Petition Anyone can be a Woman

Inez

Hello All

I was a longtime member of 9EB, but didn’t join the other site due to security concerns about the moderation team.

I found Motherboard through Mumsnet and have been lurking for a while, but found the impetus to join today in the hope that more people will sign/share and raise awareness of the issues raised by this petition. As you know, there have been increasing attacks/undermining of science and education by gender ideologists. Women’s rights are being eroded from every direction.

Please read/sign/share

https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/anyone-can-be-a-woman

squeekums

Welcome!

and signed

Inez

Marmalade

Yes, unfortunately. That’s why they had to put the note at the bottom about a cabinet reshuffle. It’s not great, but lets face it they’re all pretty bad/uninformed.

Thanks for the welcome OnFire LadySybilVimes @Chookas NightHawk

CassandraNORI squeekums

CassandraNORI

Really good article, thanks! It points out really succinctly so many of the tactics they use.

I think we need people who can point out things clearly and briefly. I personally struggle to get all the issues out before the audience dies of boredom.

CassandraNORI

Welcome @Inez - signed as well. Why isn’t the definition of the word ‘man’ getting the same treatment, I wonder?

I saw on twitter someone has put up a billboard in New Zealand saying “Woman = Adult Human Female”, I’m not sure of the backstory but there is whinging about it being transphobic. How is defining a woman transphobic? I really wish someone would answer that. I’ll try to find the link.

Have signed as well.

CassandraNORI

Here it is:

Chookas

CassandraNORI

And, apparently it’s been taken down. FMD!

NightHawk

Thanks for joining 🤗

CassandraNORI

Dystopia! Chookas

Inez

Thanks for the welcome everyone. And thanks for signing.

I feel like we’re at a dangerous tipping point that most people don’t even know about. And that it isn’t possible to speak openly about, without copping abuse, or worse.

I’m frightened for our daughters. At the moment it seems like the TRA/MRA alliance is winning, and idiotic libfem women are helping them to dismantle hard-won rights, because they are all so eager to “be kind”. (Or, cynically speaking, because there’s an advantage in it for them)

CassandraNORI

I’m surprised the billboard lasted for as long as it did. And of course it was a woman calling for it’s removal. Honestly, the TRAs don’t have to do anything anymore, their cult members will do it for them.

Chookas

Signed, what a load of nonsense!

And welcome, glad you found us.

CassandraNORI

Yes it’s actually so insidious - like the boiling frog analogy. And the shut-us-down catch phrase being ‘transphobe!’ without any critical thinking or analysis being engaged.

Inez

May I just say, below is why we need science to actually be fucking scientific, and education to actually be fucking educational.

LadySybilVimes

Signed! And welcome!

RichardParker

There’s so much wrong with our education system. it’s so concerning that people are sacrificing reason for ideology.

Is signed. Thanks for sharing.

CassandraNORI

Article about the NZ case here -

https://speakupforwomen.nz/sufw_press_release/we-will-not-shush/

“We’ve been here before and I won’t lie, it is exhausting. We have made it clear from day one that our issue is with law and the conflation of sex and gender. We have never wished harm on trans people and quite frankly, if these activists have proof that we have it is time they shared it, Speak Up For Women’s spokesperson Beth Johnson says.

“We are told that these activists speak for the most vulnerable group of people in the world, but the power they wield in local and central government indicates that they are simply a powerful lobby group. They certainly don’t speak for the trans people who have shown up to our events in support of our position.‘

OnFire

Signed.

Welcome to motherboard @Inez

Marmalade

Was about to sign but does that say CHristian Porter? As in The Christian Porter?

Chookas

Marmalade

He’s still a minister 🤯

CassandraNORI

This is a good article

Barbara Kay: Diluting the meaning of ‘woman,’ to appease transgender activists, is misogyny

“In his writings on totalitarianism, George Orwell powerfully exposed the link between the manipulation of language and the erosion of individual liberty. Ideologues understand that linguistic control precedes, and is crucial to, political and cultural power. The novel 1984 illuminated the shame in being compelled — figuratively — to endorse the lie that two plus two is five.

For those who follow gender politics, vocabulary manipulation by ideologues is one of the biggest cultural stories of our time. No ideologues make more aggressive use of this strategy than radical male-to-female transactivists. They can be ruthless in mobbing anyone who dares to resist their linguistic hegemony. Transactivists reserve particular animus for the thought crime they perceive in the factual statement that “a transwoman is a biological male who identifies as a woman,” rather than the official transactivist mantra that a transwoman “is” a woman.

This latter belief is held only by a statistically nugatory number of transactivists and gender-studies academics. And yet, remarkably, otherwise intelligent professionals with social and cultural influence have willingly accepted this redefinition, forswearing objectivity and cognitive precision to appease gender tyranny“

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/barbara-kay-transwomen-deserve-respect-but-they-arent-women/wcm/acec9953-469f-4808-9df4-7aa95a7812d6/amp/

Sorry about the extra large font can’t fix it

CassandraNORI

And this is where we end up -

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/woman-charged-after-allegedly-sexually-assaulting-6-year-old-boy-in-toronto-park-1.5507627

This is not an anomaly, a one off - this is just the latest crime being attributed to a woman, recorded as a woman’s crime, reported as a woman having committed it, and in order to be kind we are expected to nod along, accept it.