Inclusion of ‘those who identify as women and non-binary’ in suffrage commemoration

[percypig]

I’m a teacher and received an email today inviting me to get my students involved in an Arts initiative to commemorate the centenary of suffrage.

I like the idea behind it (I think it might be the same group which organised the drama thing commemorating WW1, when actors dressed as soldiers popped up everywhere?) but am miffed that once again an event which is all about women, seems to be adjusting the definition of women to include those who are biologically men.

Anyone else heard of this event?

Yes a friend shared it on FB a while ago. Looked great until I saw that bit.

When it came to the vote, women who identified as male wouldn't have qualified. Men who identified as female would have qualified dependent on financial circumstances. End of story.

I had the same thought NotTerfNorCis, and am now wondering whether it’s worth emailing the organisers back to voice my concerns.

please do.

Well at least they are calling them people who identify as women, differentiating them from actual women’s

The organisers should have specified that their event included trans men and those assigned female at birth if they wanted to sound woke without undermining the whole point of the exercise.

Changeypants I thought about that too, but actually what they’ve done is a weird halfway house which just feels like they’ve altered the event to include biological males.

They could have organised the event for everyone, because after all, lots of men are feminists and may want to celebrate/commemorate female suffrage. But they didn’t - it was clearly planned to be an event for women, and I get the symbolism in that...so it’s annoying that that symbolism has been altered to include men.