The cheek of it, advising women to put themselves in danger to protect men.
NUS Women18 Conference was April 10-11th 2018
Highlights:
(extract)
"At this year’s Women’s conference, gendered power structures linked conversations with debate. Workshops centred on topics including Gendered Islamophobia, Reproductive Rights in Ireland and how to tackle TERFS (trans-exclusionary radical feminism). Yet it was the overwhelming positivity that emerged as the true champion of Women’s conference"
www.nusconnect.org.uk/articles/nuswomen18-love-conference-highlights
So this would be was prior to both the 'We Need to Talk about Sex' meeting at Bristol Jam Jar and the WPUK Oxford meeting?
Bristol:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3228346-Everyone-should-see-this-IMPORTANT
Oxford:
Michael Biggs Associate Professor in Sociology and Fellow of St Cross College writes:
users.ox.ac.uk/~sfos0060/FreeSpeechOxford.pdf
"A meeting was held on 25 April 2018 to discuss proposed changes to the law on gender recognition. The proposed legislation will eliminate sex-segregated spaces and activities, from women’s refuges to competitive sports. In a democracy, people have the right to meet to discuss—and indeed oppose—legislative changes. This should be incontrovertible. I am appalled that a small number of students at Oxford used extreme measures to stop this meeting from being held....
(concludes)
I have entered this debate not because I am a feminist but because freedom of speech is one of the highest values of a democratic society, and the basic foundation of university life.
Transgender activism poses a grave threat to freedom of speech. I think of the young MPhil student who had to disguise herself to attend this meeting because she feared the reaction of fellow students. This is the generation that we have educated."
Founder of Trans Oxford:
"l‘m not condemning the meeting of Womans Place_UK but the shameful campaign of bullying and intimidation organised by the students and transactivists outside of the QuakerHouse.
I’ve studied in Oxford, once a capital of freethought and freespeech, known for its fair debates with respect to the opinions of one’s opponents and refreshingly skilful and witty arguments challenging their views.
Bullying, although surfacing occasionally, was never welcome, especially, in the LGBT circles having too many victims of it knowing only too well how much it hurts. But last night the tables have turned - and the bullied became the bullies"
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3234661-Condemnation-of-the-shameful-campaign-of-bullying-intimidation-against-WPUK-meeting-by-founder-of-TransOxford