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A woman is not an idea, a feeling or a costume. Women are real people. Women exist. Women matter. (Side blog)

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If you need to understand the issue or need help explaining this to other people - this is it.

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“They just want to pee in peace”

Re: gender identity

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https://twitter.com/drrachelhewitt/status/1323616208944549890

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tumblr kid: I am gender fluid

me: I too, own many outfits

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Suzanne Moore leaves Guardian months after staff send letter of revolt over 'transphobic content'

A Guardian columnist whose work prompted a letter from more than 300 members of staff protesting against allegedly “transphobic content” earlier this year has left the paper.

Suzanne Moore, who won the Orwell Foundation’s Journalism Prize in 2019 for her writing for the Guardian, announced her resignation on Monday evening.

She tweeted: “I have left The Guardian. I will very much miss SOME of the people there. For now that’s all I can say.”

After an outpouring of support Moore later added: “It was entirely my choice to go. I will tell you all about it one day . For now thank you for these lovely messages. I feel like I am at my own funeral or something.

“Anyway I will keep writing of course! The efforts to shut me up seem not to have been very well thought through.”

In March, 338 Guardian employees across editorial, tech and commercial teams wrote to editor Kath Viner after the publication of Moore’s article “Women must have the right to organise. We will not be silenced” in which she wrote about gender being a biological classification “not a feeling”.

Moore also revealed that she and her children had received death and rape threats and been forced to get police involved after “being deemed transphobic by an invisible committee on social media” – something that happened once again after the publication of this column.

pressgazette.co.uk

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Why I had to leave The Guardian - UnHerd

Well if you were bullied by 338 colleagues, what would you do?

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Suzanne Moore leaves Guardian months after staff send letter of revolt over 'transphobic content'

A Guardian columnist whose work prompted a letter from more than 300 members of staff protesting against allegedly “transphobic content” earlier this year has left the paper.

Suzanne Moore, who won the Orwell Foundation’s Journalism Prize in 2019 for her writing for the Guardian, announced her resignation on Monday evening.

She tweeted: “I have left The Guardian. I will very much miss SOME of the people there. For now that’s all I can say.”

After an outpouring of support Moore later added: “It was entirely my choice to go. I will tell you all about it one day . For now thank you for these lovely messages. I feel like I am at my own funeral or something.

“Anyway I will keep writing of course! The efforts to shut me up seem not to have been very well thought through.”

In March, 338 Guardian employees across editorial, tech and commercial teams wrote to editor Kath Viner after the publication of Moore’s article “Women must have the right to organise. We will not be silenced” in which she wrote about gender being a biological classification “not a feeling”.

Moore also revealed that she and her children had received death and rape threats and been forced to get police involved after “being deemed transphobic by an invisible committee on social media” – something that happened once again after the publication of this column.

pressgazette.co.uk

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There used to be a word for us…

As JK Rowling famously remarked there used to be a word for female people.

Redefining “women” to be inclusive of males means the only words for female people are dehumanising and depoliticised. We cannot talk about or organise around an understanding of women’s lives when we can only talk about being female in terms of atomised body parts and functions. Nor can we talk clearly about men, the role that male sexual desires play in society, male violence and the relationship between women and men.

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“At a clinic in Anand in northern India, women give birth to Western children. White women’s eggs are inseminated with white men’s sperm, and the embryo is implanted in the wombs of Indian women. The children will show no traces of the women who bore them. They will neither bear her name nor get to know her. After giving birth to the children, the Indian women surrender them. They sign a contract and receive between 2,500 and 6,500 USD the moment they give up their responsibility for the child they just gave birth to. For the women, most of whom are poor and from nearby villages, the payment can be up to the equivalent of ten years’ salary. The buyers are typically American, European, Australian, Japanese, or wealthy Indians; they are childless heterosexual couples, homosexual men, and single men… With traditional surrogacy, the industry had been limited to the Western world. An Indian mother would have meant a child with Indian features. But suddenly, through the miracle of modern technology, it became possible for an Indian woman to give birth to a white child. Thus, Americans could pay two-thirds less than for surrogacy in the USA and still come home with their “own” child, even though it had spent nine months in an Indian woman’s body. Embryo transplantation also impacted on American courts’ judgments in the child custody cases. In one case from 1993, almost identical to “Baby M”—the mother had second thoughts after the birth and wanted to keep the child—the judgment was that she was not the child’s mother. She “was not exercising procreative choice, but was providing a service.” Because the egg wasn’t hers, the pregnancy wasn’t motherhood but a “service”; therefore, she had no rights to the child she gave birth to. This has now become standard practice in the USA, and even when the egg belongs to a third woman—a so-called egg donor—custody is granted to those who paid for the child.”

