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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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shambolese · 03/01/2024 16:08

Trans model shouldn’t represent women, activists tell UN

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/trans-model-shouldnt-represent-british-women-un-told-nsr0j02wc

The comments on this article are all very Jo March (where is she these days?).

EasternStandard · 03/01/2024 16:07

HootyMcBooby · 03/01/2024 14:44

I've also seen Bergdorf on some chat shows spouting the most misogynistic hateful drivel. They are not a very intelligent person despite having a "sympathy doctorate" from some university or other for "services to gender bollocks".

That’s why we need sex class boundaries to ensure we don’t have to put up with this kind of hatred and aggression in our own spaces

As for the UN wtf

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 03/01/2024 16:01

...or at least the level of ruckus they are likely to raise if 'misgendered'.

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 03/01/2024 16:00

User1775 · 03/01/2024 14:47

Bergdof is male, why was that deleted? What is the threshold? I am allowed to say Karen White is a man, I have said this many times. And my thread https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4966716-4966716-woman-or-male-pervert was not deleted. Where is the line?

Perhaps the threshold is to do with the potential litigiousness of the person in question...

LondonLass91 · 03/01/2024 15:57

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.

Thank you.

LondonLass91 · 03/01/2024 15:56

HelenFisksBrownSuit · 03/01/2024 14:24

I see my comment naming Bergdorf as male was deleted.

How many times can I do this before I am banned? And then is MN liable for curtailment of my rights in law?

Really? That is ridiculous?!

Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 03/01/2024 15:51

Hi Babe

Trans woman named as UK champion for Women's Rights by the UN....
Supersimkin2 · 03/01/2024 15:42

Munroe‘s expertise lies in male homosexuality and racism surely?

The memoir majors on being a rejected boy and the search for self-realisation through a personal visual
transition. It’s supposed to be very, very good.

It’s not about women’s issues or women’s challenges. Or misogyny.

https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/01/transitional-by-munroe-bergdorf-review-trauma-and-resilience

Transitional by Munroe Bergdorf review – trauma and resilience | Autobiography and memoir | The Guardian

The model and trans activist writes movingly on prejudice, navigating controversy and personal growth

https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/01/transitional-by-munroe-bergdorf-review-trauma-and-resilience

MargotBamborough · 03/01/2024 15:25

The UN is going to woke itself into irrelevance.

Hepwo · 03/01/2024 15:08

The photo on the article is a fine bit of trolling. The reader is confronted with the awful pair of silicone beachballs this man is championing women's rights with. I suppose they are going to attract the attention of men. It that the UNs cunning plan?

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HootyMcBooby · 03/01/2024 14:44

I've also seen Bergdorf on some chat shows spouting the most misogynistic hateful drivel. They are not a very intelligent person despite having a "sympathy doctorate" from some university or other for "services to gender bollocks".

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EasternStandard · 03/01/2024 14:42

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What hatred is quoted here

Unbelievable

Lotrehin · 03/01/2024 14:38

This person is a bloke. How can he represent women?

ValerieDoonican · 03/01/2024 14:31

I stand with you Helen - not least because I adore your username.

But fgs Bergdorf is not only a bloke, he's a really blokey one too (in the worst way)

Sisterpita · 03/01/2024 14:30

What was the selection process, advert, essential criteria etc, that meant no woman was good enough to get the role?

HelenFisksBrownSuit · 03/01/2024 14:24

I see my comment naming Bergdorf as male was deleted.

How many times can I do this before I am banned? And then is MN liable for curtailment of my rights in law?

Froodwithatowel · 03/01/2024 14:17

Maya Forstater. The right to state one's own perception that sex is a fixed fact. It cannot be any ruder to state a truth that someone may have consciously chosen to put aside than it is to require another person to put aside their own truth and state a lie they do not believe in, and which they believe is offensive and harmful.

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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.

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Froodwithatowel · 03/01/2024 14:13

Unwomen unwomening.

Waitwhat23 · 03/01/2024 12:26

It also becomes ludicrous and a clear sign of why no debate was so essential to the embedding of gender ideology. Compelled speech or be deleted/cancelled/attacked. Chant the mantras which you know to be false, or else.

TrainedByCats · 03/01/2024 12:21

Interesting though, the more they do this the more determined I am to spend my spare money funding legal cases to fight this shit

JellySaurus · 03/01/2024 12:17

Yes, that was a quick deletion. For something which I would contend was a statement of fact.

TW are not women. TWAM.

Waitwhat23 · 03/01/2024 12:15

Ah, I see the misogynistic monitors are out in force today.

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