Womankind Worldwide - help please

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Hi

I donate regularly to Womankind Worldwide and really like what they do, across countries where it's pretty shit to be a woman (Afghanistan, Sudan, Congo, Uganda). Or I thought I did.

I've just seen this tweet from them https://x.com/woman_kind/status/1919381973908217938 which then goes to this statement https://www.womankind.org.uk/no-one-of-us-can-be-free-until-everybody-is-free-womankinds-stance-on-trans-rights/

I'm pissed off, as a) they didn't need to make a statement. A lot of their work isn't in the UK. b) the statement is from 2022 so they've apparently been erasing women since then anyway.

Can anyone help me with an email to them to say how disappointing this is. Or do I just cancel my direct debit and tell them why? eg they've included the immortal words 'educate yourself' and 'How exactly are trans people oppressed?'

Or do I accept my money is still helping women in those countries and I just have to grit my teeth. Or can anyone recommend an alternative charity?

Thanks

I think it’s become another bastardised phrase, I agree with you that that is what intersectionalism ought to mean (e.g. if you are a black, disabled lesbian you face potential discrimination on four fronts rathe than the single front you’d face if you were a white, non-disabled straight woman). But it seems that it is now code for “including some male people in your definition of women, and excluding a few women too for good measure”.

If donate to an organisation in order to support women then I want my money to go to supporting women, no one else.

Not men who want to be women. Not orphaned boys. Not disabled men. Not overworked female donkeys. Women.

https://www.beyondfgm.com/
this charity works exclusively to bring an end to fgm and child marriage in the Pokot area of Kenya, it partners with grassroots women and has good community engagement

I’m looking at Wonder
https://wonderfoundation.org.uk/how-we-work/

anyone know any more?