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Trans woman named as UK champion for Women's Rights by the UN....

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HootyMcBooby · 03/01/2024 10:55

Outrage as trans woman picked by UN to be 'UK champion' for women's rights (msn.com)

"I will use this role to further advocate for the progress, safety, inclusion and empowerment of all women and girls, of all communities and identities.
"I will continue to draw attention to the systemic and social impact of misogyny, transphobia and gender-based inequality within the UK — in order to help provide data and insight that contributes to forming tangible methods of tracking and countering it." (Munroe Bergdorf)

Really?
How's that going to work then, when you don't like women talking about their own fucking bodies and call it crap like "gatekeeping" and "biological essentialism" etc.

Also quoted as saying anyone can be a woman.

How are you going to fight for their rights if you can't IDENTIFY what they are and anyone can be one?

Actually, they should just identify their way out of oppression and inequality, shouldn't they?
After all, it's that easy apparently.

MSN

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/outrage-as-trans-woman-picked-by-un-to-be-uk-champion-for-women-s-rights/ar-AA1moq0K?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=bef31ae70b8c40bab3e66876f7c3edd7&ei=12

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UtopiaPlanitia · 09/01/2024 16:59

Article by Scottish journalist Madeline Kearns in The National Review about Bergdorf’s new UN Women role:

Women’s Rights in Name Only
'…Not only is Munroe Bergdorf going to be unhelpful in advancing these causes, but he actively undermines them. Indeed, he is a champion of one of the greatest affronts to women’s rights in the Western world: the denial of sex-based rights and protections.'

https://archive.is/ICThj

IcakethereforeIam · 08/01/2024 11:06

You're welcome 😊

Just wish I could remember to use the correct number of 't's. I need to drop one.

Jeanhatchet · 08/01/2024 10:51

@IcakethereforeIam thanks so much for sharing the piece. It's very much appreciated.

StephanieSuperpowers · 07/01/2024 12:53

That was good. Even cathartic.

WarriorN · 07/01/2024 12:16

This is a work of art that deserves its own thread

Brilliant Burchill on Bergdorf. www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4979568-brilliant-burchill-on-bergdorf

Zodfa · 07/01/2024 07:41

I want to believe some trans people are nice. But even the ones who get chosen by respectable public institutions to represent them tend to be complete twats.

murasaki · 06/01/2024 23:16

Ah, bergdorf has done a drive by. Hi, you charlatan.

SinnerBoy · 06/01/2024 23:05

I couldn't be arsed to read any of the thread, but you're all wrong, so shut up and suck it up.

underneaththeash · 06/01/2024 23:01

Ridiculous and sad.

JanesLittleGirl · 06/01/2024 22:11

PP82 · 06/01/2024 15:20

Couldn't be bothered to read all 5 pages, so sorry if others have pointed this out, but you have the right not to be fired for holding 'gender critical beliefs.' You don't have the right to spout them on any platform you choose. Mumsnet can delete comments on any basis they like, and organisations and venues are free to no platform whomever they like. I've had comments deleted that were perfectly legal. I didn't whine about it. Free speech doesn't mean you can spout off anywhere you like.

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I love a drive-by scolding.

Girlontherailreplacementbusservice · 06/01/2024 20:24

Hepwo · 06/01/2024 19:36

Spout off! How funny.

It might be funnier if more of these 'women' did have their 'spout' off.

WickedSerious · 06/01/2024 20:04

IcakethereforeIam · 06/01/2024 12:46

The DM article is like a little potted history

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12932435/munroe-bergdorf-unchampion-british-women-hate-women.html

He was a cute kid.

Interesting choice of photographs.

Hepwo · 06/01/2024 19:36

Spout off! How funny.

Waitwhat23 · 06/01/2024 15:23

PP82 · 06/01/2024 15:20

Couldn't be bothered to read all 5 pages, so sorry if others have pointed this out, but you have the right not to be fired for holding 'gender critical beliefs.' You don't have the right to spout them on any platform you choose. Mumsnet can delete comments on any basis they like, and organisations and venues are free to no platform whomever they like. I've had comments deleted that were perfectly legal. I didn't whine about it. Free speech doesn't mean you can spout off anywhere you like.

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venues are free to no platform whomever they like.

Websites might be able to but venues certainly can't.

news.sky.com/story/the-stand-apologises-to-joanna-cherry-over-u-turn-on-cancelled-edinburgh-fringe-event-12879264

PP82 · 06/01/2024 15:20

HootyMcBooby · 03/01/2024 14:15

By the way Mumsnet, we are PERMITTED BY LAW to state a biological truth, namely, that trans women are not women. They are men.
And that it a legally protected statement upheld in court.

Couldn't be bothered to read all 5 pages, so sorry if others have pointed this out, but you have the right not to be fired for holding 'gender critical beliefs.' You don't have the right to spout them on any platform you choose. Mumsnet can delete comments on any basis they like, and organisations and venues are free to no platform whomever they like. I've had comments deleted that were perfectly legal. I didn't whine about it. Free speech doesn't mean you can spout off anywhere you like.

TrainedByCats · 06/01/2024 11:21

Onjali would be a great choice

NCembarassed · 05/01/2024 23:53

@PatienceTried A wonderful choice would have been someone like Onjali Rauf. An incredible woman, an award winning children's author, who relentlessly campaigns for women and girls.

Onjali Q Rauf - Author

Onjali Q. Raúf is an award winning children's author and activist. Her best selling debut, The Boy at the Back of the Class, was critically acclaimed and won the 2019 Blue Peter Book Award and Waterstones Children's Book Prize.

https://onjaliqrauf.com/

Femaleismysex · 05/01/2024 23:27

The best women are men.
or so it goes in queer woke circles!
fuc*ing fake!

ArcaneWireless · 05/01/2024 23:15

I should think I’d qualify. You know. Being hairy and barren and that.

Two out of three ain’t bad eh?

Meat Loaf Singer GIF by NPO Radio 2
ArcaneWireless · 05/01/2024 23:10

Champion for the rights of women?

Nah.

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Ginandjoy · 05/01/2024 22:39

Saw a horrible pic of this individual on Twitter posing naked with their fake boobs and penis out. What a horror show. Why should a pervert be allowed to represent women? 🥺

AmaryllisNightAndDay · 05/01/2024 22:37

DrBlackbird · 05/01/2024 22:07

Is it notable that UN Women UK advertises safe spaces, not single sex spaces? But even if this a way around the EQ2010, who gets to say that the space is ‘safe’? Those running it? Or those needing it?

https://www.unwomenuk.org/safe-spaces-now/

Edited

Helen Joyce has made some very clear statements about what a safe public toilet for women looks like and why it's not a row of unisex cubicles. Perhaps UN Women UK will need educating about that too.

DrBlackbird · 05/01/2024 22:07

Is it notable that UN Women UK advertises safe spaces, not single sex spaces? But even if this a way around the EQ2010, who gets to say that the space is ‘safe’? Those running it? Or those needing it?

https://www.unwomenuk.org/safe-spaces-now/

Safe Spaces Now - UN Women UK

We are launching a three-year change programme to create safe spaces across the UK. Our mission is for every woman and girl to have an equal right to Safety, Choice, and A Voice.

https://www.unwomenuk.org/safe-spaces-now/