Workplace cake sale to raise money for Mermaids

As well as the all-powerful LGBT committee, does your organisation have a women's committee? And, if not, why not? It clearly needs one!

The non-binary activist is an inappropriate speaker. If someone does not identify with womanhood, why are they involved in IWD? Why have they been lined up to tell women what feminism should encompass?

This sounds like a hostile workplace for women.

I think I'd make my own cakes and cards and sell them for the local women's refuge. Mermaids have bugger all to do with women it is a very odd choice of Pressure group charity for this particular day, almost a deliberate snub of women.

There are so many small, deserving, desperate-for-funds women's charities.

Whether there's any controversy or not about Mermaids (and we all know there is), it is not a WOMEN'S charity! Simple.

And as for the the LGBT group having to be consulted....I despair.

Good :)
Not sure why it's called that anyway. Surely GBT would be more accurate

"In terms of changing the charity, they said further conversations with the LGBTQ+ group are needed to gain more understanding..."
Please please challenge this! I expect the vast majority of this group will be men.
Actually that's an interesting question in its own right.

Bold fail

*Oh, there are clearly enough of you to start some kind of GC feminist group too!
**
Call it something generic or historic if you’d prefer to fly under the radar a bit but if the founders/officers hold a GC position you can create a group with that ethos.

That way next year, there will be a Women’s LIb group or Feminist network or a Female Equality Committee ready and expecting to be consulted.*

Excellent idea. Slogan should be 'Nothing about us without us!'

Oh, there are clearly enough of you to start some kind of GC feminist group too!

Call it something generic or historic if you’d prefer to fly under the radar a bit but if the founders/officers hold a GC position you can create a group with that ethos.

That way next year, there will be a Women’s LIb group or Feminist network or a Female Equality Committee ready and expecting to be consulted.

What was it Suzanne Moore has just said? Oh yes - "There are more of us than you think."

Sorry to derail but are there plans to put this on a T-shirt? I’d buy one!

In terms of changing the charity, they said further conversations with the LGBTQ+ group are needed to gain more understanding...

As per PP, I'm slightly confused as why the LGBTQ+ group needs to be consulted on International Women's Day

Well done on alll you emailing women trying to get clarity on this.

IWD seems to have been subsumed into LGBTQ+ plus plus.

Women have been lost. But women are standing back up.

Why does the LGBTQ+ group get to dictate what charity money is raised for on International WOMENS Day?

They are our new Overlords now - everything has to go through them, to ensure women aren't up to anything unsupervised...

I’m assuming you are private sector. If public, I’d be looking at the civil service code & what is said about political impartiality- this is a lobbying organisation.

In terms of changing the charity, they said further conversations with the LGBTQ+ group are needed to gain more understanding...

Are many of the LGBTQ+ group women?
Does this cross group decison making happen on other days?

I’m sure we can come up with some great suggestions for women’s causes that disproportionately affect the L and the female B.
And some charities relating to female biology (so inclusive of half the T)

Wouldn’t want them worry about sending the wrong message in Pride month! 🙄

In terms of changing the charity, they said further conversations with the LGBTQ+ group are needed to gain more understanding...

Why does the LGBTQ+ group get to dictate what charity money is raised for on International WOMENS Day?

Don't other charities,awareness days not get a look in anymore?

Yes I think asking for a whole month of raising money for women's charities during the six months of Pride is a fair exchange

It seems IWD has been hijacked by another agenda altogether.

It certainly has

How can anyone argue that this is not a movement for the erasure of women?

The non binary person giving a speech - let me guess, a male in women's clothes?

It's like someone at the top has thought "the trouble with IWD is that there's just not enough males!"

God, it makes me furious.

If they come back and say the LGBTQ+ group won’t budge, say you want fundraisers for women charities for the whole of Pride month in exchange?

That is genius.

Unless you have a load of scary older women in the office who are fed up with everything womanly needing to centre around lgbetc?

If they come back and say the LGBTQ+ group won’t budge, say you want fundraisers for women charities for the whole of Pride month in exchange?

Maybe include a list of 30 women’s charities, one for each day?

Ffs cucumber, just saw your update. On the plus side, maybe we will help encourage some of our colleagues to question the likes of mermaids and their ilk...
Lets keep our fingers crossed until we have a definitive answer 🤞🤞

In terms of changing the charity, they said further conversations with the LGBTQ+ group are needed to gain more understanding...

Ffs, how thick is this person? If it's for WOMEN's Day, consult WOMEN or just pick a WOMEN's charity!

Can’t you find a few Ls to speak to them?