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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Film about sexual harassment in workplaces in India is pulled from a screening in New York as it is 'transphobic'

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jadefinch · 04/03/2020 10:16

In fact - it's even worse than that, it was pulled because the filmmaker, Vaishnavi Sundar, had once tweeted that 'women's sex-based oppression is real'.

'Many moons ago I got into a Twitterspat about pre-op trans women in women’s shelters, prisons, bathrooms and women’s sports. And someone had brought the tweets in question to the organisers’ attention. As a result, the Polis Project thought it was only fair to shelve a screening of a film about a pressing topic that affects women across all social strata in society. All because the filmmaker believes biological sex is not a social construct, that women’s sex-based oppression is real, that housing people with male genitalia in spaces with victims of male sexual violence can be harrowing to women inmates, that mental illnesses like autogynephilia and other dysphorias can cause dangerous, irrevocable damage, and that gender theorists are erasing women, much like patriarchy does.

'I grew up in Avadi in the south of India. I have spent most of my life working with marginalised women. But I was simply not the right flavour of woke for the postmodern, queer-theory espousing desis of Manhattan.'

www.spiked-online.com/2020/03/04/i-was-cancelled-for-my-tweets-on-transgenderism/

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Socrates11 · 08/04/2020 20:19

Funny, there only seems to be one spoilt child snarking away on this thread and it sure isn't the filmmaker Vaishnavi Sundar.

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