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Female students at one of Latin Americaâs top Universities say trans activists staged a coup of a single-sex washroom on their campus, and h
Female students at one of Latin Americaâs top Universities say trans activists staged a coup of a single-sex washroom on their campus, and have left some gender critical women and lesbians fearing for their lives.
On August 24, feminist students at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) were confronted by trans activists as they painted a lesbian pride symbol on a wall near the Samuel Ramos Library. Speaking to Reduxx, a witness who prefers to remain anonymous said that the activists began hurling verbal abuse at the women who were painting the lesbian labrys.
âThey called them TERFs, colonial fascists, and transphobes,â the source says, noting that shortly after, additional activists from the Queer groups on campus joined in to harass the female students. The women desperately tried to appease the crowd by talking with those who were outraged.
âThe women tried to engage in a dialogue, but found that the trans activists only wanted them to paint a symbol for lesbianism they agreed with.â
Shortly after, as a result of the lesbian symbol that had been painted, the trans students reportedly declared that they âdid not feel safeâ on the campus and went to administrators to demand a gender-neutral washroom be established in that area.Â
While administrators agreed to create one, the students did not wait for it to be designated. Less than 24 hours later, the activists took over the largest female restroom, which was on the second floor of the Faculty of Philosophy.
As part of their symbolic coup, the activists vandalized the walls outside of the washroom with anti-feminist and pro-sex trade graffiti.
âLess abolitionism, more whoring,â and âless TERFs, more sexâ were among the slogans painted outside of the washroom. The âfemaleâ bathroom designation was also erased and replaced with âgender neutral.âÂ
The source within the school says that the washroom that had been seized had once been considered one of the safest for women on the campus. Sexual assaults at UNAM are so common that the University recently had to install emergency buttons inside of the cubicles of womenâs washrooms.Â
As a result of lack of safe alternatives, as well as a reluctance to give into the demands of the trans activists, female students have continued to use the washroom, but now report lengthy wait-times and queues as male students have also taken to using the âgender neutralâ facility due to its size and convenience.
In response to the bathroom putsch, some feminist students on campus attempted to mark the washroom with their own graffiti.Â
Photos from inside the washroom taken last week show some feminist slogans have been written on the mirrors and walls. One reads: âif you want a unisex washroom, take it from the men! Donât violate womenâs spaces,â while another asks the activists to respect the rights of female minority students.
But other photos snapped inside show violent threats have now emerged, directed at the women. One, which was menacingly placed near an assault crisis button, reads: ârape and death for TERFs.â
Feminist students reportedly tried to make the University aware of the threatening graffiti, and documented its location for administrators to have it cleaned up, but the University claimed it âcouldnât findâ the violent slogans despite it being marked by the women.
The source within UNAM reported to Reduxx that administration has been ordering the removal of the feminist graffiti, but allowed those made by trans activists to remain up, including the death and rape threats.Â
In a statement issued on August 26, the University appeared to express support for the trans activists who had taken over the female washroom while condemning those expressing âdiscriminationâ towards them.
âThe technical council ⌠agreed to categorically condemn any expression of hate, violence, or discrimination towards gender-diverse students,â the statement read. âThis is no place for those who undermine the human rights of people who make up our community.â
Apparently emboldened by the Universityâs lack of action, trans activists have been targeting lesbian and feminist students in an effort to intimidate them. Gender critical women on the campus who have tried to organize formal protests against the seizure of the washroom have been faced with harassment.
âThey have begun a witch hunt against lesbian feminists who belong to student organizations,â the source at the University told Reduxx. She continued that female students known to be opposed to trans activism are being particularly targeted.
âThey follow [us] to the bathrooms, hoping to find [us] red-handed painting graffiti,â the anonymous source says. âThey want to silence us, it is a witch hunt.â
Commenting on the incident, Womenâs Declaration International Mexico representative Laura Lecuona expressed outrage at what has happened on the UNAM campus.
âUNAM, and in particular the Faculty of Philosophy, has been a breeding ground for transgender policies for years,â Lecuona tells Reduxx. âIn recent months, the violence of different anti-women groups has increased. They have impunity, with the active and passive complicity of [University] authorities.â
Lecuona says the University has been actively imposing gender ideology on students, and that there has been multiple incidents of trans activists on the campus forcing the administrationâs hand under threat of unrest. Lecuona explains that earlier this year, trans activists on the campus demanded that a video explaining the difference between sex and gender be deleted from the Universityâs systems.
âIt seems that the authorities are terrified,â Lecuona says. âThey make it very clear who they want to protect. Time and again, [UNAM] has shown that their campuses and faculties are not safe spaces for women.â
Lecuona alludes to the statement issued by the University, and asserts that while administration is buckling to the demands of the trans activists, feminists and lesbians on the UNAM campus have been showing tremendous resolve in the face institutional condemnation.
