable that the student has to be the teacher. She is extraordinary but this is wrong for a 20 year old to have to do what adults in the UK should be doing.
Why haven't you invoked the Leeds Uni anti-bullying policy? Sack the administrators.
Yet most people are blind to what is happening, the intellectual laziness and cowardice of the public is mind blowing.
Or maybe they don't have a problem with it?
Its not laziness...any public criticism and people get arrested or publicly shamed for their views.....any complaints are dealt with insults and claims of racism or transphobia.....are people not allowed opinions these days?
@@AT-bq1kgwhich is worst.
@@Dannyboy32145 That's why we allowed a Labour government into power 😂 because we are all terrified of saying something so we put a political party into power that promised to reverse the pro hate speech legislation that the Tories proposed 😂
@@Dannyboy32145 If everyone in the county was simply afraid to speak out why actively vote for or allow a Labour government a super majority? Surely if this was such a big issue for most people then Labour are the last people they would want in power
Parents any University that has policies to stifle or close down open debate ie free speech, do not allow your children to go to such Universities. You are wasting your money!
Which one doesn't these days. ?
@@judithmorganjudyteen The new one in Texus !
@@judithmorganjudyteen Oxford uni is worse. hundreds of years of culture and critical thinking right down the pan. Might as well send your kids to train as manicurists and bricklayers, they'll get more actual thinking done.
Universities are for adults who are free to make their own choices, stupid or otherwise…
Excluding people for not being inclusive? Riiiight. That makes no sense at all.
it’s inclusion only of you agree with their idea of inclusion.
It's called Doublespeak!
@@unitysprings3631 It makes total sense as inclusivity is about inclusion as opposed to perpetuating stigmatisation.
Doesn’t matter to them
This type of thing happens all the time. You know that right. We live in an Orwellian world where double-speak & double-think are the norm & have been for some considerable time at this point.
Thank goodness for the bravery in this girl. We need much more of this in society. Keep fighting girl!
Total support for Connie. And well done to GBNews for dragging these repulsive prejudices out into the open.
lol, she just wants her 1 percent carve out of an insane and bigoted view she agrees with 99 percent of because she's special. she wasn't supposed to be challenged by those rules, those speech rules are to stop men holding women to any standards/accountability or to stop Christians speaking freely or to stop people critiquing one of the worlds major philosophies in Islam. it wasn't supposed to apply to her when she transgressed on the logical conclusion of her own drivel fueled crap. boo hoo
prejudices, yeah, just for once you people got caught in your own net.
Yeah but “gender critical” is prejudice against men….its built entirely on the premise that western society is an oppressive patriarchy against women, and that gender was invented to oppress women into “roles” and to take away their equality. Make no mistake, this girl is insane as well. She’s just up against the other insane side to the coin she’s on. Which happens to be what most of us are against at the moment.
The truth will win. We the majority must not be silenced...
The majority are silent.
What an extremely intelligent, articulate, courageous, and sensible young person. There is hope!
She reminds of of why I wanted to go to university in the 1960's, and why I'd be ashamed to be there now...
Yes, I award her an A+ for understanding Sociobology!..... unlike Uni Woke Admin. who MUST be sacked. Vote Nigel Farage for mass Uni sackings!!!
I think you should probably read up on what “gender critical” means. She’s most definitely not sensible. The other adjectives are right, though.
They exist! I hadn't much hope for anyone under 20 but this is a candle in a cave for sure.
It absolutely astounds me how these activists equate a difference of opinion with them feeling “safe”. Particularly, since they are the bullies!!
Well done Connie for not being intimidated into not expressing your views.
Universities are supposed to be places where different viewpoints are debated, and politics and free thought is celebrated and encouraged, not sterile indoctrination "safe spaces" that they have become.
I thought they were places to learn more to get a better job or am I just a thicky !!!!!!
Full-on admiration for this brilliant and brave young woman. Big well done and thank you!
She’s so brave! Lots of love and solidarity from Australia!
Aussies are the best !
Well done miss Shaw, we need more brave, intelligent young people like you.
