Action Aid - no such thing as a biological female

I just don’t understand how anyone could wander into this Waterloo these days without understanding that it will cause a drop in donations and bad press. There will be a nasty whiff around them now.

How shortsighted can you get.

I think the Baroness already knows but I'm not sure she does about the Pankhurst connection.

Do we have any legal bods on here? I write a few letters on these sorts of matters (although nothing as outrageous as this) but I'm never sure if I use the right words.

At least with Ratners most of the victims of the stupidity were either wealthy shareholders or at the very least people who could get another job and move on. Here the victims of any potential fall out are very vulnerable women and girls.

email enquiries take up to 48 hours for a response.....really hope they put out a statement before then. Am hoping this is just a hoax

This is worse than the Tesco/ Amazon/ Starbucks Mermaids tie ups. So much worse - this could destroy a brilliant charity that does really important work.

Emergency trustee zoom tonight lads?

It's one thing to argue that TW are women (because you can say that, under the EA and gender identity, any qualifying individual is a legal fiction of the opposing sex), but it's an entirely different beast to say there is no such thing as a biological female.

I'm not on twitter, has anyone let the Baroness know about this one?

Like so many other charities and organisations, they have been "Stonewalled". Stonewall has been misrepresenting the law and peddling their rewritten version of the Equality Act, under the guise of "diversity training".

Single-sex protections and rights are written very clearly into UK law.

Stonewall needs to be investigated, held to account, and their illegal "guidelines" removed from every single institution in the UK.

You can kind of expect this kind of crap from some woke, virtue signalling company, but it's disgusting from a charity many people donate to at least in part as they claim to protect girls and women. If this is true, won't be getting another penny from me, will find another who does similar work but actually cares about women.

(That's just been posted on a WhatsApp group I'm on from a very reputable source...)

The Interim co-Chair of Action Aid UK is one Helen Pankhurst, granddaughter of Sylvia, great-granddaughter of Emmeline.

Registered in UK (England Scotland Wales) so must be bound by UK Law

We’ve lost the plot.

But they are refuting a legal definition on which a substantial amount of legislation rests, so they then cannot, by their own declaration, conform to that legislation. They are declaring that they will not conform to UK law.

I suppose the first step would be to ensure they are actually bound to UK law. If they are, then I suppose a second step would be to write to their legal team asking for clarification. And then take it from there.

I'm quite flabbergasted at the lack of oversight here. It's like posting a sticker on your forehead saying "Sue us".

This is massively disappointing if true. I've supported them precisely because of the work they do with women and girls in the 3rd world. I've asked for clarification before I stop my standing order.

I think this is a clever way of solving the problem of period poverty ! Obviously if there are no biological female bodies then periods cannot exists !
Viola ! Problem solved !
I can't imagine why no one thought of it before!

When a charity addressing such extreme need world wide has enough time and manpower to existentially deconstruct womanhood and turn half the human race into a thought experiment.... you start to feel they have far too many people sitting in offices who have far too little real work to do, and to wonder where the bloody hell people's money is going.

This is hugely frustrating

Really looking forward to Movember coming out with a statement that there's no such thing as 'biological males'. I'm sure that would go down a treat.

Wait a minute, this is an unlawful statement.

What action to take, suggestions please

I did have a look at the plan international website

I didn’t spot anything...but could obviously have missed something

I hope this isn't real.

If it is then AAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is getting bloody ridiculous now. What the fuck to they mean when they say there is no such thing as biological sex? Utter tossers.

@Datun thank you

@GrumpyMiddleAgedWoman, of course! Although if you do, I'd change the last sentence to read

Am I correct in thinking that you have evidence that self identifying girls with penises are at equal risk of FGM?

Because I originally said biological male children, who of course don't exist now