Gender Ideology harming women and children in India

I am horror struck by this. For all the progress we have made on this issue here in the UK, the scale of the battle facing us worldwide, as women, just keeps getting bigger.

As if misogyny weren’t deeply rooted enough in India. I suppose that explains why it’s being so readily accepted there. Male power begets more male power.

They never replied. But that's probably because they trumpeted their feminist principles so I reminded them of the girls raped in Haiti.

I spent a couple of years working in India with women and disabled kids.
They really don't need this shit.

In 2020 the Times of India reports 88 rapes of women and girls a day - and we know that's a massive under reporting.

In 2021 it's reported that crimes against women rose by 63%.

Yet Stonewall with an eye on the possible ££££ for them, are expanding their reach there - pushing for the removal of women's safe spaces.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-sees-88-rape-cases-a-day-but-conviction-rate-below-30/articleshow/78526440.cms

How disgusting

aweegc - I did read somewhere that many orgs in such countries find themselves having to take on gender identity policies as part of securing their funding. It's awful that such a male supremacist ideology is embedding itself in areas where women's rights are already struggling. Definitely colonialism in a new guise.

It's not only India. I've heard of an NGO working for lgbT (stress on capital letter) inclusion in Lebanon. This is disgusting in a country going through an economic collapse, where people are struggling to eat. My friend who works at it and is from the region said it was younger staff who were involved in that.

I'd be interested to know how many NGOs have started included the "T" in their funding proposals over the past few years.

It's all rather ironic really when the group of people are pushing this are the same group of people saying we're supposed to tear down remnants of colonialism. Why? To make way for their new version?

Thanks for posting this. I read it a couple of nights ago and was incredibly upset and angry. Wanted to start a thread here but needed time to calm down a bit.

It really is a vile ideology and it's disgusting to see Stonewall being gender missionaries and pushing this crap on countries in the global south like India. They know their days are numbered in places like UK etc where people and the media are more informed now and can organise a pushback.

There's so much corruption and lack of democratic accountability in India. So many areas still don't have proper provision of toilets and single-sex spaces for women, nevermind adequate political representation. Male sexual and domestic violence is rife. From birth to death, women are second class citizens.
It's heartbreaking how many women take their lives because they can't cope anymore and there's no support - www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-59634393
Lots of Indian women can only dream of the sort of financial and social independence and opportunities afforded to women in countries like the UK.

And now the gender zealots are spreading their male supremacist religion in places where women already have little or no protection and are severely marginalised. Misogynistic men and predators are going to love the extra opportunities to harass and intimidate women, now with the 'progressive white people' stamp of approval. It's so upsetting and enraging.