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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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SinnerBoy · 04/01/2024 03:04

AmaryllisNightAndDay · Yesterday 12:08

"Coffee drinker named as UN champion for UK tea drinkers".

That's very good!

JellySaurus · 03/01/2024 23:44

PatienceTried · 03/01/2024 23:11

I’ve been very disappointed with the WEP. Thought they’d fix some things, not make things worse. Right then. Let’s do some nominations for who would be a great UK ambassador for women. Or principles for how they should be chosen. I’d like to see women who understand the impact of domestic violence supported to be champions of women.

JK Rowling

PatienceTried · 03/01/2024 23:11

I’ve been very disappointed with the WEP. Thought they’d fix some things, not make things worse. Right then. Let’s do some nominations for who would be a great UK ambassador for women. Or principles for how they should be chosen. I’d like to see women who understand the impact of domestic violence supported to be champions of women.

FKAT · 03/01/2024 22:42

Un Women - much like Fawcett, Time's Up and Women's Equality Party are private networking groups for posh media gals larping as 'gender equality' charities.

catduckgoose · 03/01/2024 22:37

Have UN Women UK done anything at all useful? Their page seems to be just social media and fundraising and awards ceremonies.

RethinkingLife · 03/01/2024 22:28

AngeloMysterioso · 03/01/2024 18:11

There are 34 million women in the UK.

34 MILLION.

Not one of us deemed worthy of the role. Not one of us good enough.

No, the best candidate for the job was a in my opinion homophobic, lesbophobic, misogynistic man.

If you know several of the UN Women UK, this is no surprise. In fact, it's predictable.

Utahthecat · 03/01/2024 21:52

2Rebecca · 03/01/2024 21:45

That link says "page not found"

Not sure why the c&p didn’t work but the trustees are listed under the uk charity commission page, charity no 1162741

2Rebecca · 03/01/2024 21:45

That link says "page not found"

Utahthecat · 03/01/2024 21:44

It’s UN Women UK who have done the appointing afaik. They are a UK registered charity that fundraises and supports UN Women’s mandate with a UK board of trustees.

https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/-/charity-details/5053291/trustees

DenmarkStreet · 03/01/2024 21:38

Has the UN actually commented on the UK feedback yet?

Just find it so baffling that there seem to be no accountability at all?

duc748 · 03/01/2024 21:20

Have any UK politicians been invited to comment, has anyone seen?

SidewaysOtter · 03/01/2024 20:49

See, I wonder if there’s secretly some TERFing going on at the UN. Appoint a transwoman (ie a man) as Champion for Women and wait for the media storm to highlight the issue of men yet again shoving themselves into women’s spaces and roles.

Portakalkedi · 03/01/2024 20:39

FFS!! What the hell is the UN playing at? I am disgusted and grossly insulted to have a man appointed to this role. ANY one of the 34 million women in this country would be better suited. What a fucking insult.

2Rebecca · 03/01/2024 20:37

"Special UK woman"

2Rebecca · 03/01/2024 20:37

I think it's a shame both the UN and WHO have been overtaken by transactivists. Are they trying to make themselves irrelevant to GC women and men? They should be above party politics and lobby groups. Adopting someone born male as their special UK women just makes them look silly and captured.

Supersimkin2 · 03/01/2024 20:24

MB’s more than entitled to say she’s a stunning model, and refer to herself however she likes.

She’s being honest, or at least one hopes so.

Posters are being truthful. About a lot of issues, not just her maleness.

catduckgoose · 03/01/2024 19:33

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.

Is that really true? I thought Mumsnet had the right to delete whatever they want on their own forums.

cavalier · 03/01/2024 19:27

DrBlackbird · 03/01/2024 12:02

This was my thought. A big passive aggressive ‘Fuck you’ to gender critical feminists - but also to all women and girls - in the UK concerned about the safety, dignity, and privacy of women.

Bergdorf knows absolutely nothing about the fear of getting your period at school, being bullied or harassed by boys, or being forced to grow up wearing dress/skirts as uniform and being told you have to play netball, not football, let alone about the glass ceiling, misogyny in the workplace, the struggles as a working mother, lack of research into women’s health issues, etc etc etc

Who did the appointing? It’d be therapeutic to write them a letter.

A double tragedy in how Bergdorf has written about their family rejecting them as a gay effeminate boy. So with this appointment, the UN implicitly endorses transing the gay away on the one hand and says FY to biological women and girls on the other. I was always a huge supporter of the UN as an important institution for global security, but I’m beginning to wonder.

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Yep and the Labour Party could get in and make this situation far worse
they don’t know what a woman is .🤷🏻‍♀️

women only spaces will be not safe anymore … this is what’s putting me off voting for tbem in the next election .. I’m incensed about their stance on this . I don’t care if they are going to give us untold wealth … safe spaces for born biological women will be a thing of the past ..

StephanieSuperpowers · 03/01/2024 19:23

It's like making Jodi Marsh or Gemma Collins a UN spokesperson.

They would be better, having essential characteristics at least.

TWETMIRF · 03/01/2024 19:07

Joseph McCarthy to become the UN champion for communists, Putin for LGB...

Riapia · 03/01/2024 18:49

The UN obviously decided that the woman needed for the position had to be a (trans)woman with balls.

whenindoubtgotothelibrary · 03/01/2024 18:38

FFS. There really is no end to male privilege.

Cosmosforbreakfast · 03/01/2024 18:34

The UN is a disgrace. How can men represent women? Why are they and so many other organisations trying so hard to just obliterate us?

Every time we take one step forward in the fight for our rights and identities a gang of idiots come up with a slap in the face like this and put us 10 steps back.

RoyalCorgi · 03/01/2024 18:32

It's so insulting. It's like making Enoch Powell the representative for black people.

FKAT · 03/01/2024 18:30

Aside from anything else, MB is basically a zero talent Z-lister who goes to premieres in not much clothing, gets very minor endorsement deals from low budget brands and relies on occasional panel guest spots for profile. They have no achievements, skills or other notable characteristics that would make them of interest or prominence. It's like making Jodi Marsh or Gemma Collins a UN spokesperson.

That's male privilege for you.

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