This is one person that university won't screw up and they've thrown her out. Just an observation.
So be inclusive but only if it’s including the right people with the right views, otherwise you’ll be excluded??. What a load of cow poo!
Well done Connie.
Do not apologize for having the emotional maturity to discuss a subject (especially a current and contentious subject) and hold it up to the light for consideration.
This is our right as individuals.
No one should be compelled to apologize for this.
Good luck, Connie. All the best to you.
it took me two minutes to find she was the chair of the feminist society when she was at school. good fro free speech are they, feminists? he asked knowingly. or do they claim each and every criticism of anything women do or any noticing or open misandry (as per laurence fox when the feminists dropped on him for noticing that woman's casual and dismissive view of male life re suicide) as misogyny and demand that the men should be fired/locked up/criminalised for speech and noticing? again he asks knowingly. imagine thinking that a feminist isn't shot through with dogma just because she's got an ounce of sanity re trans.
This woman has nothing to worry about. She is very well spoken and has a grounded and honest personality. Stand your ground!!!
Very bright an articulate young lady. Shame our universities are so tied down in woke dogma that bright minds like these are put down...
it took me two minutes to find she was the chair of the feminist society when she was at school. good fro free speech are they, feminists? he asked knowingly. or do they claim each and every criticism of anything women do or any noticing or open misandry (as per laurence fox when the feminists dropped on him for noticing that woman's casual and dismissive view of male life re suicide) as misogyny and demand that the men should be fired/locked up/criminalised for speech and noticing? again he asks knowingly. imagine thinking that a feminist isn't shot through with dogma just because she's got an ounce of sanity re trans.
screw her, literally caught in the results of her bigoted ad insane world view because funnily enough you don't get to have a one percent carve out of your own logic boo hoo
What an admirable woman, keep telling the truth the future is bright for you.
It is all getting rather kafkaesque ....dear God!!
Predators always seek new strategies and loopholes.
Connie has seen through the gaslighting and has a kind truthful heart I wish her all the best for her future career ❤
If this is the calibre of 20 year olds, I have genuine hope for the future. Gen Z and A are going to do great things. Go, Connie!
Still a feminist
This is clearly NOT the calibre "...of 20 year olds". That's mad to extrapolate what we see in one young woman to the whole group. 95% of young women are echo-chamber leftist.
Some. Keep in mind it's the same Gen that are 'offended' that she has an opinion and complaining about her to get her cancelled
The percentage of so called ”educated” women who buy into the woke stuff is appallingly high. As the saying goes: Most men are from Mars, women like her are from Venus, the rest are from Uranus …
she appears to be a needle in a rather diverse and rainbow coloured haystack
I honestly can't believe this lady is only 20 years old. The way she conducts and expresses herself makes her feel way older (in a good way). I've had a few 22-23 year-olds at my workplace that had already finished uni and in no way did they display this level of maturity (rather the contrary). I wish her all kinds of success in life
Thank you Connie Shaw.
Listening to this young articulate intelligent woman, critically thinking the ideology through gives me hope all is not lost.
Well done for speaking out - truth IS TRUTH.
There is nothing wrong with her she's smart and intelligent
Sounds to me like LSR has brought LSR into disrepute.
The trouble is that not enough people stand up against this garbage.
"Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it"
Pericles
Amen
This coming from the country that gave us Monty Python. 🤦♀️ Society today is one really bad MP skit.
Cut with immediate effect any funding to the University.
I am currently reading 1984 and the current climate doesn't feel too far from that book.
Read Orwell's animal farm as well between the two you get an awfully clear picture of the left
Read Kafka's "The Trial" next.
Isn't it telling people what's been taught for centuries about gender is now wrong being critical?
Er... that's different. Apparently. 😕 ???
Tires are turning. We're sick of this shit, people are waking up.
I salute this woman!
Yes, but what *_is_* a woman...??
Political Re Education is absurd.
She expressed some very interesting points made about the scope of attitudes towards gender ideology in society and the educational institutions that demand compliance and deny free speech. A brave stance in theses increasingly Orwellian times! Admirable!
