You are the CEO of a UK woman's charity.
Where would be the single best place place to discuss endo and engage with women with endo and how it affects their life?
If you are saying you want to punch the screen when the word mumsnet comes up, are you really going to put that to one side and engage with women on MN?
If you aren't prepared to do that - and deal with women who think you are a man - then really are you the best appointment for a charity with a focus on a women's gynaecological health? This matters because this is about reach and engagement for a charity thats all about improving awareness.
There are also concerns over your temper and how you talk about violence in this manner so flippantly. It is NOT ok to say stuff like this.
Keep in mind the interview talked about how all the service users are supportive of the appointment. Yet this is a person who says things like this and is known to have a history of being actively involved in the harassment, intimidation and vilification of women who speak out. If they are a service user who is also on MN and are GC do you really think they are going to go "hmmmm y'know actually I have a real issue with this'? Keeping in mind the charity might well have your personal contact details such as address and phone number.
One of the criticism here is about conflicts of interest and transactivism working to silence women who say and do things they don't like (see the reaction to Emma Barnett saying its a gynaecological issue - and the reply that its not and this classification is the reason the condition isn't taken seriously - and the bullshit of what about the menz...). And one of the arguments that women are countering with regards to TRA is the use of harassment and intimidation which is also leading to unrecordable self exclusion.
Its ultimately incredibly frustrating that a man gets the gig to talk to women's hour about why its ok to be CEO despite their work to silence and intimidate women, yet the women who have been deplatformed by this same silencing and intimidation still don't get the gig.
And we end up talking about identity and the only information we get from awareness campaigners for endo in this interview is that men get it too, its not a gynaecological issue and Emma Barnett isn't giving enough airtime to awareness of endo and is 'pushing the point' on there being a conflict of interest in a TRA trying to remove words like woman and is quite literally being dismissive of the point that you need a womb for endo!
These people are grifters who don't have a fucking clue what they are talking about and are actively spreading misleading information or dangerously inaccurate inform in the name of spreading awareness. They are more concerned about inclusivity that saying its absoluetely appalling that gynaecological issues are a cinderalla issue -precisely because 'woman', 'sex', 'lack of automy', 'control by men' etc etc.
Honest to god, as glorious as the take down was why on earth are we not getting gritty interviews with others with 'controversial' opinions such as 'transwomen are men' - in the name of being inclusive of all views? I do wonder how these women would do under a grilling like that from Barnett (or someone else). My suspicion is the risk of the interviewer not the host looking somewhat stupid...