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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

The Women's Organisation stands up for women

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Manderleyagain · 11/10/2021 12:33

Apols of I've missed a thread on this. The women's organisation have gone public to stick up for women.

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/10/09/calls-public-inquiry-bullying-people-speak-gender-issues/
There is an archive version, but I'm not sure I'm allowed to link to it.

The ceo has written to liz truss calling for a public enquiry into bullying etc of women who try and speak about gender, citing threats if violence and vilification of women in almost every area if life. Trans campaigns are creating a climate of fear making organisations reluctant to offer women only facilities. She makes extremely good points.

I hope they planned for it to be made public rather than it being leaked.

I hope they don't backtrack. Their twitter has gone private and their Facebook has disappeared when I checked yesterday. It looks like a really good charity. I'm sure they would appreciate some positive support.
www.thewomensorganisation.org.uk/

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vivariumvivariumsvivaria · 11/10/2021 12:40

They have done this and had to go offline?

Jeeeeeeeesus.

What is wrong with the world?

Bosky · 11/10/2021 17:05

@vivariumvivariumsvivaria

They have done this and had to go offline?

Jeeeeeeeesus.

What is wrong with the world?

That link is still working for me:

www.thewomensorganisation.org.uk/

SimpleHoardOfTruth · 11/10/2021 17:19

The website link is good, but their Twitter is now protected and the link to their Facebook page doesn't work.

Datafan55 · 11/10/2021 17:26

I have added to my list of orgs to look at to support.

Imnobody4 · 11/10/2021 17:39

I hadn't heard of them before, they look like the kind of organisation the Tories will listen to.

The Women’s Organisation says attacks by trans activists on Professor Stock - along with similar campaigns against Joanna Cherry QC, the barrister and SNP MP for Edinburgh, and the author JK Rowling - are part of a virulent campaign by groups whose aims also include dismantling the current Equalities Act, Education and Gender Recognition Act.

This allows for certain women-only spaces and facilities, such as in sports and in hospitals, prisons, refuges and other institutions.
Opponents of the Act are demanding that trans people who self-identify as women should have access to such official women-only spaces and facilities, regardless of their biological sex.

The Women’s Organisation claims trans campaigns in the field of policing, health, the arts, housing and sport, are creating a climate of fear in which organisations become reluctant to provide facilities for women only.

It says such campaigns are also leading to widespread inhibition by people as to what they say and even what language they use, even when describing themselves.
In her letter to Ms Truss, Ms Carroll - who has been named as one of the 100 most influential people in the UK’s social enterprise sector - states: “In workplaces up and down the country . . . staff members are reporting feeling intimidated to publish their pronouns in the workplace, fearing reprisals from other staff and union representatives if they do not subscribe to a particular workplace dogma relating to gender identity or shared facilities.”

TRAs are kinda proving their points.

Bosky · 11/10/2021 18:21

@SimpleHoardOfTruth

The website link is good, but their Twitter is now protected and the link to their Facebook page doesn't work.
Another superb own-goal by the lunatics rampaging on Social Media 😂

Those women are networked with businesses, Chambers of Commerce, Councils, etc, across the UK.

If they have been receiving the usual death threats, rancid dick pics and attacks on their businesses they are going to be making sure that others in their spheres of influence get to know about it. I hope they go out out and get a shed-load of local press coverage.

I bet they don’t get the same push-back in the business community that we have seen in the Unions though it pains me to say it.

BraveBananaBadge · 11/10/2021 21:07

Oh that's amazing. The Women's Org is local to me and it's such a relief to see them nail their colours to the mast like this. The Echo might cover this negatively if at all (one of their reporters had to delete some dim tweets about Kathleen Stock the other day) but there could be a few wiser heads in the city that have been waiting for something like this to go public.

I don't think you can backtrack anymore these days - you don't wade in like this without knowing what you're in for.

Manderleyagain · 11/10/2021 21:55

The only thing that worries me is she wrote to liz truss, but did she mean it to go to the telegraph. I really hope so, and imagine so because of the way the article is written, the journalist lined up comments by other orgs too and it doesn't say anything about 'leaked documents suggest...', but I don't know how these things work.

The ceo seems to be v well respected. Perhaps as its north west (not the wokst neck of the woods) based, and in the world of business rather public sector or arts say she felt a little more able to do it without the ceiling falling in, compared to London based womens sector orgs.

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