Rape Crisis NI will be joining trans allies to protest Let Women Speak event in Belfast on Sunday 16 April 2023 1pm

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My Mum co-founded the first Rape Crisis Centre in Northern Ireland. I told her about the below(*), she was shaking with rage and felt physically ill. I got a quote from her for @RapeCrisis_NI,

‘You are not feminists, what you’re doing goes against the ethos of any actual rape crisis in the world, which is about women being there for women and children. There will be true rape crisis counsellors at the #LetWomenSpeak event who have worked in this country for over 30 years supporting survivors of rape and sexual abuse whilst you handmaidens betray women.’

(*) See https://twitter.com/NoraUtd/status/1646874371129069569
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If you read the twitter thread you will see this in one of the responses

The original one that closed due to funding cuts was for women only. The new one that opened years later in 2020 seems to have changed the criteria to all. The previous one lost funding for being too specialist…. Wonder if this was a theme?
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The BBC have written a news story about the LWS Belfast event and planned protests and that The Women's Rights Network was able to show the film Adult Human Female in Belfast.

BBC report here with maybe a bit of a slant?! ie they aren't counter protests as LWS events are protest but freedom of speech for women events https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-65187388

just going to repeat this from the post you responded to

Rape Crisis NI are using their time and resources to protest a legal public event, organised by women, who hold different opinions than they do

that doesn't worry you? not even a little bit?

No!

FFS

Hi!

about this

Rape Crisis NI are using their time and resources to protest a legal public event, organised by women, who hold different opinions than they do

does that seem like a good use of their time to you?

Trans women are not males who identify as women, trans women are women," he said.

This is a perfect example of the level of honesty we are dealing with here.

Dishonesty is like a seam running through the whole ideology.

FFS! What keeps your ears apart? Can't you see the clue in the title? Let Women Speak. Not Let GC Women Speak.

In her own words three hours ago

She’s a women’s rights campaigner

she not an anti trans activist. But you already know that!

I (and I'm sure, many others) judge her by what she says, not what she calls her rallies.

Judge her judge her the total witch

burn her burn her the total witch

LET WOMEN SPEAK

So what does she say that enables you to say that she's an anti-trans activist? And no, the reference to men who carry doesn't count.

Hi!

does this seem like a good use of Rape Crisis NI's time and resources?

Rape Crisis NI are using their time and resources to protest a legal public event, organised by women, who hold different opinions than they do

I'm sure KJK couldn't give two hoots how MRAs and TRAs 'judge' her. Just like she doesn't give two hoots about how feminists view her.

Not everyone seeks validation in outside opinion, or can only cope when met with zero dissent, opposition or challenge.

Sigh - I complained to the Beeb - again - about describing KJK as an anti trans activist, in what passes for reporting nowadays.
Clearly neither they nor the men's rights activists even bother to examine what she is saying, they are too busy fantasising and lying about reality to engage in a proper discussion.
Or too afraid that their arguments simply don't hold up to examination.

No

Judge away. Literally no one cares.
As a PP said, some people are grown up/mentally stable enough to handle different opinions and they are respected all the more for it.
Those who sit in judgement of others from their puritanical glass houses however, not so much.

It's amazing how angry women speaking still makes people.

Yes isn't it.

Even, perhaps specifically, if only one word is spoken... No.

GC women who've been raped, or women of any political stripe who have been raped and have a trauma response to biological males, are betrayed by RCNI. RCNI will not support these women's need for female-only therapeutic space because RCNI think that "women-only" means "some people with penises too". GC women are women. Androphobic women are women. Supporting women's rights means supporting the rights of all women, even the ones you might disagree with, because women's rights are for all women, by definition. Supporting female rape victims means supporting all female rape victims, not just the ones who will parrot TWAW. RCNI have signaled clearly that some women are, in their eyes, unworthy of rape crisis support. RCNI are therefore not fit for purpose, because they will not support all women.

The next opinion that RCNI might decide that adherents to are unworthy of support may be an opinion that you hold, or your sister holds, or your mother holds.

Yes. Belfast is in the same timezone as the rest of the UK. Are you in the UK OP?

I need to correct another statement. Our original Rape Crisis shut down because of lack of funds around 2010. Not because they weren't inclusive, because services were being cut to the bone. I remember the documentary at the time and how angry I was because all Rape Crisis needed to stay afloat was around £20k. They didn't get it.

Ok.

What does she say? Give us the exact transcripts or tweets or verified articles.

Otherwise you are again spreading disinformation as well as misinformation.

So if KJK is talking about "women's rights" in Ireland soon (tomorrow I think), will she be mentioning the recent murder of a sexworker in Limerick?

https://sexworkersallianceireland.org/2023/04/we-told-you-this-would-happen-says-sex-workers-alliance-ireland-about-the-murder-of-a-sex-worker-in-limerick/

Prof Whittle on Twitter:

twitter.com/stephenwhittle/status/1647298393746685955?s=46&t=WHoOZ_3Kv5G6-FyQuvE0LQ

"Belfast, Sunday ( tomorrow) Please turn out & give a New Zealand welcome toKellie Jay K M (Posie Parker) 1-5pm, Writers Square & The MAC, & The Big Fish on the LaganBank. Everyone welcome All support appreciated. Please retweet"

If you listened when women speak you would know that KJK is not travelling or hosting a woman's speaking event in Ireland 'soon'.

She will be in Belfast, in the UK tomorrow.

Why you think she should use the tragic death of a prostituted woman murdered in a different country under a different legal framework as a talking point eludes me.

Show some respect. The death of a trafficked human is not something anybody stomachs as acceptable fodder for a piss poor internet gotcha attempt.

Why would she?!
These events aren't KJK speechfests, where other women just turn up to hear Kellie speak for an hour, they are events for other women to speak, not her, she just pins the mic on them, which you should know, surely? You do know how these events work, don't you?
Maybe another woman will talk about that, that's entirely for speakers to decide, you know, the content of their own speeches, that they get to make because KJK
lets them speak, as per the name of these events!
#LETWOMENSPEAK!!!