The Blair/Brown years laid the foundations for the trouble that now rips the UK apart, and has put us back in the USSR.
Any university that suspends or expells a student who did not violate any previously agreed terms should immediately have to refund 100% of their tuition.
Plus their living expenses, rent etc.
The UK is sounding more like The Soviet Union each day.
No gender issues there though. Men are men and women are women and the rest have left. One thing that Mr Putin and many others agree on.
Even the Soviets treated women better than this.
Partially. Soviets will never have allowed illegal invasion and replacement by any group of people. My partner is a gypsy and they were not allowed to speak their language and they all tried to pass for white but of course still discriminated against.
All over west countries! When Russia is not soviet anymore... hence deep state want to destroy it.
That's their idea🇨🇳🇨🇳. Keep voting Reform 🏴🇬🇧🏴
Keep fighting the stupidity. It knows now that it is losing which is why it is so vindictive, IMO. Strange though, how when pushed it is incapable of defining its grievances, or can only define them via contradiction..
I support you young lady
She dose not need anything, she thinks just fine, completely logical and right.
she should have recorded all meetings she had
TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE! 🌹😎✊🏻✊🏻
Time to change uni.
The start of the beginning of the end 🙏😁
Intelligent, articulate and capable of critical thinking, if only our universities were full of people like her, questioning and standing up to the establishment. Bravo.
So, has anybody from Leeds University come forward to give their version of events or have the taken the usual course of action and hidden themselves away?
How dare they punish her for her opinions. This has got to be illegal
Brilliant young woman and show (as always)
We need more people to stand up. If people stood up then this injustice wouldn’t be happening.
I thought the BBC were supposed to be impartial.... they are taking quite some time to report on this, its been a few days now, surely they are going to let people know about this right?
@@nick1635 🤣🤣🤣 Don't hold your breath!
Connie has got a bright future ahead of her. She will be a first class independent journalist.
Stay with the truth male/ female
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👌🏻
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"Cancellation" is never detailed. It's always issued from a vague, unspecified "violation of terms of service".
Leeds should encourage debate. If it won't then it's just an indoctination camp.
@@paulwooton4390 I sat through my nephew's graduation ceremony. The University is FULL of this woke nonsense. At the end a students gives a speech on behalf of the students. In this, he made a big deal of how they had been taught to think logically, to have critical thinking skills, to be rational people. And he was able to say it with a straight face. Incredible...
Stand with her against this madness.
Too many young people have been indoctrinated in schools and it continues into further education. Parents need to be aware of this and encourage their children to question things and think for themselves but good on Connie for realising what’s going on and speaking out but we need more young people doing this.
she was chair of her schools feminist society
big on people questioning things and thinking for themselves are they, feminists? he asks knowingly
or do feminists push for any critique of their misandry to be a 'hate crime', again he asks knowingly
recent eg sanna marin,female pm of feminist finland strips all men in the country of autonomy and imprisons them if they want 'my body my choice', forces them in to the army, then lectures them about bodily autonomy and choice. then when held to a trillionth of the standard she holds 198 year old boys to, at the age of 37 as pm, she throws a hissy fit and scolds everyone about choice and autonomy 'everyone has the right to choose what to do with their body/life'. do feminists one-go mmmhang on sanny babes, or two attack anyone who notices what a contrived faked up bit of victimhood this was as 'misogynist oooohhh?
likewise ava something goes on piers morgan and demands that there be a kkk style justice ' believe preferred group over hated group and if wrong well who cares because it was only a worthless group member and it will cause them all to fear', she literally told Isabel oakeshot 'i like that men live in fear' so just straight up kkk style false accusations are a-ok because it cause the people i hate to live in fear, and then she was callous and dismissive about male life (plus la change for the feminists who thinks the half of society regularly mass disposed of is privileged, uhhh huh) and when laurence fox does a fairly simple straightforward 'Jews probably shouldn't date nazis' comparison, feminists come down on him and je gets fired. because we aren't allowed to notice reality, noticing her misandry is misogyny(maths on which never shown).
