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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Women's Aid has appointed a new CE - not looking hopeful

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stumbledin · 15/01/2021 15:52

This was announced earlier this week that Farah Nazeer is the new CE www.womensaid.org.uk/farah-nazeer-is-announced-as-womens-aid-new-chief-executive/

She seems to have had a long career in the charity sector but worryingly her most recent job was at Action Aid. Some may remember this from last year: “ActionAid UK understands there is no such thing as a ‘biologically female/male body’.” www.civilsociety.co.uk/news/actionaid-faces-criticism-over-use-of-word-gender-campaign.html

She was also a Labour Councillor in east London.

Who knows maybe she want to be at Womens Aid so she doesn't have to adhere to the Labour Party or the Action Aid line on twaw.

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HecatesCats · 15/01/2021 16:12

That Action Aid email - from a charity that supports women and girls overseas in sometimes terrible circumstances, where their biological sex 💯 affects how they are treated - is pretty devastating. How can people write that sort of thing with a clear conscience?

despairenting · 15/01/2021 16:29

“ActionAid UK understands there is no such thing as a ‘biologically female/male body’.”

I'm still livid about this easily refuted, cruel, insane nonsense.

FireUnderTheHand · 15/01/2021 16:33

@HecatesCats

That Action Aid email - from a charity that supports women and girls overseas in sometimes terrible circumstances, where their biological sex 💯 affects how they are treated - is pretty devastating. How can people write that sort of thing with a clear conscience?
Because it doesn't affect them, and they know better as they are from a different 'better and civilized' world so they really don't care beyond what other people see/think from their same or similar different 'better and civilized' world.

None of these people have experienced/experience the following as a norm in their daily existence: carry water for their family through dangerous terrain with the ever present threat of rape and/or abduction and/or being murdered; sent to menstrual huts for the shame of biological reality they cannot escape/control; spend their lives in a place where girls/women are treated like breeding stock only to be traded when their usefulness has run out for their families or when their families decide they need to sell a daughter for whatever dowry they can get and those sold have no escape; facing an entitled man/men throwing acid on them for acting in a way that said entitled man/men determines unchaste and/or deserving of punishment. And the list runs on in perpetuity for human females...

It is all about who 'looks best' not whether or not they are actually considering and making strides in regards to helping those they purport to support/empower.

IMO charities that spit in the face of their asserted mission by blurring the lines of the group of people they represent should be shut down and/or lose funding and should have to pay back all donations/funding that did not serve the stated mission based on dictionary definitions of words in the language in which they are written/carried out.

NecessaryScene1 · 15/01/2021 16:38

“ActionAid UK understands there is no such thing as a ‘biologically female/male body’.”

Yet somehow men understand the difference. So, that prompts the questions...

Are these charities actually stupider than your typical man? And should we give money to organisations that stupid?

persistentwoman · 15/01/2021 16:45

Senior positions in the charity sector / local & national government sector are a tiny merry go round of "approved" candidates. With the policy stranglehold that Stonewall etc have on these sectors, nothing will change until the lawsuits, judicial reviews and scandals about unlicensed unethical medical treatments and harm done to children and the vulnerable unfold.
Then, as we have seen with the fishy ones, reverse ferrets will abound. "Oh no, I never said 'born in the wrong body" "Oh no, I never called women cervix havers" "Oh no, I never thought puberty blockers for children were a good idea" At present they're all too terrified of the abuse and threats that they would get should they dare to say anything more profound than "It's complicated" and "Pleeeaase be kind"

Silence and complicity abound.

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