FFS a course for “women” isn’t actually after all ..:

[Szyz2020]

Just need to rant really. I’m doing a workplace course which is for and about women. Lots of depressing stats about pay gaps, FGM, domestic burden, women’s rights. Lots of stuff about reflecting on our experiences as women, what’s shaped us, our responsibilities, outlook, societal expectations. The aim being to empower people, to learn from our experiences and to help women progress in the workplace.

But of course “women” includes everyone according to the workbook. I cannot sit through this if I have to listen to all the sex-based oppression and facts being thrown at us only to read in the next section of course materials that someone born male who’s decided they too are a woman also suffers from all of this stuff. Just fuck off and have your own course about your own problems and difficulties, stop appropriating ours!

Also they have substituted “gender” for “sex” in their quoting of the 2010 Equality Act

Can you make a complaint?

Tell the course organiser that, as they cannot even quote legislation correctly, you have lost faith in the course and will not be attending/want a refund as appropriate.

Also they have substituted “gender” for “sex” in their quoting of the 2010 Equality Act

Easy enough to correct that.

only to read in the next section of course materials that someone born male who’s decided they too are a woman also suffers from all of this stuff.

What sort of course is it and who made the work book?

If it's just one example and it's arguably relevant I'd probably ignore it to avoid looking like a dick. If they are stating that TWAW I'd be complaining about them making claims that are highly controversial and wrong on current law because that's inappropriate for a training course.

Keep.your objections bland, fact based and technical so it's hard to reply by calling transphobia or making empty statements about inclusion.

I haven’t paid for it, it’s a work course. It’s not impacting on the classroom teaching. I just despair of a preachy manual that is all about empowering women to overcome all the societal and other obstacles which then on the next page casually gives away the very definition of being a women to anyone who wants to be one. It just discredits the whole thing and makes me want to disengage.