Well, if that's indicative of Ruth's open-minded scholarship, I'm failing to be disappointed.
RP's claim:
- Rachel Cashman, a campaigner against trans inclusion in schools, and supporter of Women’s Declaration International (WDI). Under their former name of Women’s Human Rights Campaign, WDI have openly called for the “elimination […] of the practice of transgenderism”.
What the, tbf, linked document says:
Gender is defined by UN agencies as sex stereotypes, i.e. ‘the roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a given society at a given time considers appropriate for men and women... These attributes, opportunities and relationships are socially constructed and are learned through socialization processes’ (Gender Equality Glossary, UN Women). The Convention calls for the ‘elimination of prejudices and customary and all other practices which are based on the idea of the inferiority or the superiority of either of the sexes or on stereotyped roles for men and women’ (Article 5). We consider that the practice of transgenderism clearly falls under this article because it is based on stereotyped roles for men and women.
To me, that's rather different.
Similarly, entertaining weasel wording here:
Riittakerttu Kaltiala, a Finnish clinician and opponent of affirmative care who contributed evidence for Florida’s ban on medical transition for young trans people. I have not found any evidence that Kaltiala opposed Finland’s policy of forced sterilisation as a condition of legal recognition for trans people, which was repealed only last year, but am willing to be corrected on this.
And this:
Legal threats are increasingly common from anti-trans campaigners, who argue that cancelling contracts or events constitutes an attack on their “gender critical” views as “protected beliefs”
Yes, true. That would be because people and events are deplatformed. And then the people and organisers point out that this is largely illegal. As for the last, RP might need to consult the Forstater judgment.
Light reading while waiting for the event to restart…