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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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viques · 03/01/2024 12:08

So , Bergdorf is pledging to fight misogyny eh?

I wonder how close to home that fight will start, any chance of it starting with Bergdorf apologising for the misogynistic comments and foul remarks about women, women’s bodies, women’s rights and women’s opinions that Bergdorf has splattered all over the internet like a bad attack of the runs over the last however many years?

I won’t hold my breath.

AmaryllisNightAndDay · 03/01/2024 12:08

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

Tea and coffee are pretty much the same anyway, they're all warm, brown and wet, they fulfill pretty much the same social purpose. Pour coffee in a teacup and who'd notice the difference? The UN have expanded the boundaries of tea drinking by finding someone who drinks coffee instead. They'll be the ideal person to represent tea drinker's interests.

DrBlackbird · 03/01/2024 12:02

Waitwhat23 · 03/01/2024 11:00

I can't see it as anything but trolling by the UN. A punishment to TERF island essentially.

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.

duc748 · 03/01/2024 11:59

Also, following a side-bar link from that MSN story,

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/cycling/sport-pendulum-swings-towards-tighter-measures-against-transgender-athletes/ar-AA1mnjJP?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=ed23bd6eeeca4064b040fe b2f1777bc6&ei=44

I suppose this is typical of 'mainstream media' reporting on the topic.

Are you, or have you ever been, an "anti-trans activist"? 😀

StephanieSuperpowers · 03/01/2024 11:58

Hilarious. Someone in the UN must have a sense of humour.

duc748 · 03/01/2024 11:35

As I said on MN recently, it's another day, another fucking insult.

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Waitwhat23 · 03/01/2024 11:00

I can't see it as anything but trolling by the UN. A punishment to TERF island essentially.

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