...to think that if Comic Relief are going to do a "Woman Wednesday" blog about "inspirational female figures", it should have an inspirational female figure in it?

[ArcheryAnnie]

Comic Relief are doing a new weekly blog, about inspirational women.

"Women Wednesday’s is our new weekly column for Gender Justice month here at Comic Relief, where we will be giving the spotlight to one inspirational female figure per week. We focus on women who have created change and spearheaded movements for other women, and stood up against discrimination against gender and sexuality."

Fantastic, right? They've got links to all kinds of amazing women, working in very challenging conditions across the world, who are helping to create a better world for everyone, not just themselves. What a brilliant blog theme! What brilliant, inspirational woman are we all going to learn about today, I wonder?

Well. Here's who they picked as their "inspirational female figure": www.comicrelief.com/news/women-wednesdays-heres-why-lili-elbe-our-inspirational-figure-week

Women deserve better, Comic Relief. You've really screwed up on this one.

honkersbonkers - I have standing orders to several charities and worked for one for years. Yeah, scum of the earth, me.
Others have said that they will consciously donate to charities who address issues close to their hearts. Rotten scumbags, giving money to charity 😡

PS, Gerda was a much better artist than her spouse, she really deserves a proper biography of her own.

But that's not likely to happen. I wonder why. Still it's great that her spouse is so inspirational.

I am so angry about this I don't even know how to put it into words. I even joined Twitter just so I could see the comments. I am shocked at how quickly we get called bigots and transphobe just for pointing out this isn't an inpirational woman.

They may have well just slapped on a photo of Laika and been done with it. At least she went into outer space.

How is that person inspirational for WOMEN? They might be an inspiration for men who want to break out of the bounds of masculinity, but what did this person do for actual women ?

Apart from the awfulness of trying to harbour a woman’s uterus - I assume the woman whose uterus he acquired had died.

Btw, Is it just me, or a man ‘s aspiration for a womb transplant a really awful thing ? It’s not an organ that is essential for life or well-being, such as a heart or a liver. It feels like a kind of Frankenstein’s monster desire.

I've complained as well. So sick of this shit!

I gather the surgeon is known for sterilizing women without their consent so presumably the women didn't agree to give up her uterus. And he was 49. At which age most women have little use for a uterus.

Here’s some background to the Dr that carried out Lili’s surgery - an actual Nazi. Nice to see that Comic Relief did full background checks on the appropriateness of their selection

zagria.blogspot.com/2011/12/kurt-warnekros-1882-1949-gynecologist.html#.W-8c8xqnyf1

Oh yeah I know, I won't donate. That'll show them. Punish the charities that benefit from comic relief, yeahhhhh!

Honkers, here's why I probably won't be donating to Comit Relief next year:

1. Comic Relief didn't do their research and inadvertently got involved in a hot political topic. They have been stupid. I can't trust them with my money because they are stupid.
2. Comic Relief knew exactly what they were doing but decided to risk donations by being wind up merchants. I do not trust risky, wind up merchants to spend my donation sensibly.
3. Comic Relief truly believe that a man becoming a transwoman is really more inspirational than all the intelligent women in history and alive today who have made extremely valuable contributions to science, the arts and human rights. Comic Relief are misogynists. I refuse to give my money to misogynists because I am a woman who loves women.

I am not punishing the charities who benefit from Comic Relief grants. I can donate to them directly.

Well I've complained too. I'm not a campaigner by nature, but I'm getting really fed up with the way transrights are going.
I can, however, be really awkward if I've a mind to so Im looking forward to a healthy email debate with them now.

I have just logged into my amazon account and donated to my local WA thanks to @CaveMum

My money has gone direct to a good cause this year.

What’s the best email address to complain to?

DS1's birthday is around the same time as Comic Relief so every 2 years his party has a bit of a CR theme with Red Noses, pins and deely boppers in the party bags, t-shirts as prizes and CR cupcakes and cookies. It has been something I've enjoyed and supported since The Young Ones and Cliff.

I am well fucked off that I don't feel able to support them any longer. And that this year they have pandered to those who have promised to put them on their list of charities that they will support in future rather than actual, long standing donors.

This thread has finally made me get off my arse and set up a direct debit to women's aid (www.womensaid.org.uk/). So that's good.

I've got the same crappy cut and paste reply as everyone else.

Will reply to them now, telling them, amongst other things, that I now identify as a woman who will not only never give them a penny ever again, but will make sure I tell as many people as possible why I do not give them my money.

I've not donated to CIN for years, I looked into where trhe money went and there was more than one organisation I did not want to support.

I directly support charities I believe in.

Lots of local charities have tiny budgets but work within your community.

I don't have much money but I do support Abortion Support Network when I can.

I also grow my hair for the Little Princess Trust, this year will probably be the last time I can donate as my hair is getting quite grey.

I also donate to my local refuge.

A few Xmases ago there was a thread on MN, 'what's the best Xmas present you ever had'. One poster said, 'a dive soap and shampoo' she went on to tell her story of bing in a refuge over Xmas.

I now send a parcel of make up / toioletries from superdrug each year as presents for anyone in my local refuge.

Out of curiosity, are there examples of trans men who are winning awards / competing / being held up as male role models / inspirational males for men to be be inspired by?

Out of curiosity, are there examples of trans men who are winning awards / competing / being held up as male role models / inspirational males for men to be be inspired by?

I asked this earlier in the thread. Apparently men don’t have any awards... I pointed out GQ do a man of the year award every year.

I was told to google but that didn’t really get me anywhere.

You won’t see them competing at professional level as the physiological disadvantage they are at is so massive, despite the ‘Rachel’ McKinnon’s of the world claiming there’s no difference between men and women and they don’t have a massive advantage over actual women.

Hmmmyeah i googled but cant find any examples of transmen winning 'man of the year' etc could someone please point us to them as i WOULD be genuinely inspired by that person achieving the impossible

Serena was GQs 'wom'man on the year for some reason.

That was the decision of the designer, Fekko. Apparently, he is a friend of Williams and uses scare quotes in his work so there is nothing to read into it.

I recently learned about Balian Buschbaum, a professional pole vaulter (as a woman).

Since transitioning, BB has become a pole vaulting coach. Injecting 'T' is classed as doping, so BB could no longer compete.

Someone somewhere (not this thread I think) said that critical tweets are being deleted.

Mayve been on the CIN About CIN and mermaids/allsorts tweets (sleep deprived this morning).

what about nominating female identifying comedienne Mrs Brown ( of missus browns boys fame?)

Has anyone got screenshots of the account 'shhhhh' on Twitter that was tweeting alternative women they could have chosen instead of men?

Incidentally comic relief's twitter feed is mysteriously lacking all the critical tweets that were there the other day