Action Aid - no such thing as a biological female

I read that as them admitting they hadn't thought about how to reconcile their agreed policy with the work they actually do, not that they hadn't agreed a policy. Just not agreed the message.

Clearly the people responding to the supporters emails had been given very clear instructions and doubled down in their second response, albeit they didn't repeat the biology bullshit.

I think it's about a disconnect between what they see plays well with certain sections of the Western Woke and what life is like on the ground for women in poverty. I think they just thought they would get some woke cookies and plaudits, they weren't prepared for a backlash and empty platitudes is all we now get.

It is policy set at the highest level - Maya went through all the internal documents in her blog post.

And yet in their statement yesterday, they seem to contradict that by saying that they don't yet have a policy:

We take the topic of inclusion very seriously; however, trustees have not yet had the opportunity to discuss a trans inclusion policy in relation to the organisation’s charitable mission working with women and girls in the world’s poorest countries.

www.actionaid.org.uk/latest-news/actionaid-uk-trustees-statement-on-trans-inclusion

So who was involved in writing the trans inclusion policy that Maya quoted? How long has that been in force? Why weren't the trustees consulted?

It demonstrates an absolute lack of judgement and common sense.

What this mass hysteria needs is a good cold bucket of legal water.

even if they backtrack, they can’t be trusted.

Exactly.

Thank you. I’ve cancelled a 25 year old direct debit.

In which case - even if they backtrack, they can’t be trusted.

I wonder honestly how long it will be before developing world people get forced to sit through first world white organisation lectures about gender ideology and the non existence of biology before being allowed to get the services/resources those organisations provide

I'm sure that is already happening.

The Zapatistas have had to sit through so many lectures on different topics from "enlightened Europeans, North Americans and even people from Mexico City"

"The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats."
Aldous Huxley

It’s the 14 year old social media intern - it has to be! The visual says women and girls but the copy can’t bring itself to use the words. They just can’t help themselves can they?

This appeared on my FB timeline this morning. Note 'people' who have periods. However, clicking on the link brings up a page on AA's website that talks exclusively about women and girls. Left hand/right hand?

The UK has a long history over the past few centuries of sending over privileged and crassly insensitive and superior people to the developing world to lecture them on their backward ideas and to drag them into the proper faiths

Yep, this. We aren't the only country guilty of it, but it needs to stop.

I wonder when the trustees will get around to having their meeting where they discuss whether women exist or not.

They are playing weird ideological games

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The rolling back of women’s right. Wholesale

That’s what this is

It’s insane just insane

MN used to get cross about the Christmas shoeboxes lecturing at kids about religion and trying to convert them before giving them Christmas presents.

I wonder honestly how long it will be before developing world people get forced to sit through first world white organisation lectures about gender ideology and the non existence of biology before being allowed to get the services/resources those organisations provide.

The UK has a long history over the past few centuries of sending over privileged and crassly insensitive and superior people to the developing world to lecture them on their backward ideas and to drag them into the proper faiths. Plus ca change.

It's being said more and more plainly, to be 'pro trans' you have to be emphatically, wholly anti female.

Even mentioning women, at all, never mind caring about their rights, is anti trans 'hatred', a 'good' person hates and oppresses females. It's that insane.

'Trans rights' means the elimination of female rights. That's truly what it means. The more this is owned in full public sight, the better.

It's interesting that this is a very specific charity dealing with extreme sex discrimination in other countries.

They are unlikely to be able to get away with the wishy-washy categorisation that eg Tampax manufacturers in this country can.

The women they deal with are quite clearly oppressed on the basis of their biology.

They are never going to be able to square the circle.

Because if they include transwomen and transgirls in order to adhere to the ideology, they have to exclude transmen and transboys.

That they are unlikely to come across trans anyone, is now irrelevant, as they have rashly tied themselves to the rules.

They either commit to the ideology and exclude biological women because of it, or they include biological women in flat denial of gender ideology.

It's so stupid.

And the worst of it is I bet the cognitive dissonance and clear conflict of rights won't be the thing that grabs their attention. It will just be word salady damage limitation all the way.

Suddenly we don't quite look like hysterical liars do we.

With all these people and organisations so desperate to not associate themselves with women they have literally jumped to the extreme but highly predictable end result which is complete denial of basic facts. Its almost funny. I mean I dislike donald trump but I'm.not gonna tweet grass is purple just becuase he said it was green and i dont want to be seen agreeing with him.

Considering the constant denial theres any conflict with womens rights they arent doing a very good job of backing up their claims if they are having to deny reality in all forms to try and prove it.

Yes, what exactly about 'believing' that sex exists is anti-trans?

Even posters on here who believe that GC feminists are 'anti-trans' say that it's not transphobic to say that people can't change sex - so I genuinely don't get it.

What the absolute fuck at the 'Anti-trans campaigners' label in that Telegraph article. The personal politics of the author should be reserved for opinion pieces.

@RedToothbrush - well done on such a detailed piece of research - I've spotted a few people discussing it on Twitter (although some getting confused and not seeing behind the 70% going to charitable activities).

It will be interesting to see how the role of charities in public life develops over time - I had thought that one of the (largely unspoken) ideologies behind austerity was that it intended to remodel the role of the State and push a lot of what had previously been assumed to be State responsibilities onto the Third Sector. 12 years on, with the UK now in the grip of a pandemic, almost certain imminent Depression and with Brexit swiftly approaching it is fascinating (and frightening) to contemplate a new ideology in Downing Street which is at best ambivalent towards the role of the voluntary sector.