— Kajsa Ekis Ekman, Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self (via invertprivileges)

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About Maya Forstater losing her case.

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Tax expert Maya Forstater fired for saying trans women aren’t women

An internationally renowned researcher on tax avoidance is believed to be the first person in Britain to lose her job for saying that transgender women are not women. Maya Forstater, 45, was told...

An internationally renowned researcher on tax avoidance is believed to be the first person in Britain to lose her job for saying that transgender women are not women.

Maya Forstater, 45, was told by her managers that she had used “offensive and exclusionary” language.

She was accused of “fear-mongering” for tweeting her concerns about government proposals to allow people to legally self-identify as the opposite sex.

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This is an extremely important case. Read about it here: I lost my job for speaking out about women’s rights.

Link to the crowdfunding campaign to help with legal expenses as she takes this case to employment tribunal hoping to show that no one should be discriminated against for having gender critical views and talking about them.

Link to these tweets.

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UPDATE: Maya Forstater has LOST.  A UK employment tribunal judge ruled that the belief that biological sex is immutable, and that it is impossible to change one’s sex, is “incompatible with human dignity and fundamental rights of others”.

Her update.    

Professor of philosophy Kathleen Stock’s call uponother UK academic philosophers and other academics to publicly demonstrate their disciplinary values.

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Meet the Gay Activists Who've Had Enough of Britain's Ultra-Woke Homophobes - Quillette

Are gay people allowed to meet and organise in defense of their interests? A hard yes, you might have thought. But some apparently disagree. Witness the response to the London-based LGB Alliance, a newly created British group that asserts “the rights of lesbian, gay and bisexual people to define themselves as same-sex-attracted.” The group’s creation has sparked vitriol, not from the traditionalist Christians or social conservatives who might have opposed such groups in the 1980s or 1990s, but from the self-described progressive left. Readers who aren’t steeped in the most fashionable iteration of identity politics might now be scratching their heads. Unless you’re taking cues from Leviticus, what could possibly be wrong with saying it’s okay to be gay?

The answer is that, in acknowledging the reality of same-sex attraction, you are indirectly acknowledging the reality and importance of biological sex as a driver of attraction. You are also indirectly acknowledging that members of the opposite sex are not members of your dating pool—even if they tell you that they share your gender identity. Which means you have effectively pled guilty to that grave modern thoughtcrime, transphobia.

If you are not on Twitter, have not set foot on a college campus in the last few years, and don’t read woke web sites such as Teen Vogue, where this sort of thing is taken very seriously, you may imagine that I am engaged in some kind of Swiftian send-up of identity politics gone amok. After all, just about every single person reading this knows quite well how sexual attraction works. But I am quite serious: Activist groups that brand themselves as mainstream representatives of the LGBT community not only preach the idea that true attraction is based on gender, they also have sought to de-platform and mob anyone within their ranks who points out that this idea is completely divorced from the way the human brain actually works. In this make-believe world, to be gay—in the way gay people actually experience being gay—is to be a transphobe.

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Yaniv’s case is lost...now can we discuss the problems with gender identity ideology? | Spectator USA

Yaniv was well aware that the ideology of gender identity determines that one cannot question the declared sex of any individual

When you say “trans women are women”, this is what you are supporting. 

Over a year after a man then-named Jonathan Yaniv filed multiple complaints against British Columbia estheticians who declined to wax his balls, the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has ruled against the now-named ‘Jessica.’

Back in August 2018, Yaniv told Canadian media he had been discriminated against based on ‘gender identity.’ In reality, the female estheticians he approached simply didn’t feel comfortable touching a man’s genitals.

What has been revealed since, many times over, is that no one but Yaniv is, in these particular circumstances, guilty of harassment. Indeed, it is the women he attempted to extort money from, by abusing the tribunal system and human rights law, who have felt afraid, bullied, and preyed upon by a man claiming to be a woman. 

  Devyn Cousineau, member for the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal also specified that the women Yaniv targeted worked out of their homes, and that ‘most of them presented as racialized, with English not their first language.’

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Link to tweets.