âUnder the passive gaze of those who should be protecting our freedom⌠our bodies are attacked and our words are attacked. If the authorities are afraid, feminists will not be.â
Trans activism is closely related to pro-sex trade activism in Mexico. In July, a transgender politician aggressively disrupted a government conference aimed at tackling human trafficking after becoming offended at the implications abolitionist policies would have on trans âsex workers.â
Maria Clemente, a trans-identified male politician elected to Mexicoâs Chamber of Deputies last year, called the suggestion that the sex trade be abolished for the protection of women and children âhate speech.â To a critic, Clemente said: âI am a woman, and I am a whore! Â Itâs my job and and how my family eats! I love it!â
Sex-based violence against women in Mexico is considered to be among the highest in the world, with the countryâs femicide rate continuing to rise even as the general homicide rate falls. 85% of human trafficking victims in the country are female, with women and girls overrepresented in every form of the crime, including organ trafficking, forced prostitution, and labor exploitation.
By Nuria MuĂĂąa Garcia Nuria is a news contributor and the head of Spanish translation for Reduxx. Nuria is a passionate advocate for the rights of women and girls, and seeks to connect feminists across borders. A Spanish native, Nuria currently lives in Switzerland.
"Queer" can't be defined. It has no clear definition. It's a catch-all term. This is why it's so destructive. When lesbians, gay men, and bisexual people in homosexual relationships start to be called "queer" (in the media or however), it obfuscates our sexual orientations.
If queer can be applied to anyoneâbe they heterosexual, bisexual, or homosexualâ suddenly when the term is applied to us then the sexual orientations of gay and lesbian people and our relationships are obscured.
The Q used to stand for "questioning", and the erasure of this category is harmful. People who are questioning their sexual orientations deserve a place in the gay, bisexual, and lesbian community that is both recognized yet considered it's own thing.
like when people try to learn your hobbies or try to play the same sports that you play in an effort to get closer to you, people who try to love you the way you love people, people who will go to places you want to visit just for your sake, people remembering, putting in an effort. just. trying
'Invisible Women' by Caroline Criado Perez is an incredible book that everyone should read, first published 2019, about the way society is built around men in literally every aspect of life
'Pimp State' by Kat Banyard, first published 2016, is an amazing takedown of the six main myths that surround the sex trade
'Firebrand Feminism' by Breanne Fahs, first published 2018, interviews and looks into the lives of prominent Radical feminists Ti-Grace Atkinson, Kathie Sarachild, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dana Densmore, as well as discussing the basics and historic origins of radical feminism as a grass roots movement
'Spinning and Weaving : Radical Feminism for the 21st century' edited by Elizabeth Miller, first published 2021, is an anthology of various essays on topics such as porn, intersectional feminism, lesbian feminism, transgender politics and more (some are better than others, it's 600+ pages so I'm making my way through)
'Trans' by Helen Joyce, published 2021 - not so much radical feminism - moreso gender critical, as Joyce herself claims to be 'fiscally conservative' - and a few takes I don't quiet agree with but overall an excellent comprehensive discussion of the current and historical political climate of trans issues
Why Women Are Blamed For Everything by Dr Jessica Taylor, about the psychology of victim blaming. Grim but straightforward reading. Itâs been years since I read it, but also Natasha Walterâs Living Dolls, about the hypersexualisation of young women and return of misogyny as âempowermentâ. Also Testosterone Rex by Cordelia Fine, about the science of sex differences.
âThe Womenâs History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Yearsâ by Rosalind Miles (2021)
âPolicing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhoodâ by Michelle Goodwin (2020)
âThe End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Societyâ by Dr. Debra W. Soh (2020)
âWitches, Witch Hunting and Womenâ by Silvia Federici (2018)
âButterfly Politicsâ by Catharine Mackinnon (2017)
âPornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexualityâ by Gail Dines (2010)
âThe Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Tradeâ (2008), âBeauty and Misogynyâ (2005), âGender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderismâ (2014), âUnpacking Queer Politicsâ (2003) by Sheila Jefferys
"The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception" by Debora Spar (2006) is a little older but it's a fascinating critique of surrogacy and the fertility industry as a whole
Came out last Fall. Amazing book because it covers current topics like consent, the rise of sexual kink, prostitution and transgenderism to name a few. I thought I won't read anything new after I read her book "Beauty and misogyny" (which is a must-read) but it's worth the buy. Clear, concise, critical and informative.
Hey check alphafemale-atrocities â her blogâs following is open and between that (where you can see she follows people like âholocaustdeniergkâ) itâs clear sheâs alt right, racist, antisemitic. Also see her post history, her mutuals like spaghetti-explosion. She follows you and is constantly trying to orbit radblr despite being antifeminist when it suits and only using us for criticism of the trans movement
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