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This is what happens when you include `"non-binary" at a womens conference

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KnittedCardi · 05/10/2023 15:07

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12595177/women-tech-conference-overrun-nonbinary-men.html

Basically hordes of men claiming to be non-binary pushed aside women at a tech conference, specifically set up to help recruit women as under-represented in tech.

Fury as women in tech conference is overrun with 'nonbinary' men

Furious female jobseekers have slammed the Grace Hoper Celebration of Women in Computing conference after a number of men gatecrashed the event, seemingly by identifying as 'nonbinary.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12595177/women-tech-conference-overrun-nonbinary-men.html

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LizzieSiddal · 05/10/2023 15:29

I wonder if next year, they’ll have to identify what kind of non binary people the conference is for? Hmm

LizzieSiddal · 05/10/2023 15:27

It’s almost as shocking as no one entering the “open” categories at the swimming!

Quite a week for it!

Datun · 05/10/2023 15:25

Furious attendees took to social media to slam the men for gatecrashing the women's event, however some pointed the finger at vague benchmarks for entering the summit as men could simply identify as 'nonbinary.'

Honestly. How the ever-loving fuck have we got this position? Where you can pretend to be neither male nor female.

How does anyone, any living being on the planet, ever accept it?

It truly is collective madness.

RealityFan · 05/10/2023 15:20

And yet the tech industry is overrepresented by young women who absolutely feel TWAW. So, these individuals should have no reason to gripe. But, I bet they do.

Men gonna men.

CaveMum · 05/10/2023 15:17

Came to see if there was a thread about this. I mean who on earth could have predicted that this would happen.....

GCAcademic · 05/10/2023 15:16

This was acknowledged by Cullen White, the Chief Impact Officer of AnitaB.org, which hosts the conference, as he took to the stage to address the audience at the end of the event, saying: 'Simply put, some of you lied about your gender identity when you registered.'

How does he know they lied? I mean, it’s not like gender identity is an objective, verifiable, material thing, is it? If you open up events to those with identities which are not defined by anything tangible, you have to accept that people are whatever they tell you they are.

AlisonDonut · 05/10/2023 15:14

Men, lying?

Surely not. If they say they are X then they are X. Thems the rules.

PoseasRadicalActuallyMisogynistic · 05/10/2023 15:08

This never happens