Invisible Women - WITS

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thereplycamefromanchorage · 26/07/2020 10:05

So WITS, who appear to be a Women in Stem organisation in Ireland are saying their choice of Invisible Women for their bookclub is 'problematic' because of its lack of inclusion of transwomen and non binary people.

twitter.com/WITSIreland/status/1285980180784336896?s=20

They describe the irony of a book called Invisible Women sidelining transwomen - whilst being completely unaware of the irony that the premise of the whole book is how biological women's needs and safety has been sidelined and ignored in favour of men.

Twitter replies are heartening though.

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CommunistLegoBloc · 26/07/2020 10:25

They can't even let us call out the safety issues that research focused on the male body creates for us. Everything MUST centre men.

I am so tired.

SarahTancredi · 26/07/2020 10:18

There just aren't the words....

WeeBisom · 26/07/2020 10:16

I love it when these organisations inadvertently reveal that they don’t really believe trans women are women after all. If they really thought trans women were women then by definition trans women would be included in a book called “invisible women”. Trans women are supposed to be a subset of women, no? But it appears they read the word “women” and utterly fail to associate that with trans women. Oops.

Also, that weasel word “gender” pops up. No , the book isn’t about gender. It’s about sex. More specifically it’s about living in a world designed for just one sex, which puts the other at risk. If anything they should be celebrating that trans women are at a lesser risk of dying in car crashes because cars are designed with their body in mind!

This is just another piece of evidence that its considered transphobic for women just to focus on themselves.

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