Storyhouse Chester Women's weekend

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This is for the Storyhouse Women annual festival.

Doh 🤦‍♀️

If they are funded as a single sex group under the EqA2010 then they’re breaking the law.

So Storyhouse Chester Anybody Who Fancies Turning Up Weekend..

When they put down this as criteria I do wonder how they can ever stop anyone from joining. If it’s based on simply saying I identify as female then it seems pretty obvious they wouldn’t be able to object to any man saying those words. How would they, when it’s so woolly. What if he identifies as female just for this - is that acceptable? It all seems such a nonsense.

Groundhog Day: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/3714178-Womens-event-suffering-from-a-lack-of-men

Just call it a queer weekend or a Gender Identities weekend ffs, and be honest about it. The defining feature won't be 'women' it will be 'people of both sexes who like identity play and labels', that's the shared characteristic.

Which is fine, no one would care beyond those who wanted to go. It's the faux naive pretending it is something it isn't that values women, when in fact it's focused on enablement of male fantasy that is the issue.

And that if women actually did try to organise a weekend for women they'd be harassed as hard as possible to try and get them to stop it. As per usual. It's all about the word 'women' now belonging to men and the raised two fingers to women.

I was momentarily interested - until I got to the ‘identifying’ bit. Shame

Oh, I hadn't seen that from 2019. There was a little disruption last year on this point. I was wondering what they'd do this year; they've recently changed the downstairs women's tickets to gender neutral but do have women's toilets elsewhere. They are very very captured, but otherwise a fabulous place. I just can't see why they can't have a women's event and separately a trans event if they want one. I keep waiting for them to back down but they haven't yet....

I love the place though, I'm not willing to risk getting barred....