everything is misogyny even simply noticing female privileges, feminist misandry, supremacism and bigotry, sure sure sure. by that logic all these terfs are just outright trans bigots end of. stupid irrational system, but feminism relentlessly pursued and built it so it would be i guess.
so why exactly should a feminist be defended? her 'crime' is reality noticing, feminists have made it clear that they don't approve of noticing reality, questioning ideology or basic reason and logic. and the constant demands for the ku klux klan justice system cement them as people for whom evidence is just irrelevant, so what except when the evidence shows men aren't women? hmm right all upside, no downside. naaaah no thanks. welcome to the bottom of the pile ladies, you belong here after all its a hole you've been digging...
Doesn't matter what label you give it, this is wrong on so many levels and smacks of about every oppressive regime of the last 100 years; the 're-education' part is particularly chilling. Everyone also has the right to their opinion and to air it(or did until the non crime hate incident nonsense anyway) and the blocking of holding educational establishments to account over this kind of behaviour is wrong onmany levels. Everyone should also have the right to know what they are charged with, it's insane. Glad FSU is involved.
‘The Trial’ all over again! So many others being subjected to the same process. INSANE 😮
Yup, as someone who is also being persecuted for having the "wrong" opinion - it feels absolutely like "The Trial"!
I predict a stellar career for this fabulous young woman ❤❤
😂
What is the purpose of tyranny? The end game?
Total control over every aspect of your existence. Absolute power.
The New World Order of course. Total domination of all thought , speech and behaviour by a few extremely fascist dictators at the top of the pyramid. This is the Davos crowd who are doing this with the military industrial complex as their brothers in arms. Literally.
The zend and mission statement of the Queer-Theory Activists is the destruction of Western Civilisarion. Gender Identity iis tied to Critical Theory (Critical Race Theory, Critical Social Justice Theory), 'Decolonisation', anri-imperialism, etc.
Oligarchy with communist forms of social control
A very brave honest young woman .
what happened in Australia was terrible glad you spoke of it
Miss Shaw. I admire your stand.... keep it up
Good for you!
higher education should teach students how to form an opinion based on solid research & good evidence, and how to argue disagreements on a factual level! Instead, they require adherence to an ideology (that ignores all evidence to the contrary) and punish students who disagree for arguing their position. Such universities betray their very purpose.
As soon as She agrees with the Party that 2+2=5 she will be reinstated !
Corrrect!
Signed
O’Brian
She's brilliant! Quite articulate, concise, and openly responsive. Great job and more importantly, best of luck.
if they can't exactly say what your guilty of then they can't exactly charge you with anything....hope the Police read this one.
Never stop, never surrender, never back down and most importantly Connie, never apologise. I see a Georgia Miloni in the making here.
did she really have to not only be forced to re education but also buy a FREE SPEECH MEMBERSHIP
She should sue them for defamation.
From having the best universities to being sloppy waste. How did they manage to ruin the reputation of the universities so completely.
Have they been reading Orwell's 1984, sounds a lot like double speak.
Leeds "Uni" Coercive behaviour is abuse.
When people can’t provide a valid explanation, reason or justification for why they are doing what they are doing, then there’s no reason to listen to them. They have no grounds upon which to stand upon to talk down to you, when they are sinking in quick sand.
R.I.P. Free speach in Britain...
Proud of this brave young lady for speaking out and including the side that the establishment wants to suppress!
So Canada is now headed down this same path while America seems to be course correcting.
She was defending women, this isn't right.
Methinks the people running our universities are the ones that require Political Re-education. What is Political Re-ecucation anyway, is this the start of something that will lead to the winning politcal party in a general election to try and send opposing parties for Political Re-education. Think about it 🤔 some of these students want to be MP's too.
This young lady has the right mindset, I hope she goes far in her career, we need more level headed folk to speak out.
In other words you can not have an opinion that does not tow the woke party line
Absolutely insane, as usual...
What an articulate, intelligent, courageous woman. Well done!