Laura Favaro conducted surveys of female academics and found they suppress themselves regarding all things “sex/gender” and they’re unable to get ahead of the “trans” DARVO. That being deny, attack, reverse victim and oppressor, which is tactics of a sociopath narcissist. Meanwhile no data on trans widows, except here. We are now at 60 completing the survey, very soon the profiles of the last 3 will be up on Trans Widow Ute Heggen channel (YouTube).
Meanwhile, a woman who saw the writing on the wall:
~~~~~~~~~~~From Eliza Mondegreen, Gender Hacked substack~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Laura Favaro on her attempt to research the gender wars in academia—before being embroiled herself:
‘What struck me early on was the climate of fear,’ she says. ‘One professor described her working life as a feminist academic as a “continuum of hell”. More junior colleagues kept their “mouths shut” fearing their careers would not survive the “horrible backlash”.
‘Even those female academics who were in some agreement with the gender identity side described feeling depressed, alienated, and, most of all, “terrified”. They avoided the subject at all costs because they had seen how this had led to so many women being ostracised, harassed and threatened with violence.
‘Some were comparing the current situation at universities to “authoritarian regimes” and the “Thought Police”, and these well-respected scholars were stopping their gender-related research and teaching.’
She recalls one ‘exceptionally bright scholar’ crying as she told Laura: ‘I don’t want to lose my job. I don’t want to put my kids at risk. And I don’t have extreme views.’
Even some academics who supported gender ideology thanked Laura for the opportunity to have an ‘honest conversation’. These academics admitted to silencing gender critical colleagues and students.
Concerned by what she was finding, Laura decided to survey more than 600 academics — with funding from The British Academy — about the gender wars, working conditions and censorship at universities. Additionally, the Equality and Human Rights Commission asked her to produce a report of her findings.
‘But the more evidence I presented to my line managers at City, the more it seemed they didn’t want to interact with me,’ she recalls.
Was there ever a point she felt she should back off from such a controversial topic to save her own career? She shakes her head.
‘I felt that I was recording something important, producing a record of a shameful historical moment, so I had to keep going,’ she says.
In September 2022 she published her findings in the Times Higher Education supplement under the headline: ‘Researchers wounded in academia’s gender wars.’
Inevitably there was a savage response on social media.
‘I was expecting a backlash — to be called transphobic,’ she says. ‘But the fact that the critics went for my integrity as a researcher was really painful. They called me “unethical”.
‘They accused me — again, falsely — of naming one of the anonymised participants, and lied about some of my methods.
‘One particularly hurtful tweet was saying that if I could do this to academics, imagine what I’d do to children.’
At this point Laura’s voice cracks and she breaks down in tears.
‘I was at home when this was happening all over Twitter [now called X] and I was horrified.
‘I hoped that my line managers at City would protect me. Instead, all I got was a brief email from them saying: “This has obviously become an institutionally sensitive issue and I’m sure we’ll be in touch over the next few days.”
‘That was it. I felt isolated and frightened. One work colleague who identifies as a transgender woman described my article on Twitter as “an attack on trans people”, and condemned City for allowing the research to take place. Others were demanding the retraction of my article, and of my research findings.
‘There were tweets calling for the end of my career. City investigated a formal complaint and found no evidence of ethical wrongdoing on my part.’
UteHeggen~GrassWidow 