Meet the new CEO of Endometriosis South Coast

It's always 'bullying' when you don't agree with these nincompoops.

Inevitable:

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Ben Bradshaw's tweet is absolutely shocking. He has got a weird single focus on T issues.

I find it bizarre how there is so little anyone can do re elected representatives and their decisions to not represent huge swathes if their constituents. He is just representing himself/his personal pet projects in the vast majority of his tweets.

He also behaved appallingly toward Rosie Duffels and Miriam Cates, he was part of the LRM weirdness and yet at no point is he held to account for his behaviour.

As someone who has worked in the public sector for many years, it was impressed upon us the need to be seen to be neutral, to behave professionally, to manage conflict etc. He just gets to behave really badly while we pay him to do so. Baffling.

Thanks for the reporting all. I'll have to wait for the iplayer version.
Ben Bradshaw's tweet has just lost any chance of a vote from me for Labour.

Interesting, Steph runs the baby2k shops in the Portsmouth and Southampton area. Car seat fitting specialist and prams and the like. Think they have about 7 show rooms. Looks like Steph ran the company with a sibling and sister in law.

Interesting only in that, their area of expertise is running retail stores. They probably got involved in women stuff through selling these products. They are probably very well known in the area to mothers. Steph may have good reach to be ceo of a charity in this area, I guess. Shame they are a TRA and have to make everything they do about being trans and being bigoted and offensive towards women.

Daily Mail article has been updated.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12748391/transgender-endometriosis-charity-ceo-steph-richards-hits-critics.html

That actually makes me feel sick.

Unfortunately, my employer disagrees - many, many conversations later I now have reasonable adjustments but it was such a fight. There’s a perception that endo is just ‘bad periods’ which is maddening - I bled through a maternity pad inside a pair incontinence pants, worn inside a pair of period pants and ruined an office chair in a HR meeting where we were (ironically) discussing how they need me to give notice if I’m going to be off sick (whole other story!). That was sure say I think they actually started listening to me.

What I would have loved is support from an endo charity, who could have come in an educated HR for me and helped me advocate for myself.

I don’t know this woman, neither do any of you I imagine, but I personally would rather give her time in the role to demonstrate her value before writing her off. It’s a tiny local charity, and if her appointment to the role starts a conversation about endo I’m all for it.

This is an excerpt from a blog by a trans activist, advising other trans activists on how to infiltrate women's organisations and disrupt their work.

Give it a read.

Resisting TERF’s and Transforming Their Organizations

A solid first step is to create organizations that are inclusive to all that are redundant with whatever function the TERF’s run. Sometimes it’s enough to simply beat the TERF’s at their own game. People like less discrimination, not more. Our trend as a society is toward greater understanding of one another. For this to happen, you have to provide a viable alternative to whatever function the TERF’s are currently offering so people can choose to avoid them.

For example, in Vancouver, you have several great rape crisis centers, such as the WAVAW, that serve all women. That stands in contrast to centers who abuse the notion of “women only spaces” to ban women from aid. All of these centers are universally superior in safety, size, and quality to centers that are not inclusive.

In Austin, we have Central Texas Femdoms (CTFD), a kink group for dominant females that is trans inclusive. They formed due to the transphobic comments of the founder of another pro-Domme organization. As a result, the TERF run group is nowhere to be found, as CTFD is the one with access to local play spaces and clubs.

A famous historical example is <a class="break-all" href="https://archive.is/o/JSaVT/www.transadvocate.com/how-terf-violence-inspired-camp-trans_n_14413.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Camp Trans. This was the alternate music festival setup across from MichFest, a music festival that was sick with TERF influence. While it sadly ended in 2012, its legacy lives on. It served thousands of women of all kinds and provided a safe harbor for community to thrive. (More about MichFest later.)

Leadership Reform

You make a group that does everything the TERF group does, but without the unnecessary hate. Yet the TERF group finds a way to persist. Now what?
A gradual strategy that can succeed is infiltration and replacement. Entryism is a century old non-violent tactic that works in any group that uses voting to determine leadership. Gather a group of like-minded allies, join the group, and then vote one another into key positions. Attract more via outreach and over time the group will be geared toward promoting social justice and human rights.

(continues)

With TERF groups, many will likely try to ban trans women from membership. This can be worked around. Cis women allies can easily enter a given organization. If they work as a collective, it’s a matter of figuring out the number needed to achieve a simple majority (or whatever number is needed to overrule attempts to stop the bloc). For example, if a collective has about 25 members, then a group as small as 30 could wrest control from the bigots.

Then, when it comes time to select leaders, remove the old bigoted guard and install rational leadership. Done correctly, this is a wonderful bloodless democratic coup. It’s enabled since TERF’s are a tiny — if loud — minority of all women. Finding women willing to help replace their hate with love and inclusiveness is therefore not an impossible task.

This tactic is especially sound when trying to take over a group that has resources and performs functions that are important to the broader community, but happen to be biased against women. For example, discriminatory rape crisis centers on one hand perform an important function for the segment of women they do serve, even as they impose misogynist exclusionary definitions of who they’ll treat. Maintaining continuity for the delivery of this kind of service is important — no one wins if they’re shut down or disappear. A gradual internal take over simply allows the organization to stop being a hate group while still caring for women in need.

Purse Strings

Let’s say the group has taken steps to make entryism difficult or maybe their size makes that approach too difficult. Now external pressure becomes the main method, as this can yield positive results. The easiest target: the group’s money. Financial pressure is a proven way to cause a group to reform or shut them down so one of the before mentioned parallel groups can take their place.
There are several ways to hurt a hate group’s purse strings: political lobbying, boycotts, picketing, and lawsuits.