Action Aid - no such thing as a biological female

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Has this been posted already? It's from an email they sent. I saw it on Twitter so I'll be back with links.

mobile.twitter.com/SVPhillimore/status/1283391189606162436

medium.com/@sarahvphillimore/denied-5643ebc184f6

That doesn't even make sense, even within the context of post-modernist reframed-post-colonial queer-questioning discourse.

Is it real??

The front page of their 'sponsor a child' webpage is mostly images of women and girls. But no, they are not biological females as they don't exist. I do hope they explain this to all the women and girls when they work with them.

Depressing.

I'm waiting for agricultural groups to think this is true. Watch out for the "milk" supply once that happens.

"Action Aid understands that there is no such thing as a 'biologically female body.'" Wait, this can't be right- I thought that NO ONE was saying that biological sex didn't exist? I thought this was a vicious transphobic lie made up by JK Rowling? Seriously though, this is infuriating.

I am getting more horrified at the erasing of women every day. So thankful that it is now starting to reach mainstream news, and that 'ordinary' people are realising what is going on.

Well that's the human race fucked then.

This is both stupid and horrifying. Why are these places being run by confirmed idiots? How can they be trusted with anything when they have zero grounding in reality?

As a tweet on that thread says, it's a declaration of doctrine, like the Nicene Creed in the Catholic mass. Religious fundamentalists passing gently out of reach of reality.

I think today I shall randomly stop believing there's any such thing as cows. And sugar. And Mondays. My fairies at the bottom of the garden say so.

FFS. Stupidity, gaslighting or cowardice of epic proportions.

It would be fascinating to send all these types to a Love Island type experience. Watching how they navigate their love lives when they can't be sure who is a suitable mate would be tragic educational.

Incidentally, if I no longer exist, do I get to stop paying taxes?

Must check with my MP. It seems unfair, now I'm a mere figment of my own imagination.

Hang on. Any one who identifies as a woman or girl is a woman or girl?

So anyone at any age can identify to be a girl?

I can’t see this on their website. There is a lot about how poverty impacts the lives of women and girls. I hope it’s fake as I’ve been sending them money for years.

So does this mean girls in China and India are safe then? Since they biologically don’t exist?

Of course they aren’t. They will still be murdered/abandoned/aborted for being a girl

I just rang them up - I wanted to confirm that this was real (!) I spoke to a very polite, helpful person who by her voice I’m pretty sure was a trans woman. She confirmed that this will be up on their website soon. She encouraged me to email [email protected]

I can see that a charity like this will need to work with men, boys & transgender men and women as part of their work. But can’t they do it without saying biological sex doesn’t exist? I feel like crying. Their stuff about period poverty is so good ... how can they do this?

But... there's a literal genetic difference.

Women have XX chromosomes, men have XY chromosomes. How do they define that then?

Well everyone on the Twitter thread is responding to @actionaiduk so if it's a fake it should be clarified quickly.

Yes, genitals don't define gender, but they do define our sex. Because, ya know, biology.

www.actionaid.org.uk/file/a-feminist-approach-to-safe-spaces-for-women-and-girls-in-humanitarian-response-actionaid-uk

Do we know who was responsible for this? Was it a 14 year old work experience bod who was let loose on the twitter account or someone with authority?

Gender and sex aren't the same. If your gender is female but not your sex then you can't expect to use 'single sex spaces'. The clue is in the name.

A proud declaration that they do not accept UK equality law.

Sex is a protected characteristic under UK law. It is defined as male or female.

How many other laws derived from international human rights can you imagine any organisation focused on human rights publicly disagreeing with?

It’s quite sad they boil biological sex down to genitalia when there’s so many other physical aspects to it.