Another man taking a woman's place.....

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twitter.com/PoetintheCityUK/status/1503784417998917634/photo/1
They've got us down, now they're poking us with sticks.... :(

@Gumbomambo

It’s just ridiculous how can anyone think this is ok?

I came to post the same

I was looking into this "Festival" again, and all photographs of this bod seem to have been disappeared somehow, and proper women are now showing up. However, I looked at the Facebook page of some "feminists" called Women Reclaim, and one of their posts was this one. So disappointing. I would like to ask them, at what point can a man turn into a woman? Years, months,weeks,days,overnight? In the blink of an eye? It makes a nonsense of their "feminism". I'd also like to send them the screenshots of this lovely person and their opinion of women, (but I don't want to expose myself!) I self ID as a coward :)

They spelled harassed wrong

@IcakethereforeIam

Feck, rash, bloody autocorrect! By all means do Rush. Rush were awesome.

Rush are amazing!

(Insert Beavis and Butthead gif here)

I have put in an FOI request asking about the process by which this person was engaged. Legally, they have to provide a response, so we will see what they say. There is also a well-defined appeals process, should they try to wibble their way out of it…..

@Yesterdaysleftovers

I have put in an FOI request asking about the process by which this person was engaged. Legally, they have to provide a response, so we will see what they say. There is also a well-defined appeals process, should they try to wibble their way out of it…..

*Slow clap emoji here

Can I just add ‘Esme Houston’ in too?

Scottish young greens posted them as part of International women’s celebration. So a young female has now missed out being recognised for their efforts.

twitter.com/scotyounggreens/status/1504389659664826379?s=21

This lot have promoted 2 trans people to one woman so far this month for International Women's Month.
twitter.com/scotyounggreens/status/1504389659664826379?s=21

I laughed at "herr ". I am an awful person. titters behind hand

I could almost feel sorry for Esme, 'madam's apple'!

Well. USA Today has named Rachel Levine as one of there exceptional women of the year. So …. There is another place a woman won’t have.

@nepeta

This whole trend (gender ideology taking over) has been so enlightening about the general expectations on how bog-standard women should behave.

We should prioritise everyone else's concerns, and that is the expected behaviour. So trans women, trans men, and nonbinary people (read: fully human people as compared to two-dimensional sexist stereotypes) should all get precedence and their concerns validated first, even if that means erasing our embodied identities entirely, stripping us from all female role models, and re-framing our lot as the only truly privileged one.

The sad thing is that this is working, partly, because it IS expected, so anyone protesting it is called terrible names and threatened.

thats not true think about it, its the othering again. when do they ever talk about trans men? they dont, and the NBs get less of a mention.

Trans men are only in the news when they have babies, its the fetishism again because the ultimate aim of the trans woman is prove they are women by having children (no matter how many drugs and implanted organs from dead females are required to do so) so they can finally overcome the biggest barrier to colonization.

NBs hardly ever get a look in except as lackies to shout the mantra, if you look back to the olympics when a NB got a medel in womens football, the majority of the press were far more interested in Hubbard's failure, overwhelmingly so.

this is about men, its a big old can of worms that has revealed how misogynistic western society really is, as simone de beauvoir said "humanity is male and man defines woman not in herself, but as relative to him, she is not regarded as an autonomous being, he is the subject , he is the absolute, she is the other".

The trans gender movement is proof of that, the pecking order is
1 is the man preferably white and able bodied.
2 is the trans woman.
3 is the NB as many of them are male.
4 is the trans man at least they are trying.
5 is the woman, bottom of the pile still the other.

Autumn Sandeen? The American serviceman who was the first "woman" whatever whatever?

No thank you!

Esme Houston looks exactly like half my class in the 80s.

That's not a trans woman, that's a goth.

Lord save us from this shit.

My local library is organising an International Women's Day event and the top billed guest poet is a trans identified man. It's a fucking disgrace.

Is it Thea? Is she a samuri or did she not get on the hormones in time to stop the male pattern baldness. Read her poem Solidarity, she does like her stereotypes.

@IcakethereforeIam Theo until very recently. Only in his early 20s.

@vivariumvivariumsvivaria

Esme Houston looks exactly like half my class in the 80s.

That's not a trans woman, that's a goth.

What a lot of unnecessary pronouns Esme uses. Just stick to a couple dear, it’s honestly all you need.

Pardon my pronouns, I was hedging my bets in case it wasn't Thea! This probably deserves its own thread.

They've cancelled the event and put it online due to 'safety concerns'

https://www.poetinthecity.co.uk/news/statement-herstory?fbclid=IwAR2ESFP4v3DJQEBHwwSSP19ODpJtgilr3jbLX-gcnvYz5FRY8JjM3qPxk

Surely the organisers can invite anyone they want to speak. Their event; their prerogative.

If people don’t like it (i) don’t go, or (ii) organise your own event. Then you’re guaranteed to be catered for!

Surely the organisers can invite anyone they want to speak. Their event; their prerogative.

Sure they can, if they want to make a compete mockery of the concept of 'herstory'. They can't do it and not expect to be criticised roundly for doing so.

@Janesmom

Surely the organisers can invite anyone they want to speak. Their event; their prerogative.

If people don’t like it (i) don’t go, or (ii) organise your own event. Then you’re guaranteed to be catered for!

Great.

Don’t call it a celebration of ‘women’s’ achievement though. Call it a celebration of ‘whatever mixed sex / special group’ you want. But don’t include people who are male in female events. Unless it is in a special category.

How is it fair and celebrating women’s achievements when still today from birth, girls experience sexist discrimination and a male is included in that celebration? One who has not overcome the issues that the women have had to? Sure, they have overcome their own issues, but sexist discrimination from birth is not one of them.

And if you are not celebrating the overcoming of sexist discrimination, why have a sex segregated event at all?

Same with recognising LGBT or any other segregated category event. If you are not recognising that person’s achievement of overcoming discrimination for that protected characteristic why have that public event?

Totally different if it was celebrating the achievement of a private group. But this was a public event supposedly celebrating female achievement.

Obviously, some people will try to equate the issues that a transitioned male has had to overcome vs that of a female. But it is foolish to do so, it is a false equivalence.

And any person who thinks girls today experience no sexist discrimination (including that from their own peers), either don’t have young children who are girls or live in utopia. In which case, please tell where you live because I think we will all want to join you.

And by special category, I mean a category that is open to both sexes. Such as one of ‘someone who has supported women achieve’ in a way that deserves recognition.

But a category open to both sexes.