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WDI news

WDI fringe event - FiLiA - 23 October, Cardiff

WDI will be holding a fringe event at the Angel Hotel on Sunday 23 October. Come along to hear talks from WDI women including Sheila Jeffreys, Kara Dansky, Lauren Levey, Amparo Domingo and more, along with various workshops. Sign up and see the full agenda here.

WDI on YouTube

The WDI YouTube channel contains recordings of all our webinars. Check out this amazing resource to hear women from all over the world speak about their experience of gender identity ideology and women's rights. 

Saturday 15 October:

Sheila Jeffreys, UK, The Rise of Kink
Ana from RadFem Berlin, Germany, Report about the International Feminist Resistance organised by Radfem Berlin
FEMINISA, Brazil, How far can transactivists go to chase women?

Register here. 

Radical Feminist Perspectives (RFP) takes place on Sundays at 10.00 UK time.

Sunday 16 October: Marilyn Frye's "The Politics of Reality" discussed by Kara Dansky & Julia Beck

Register here.

Campaigns

CPS consultation on rape by deception

The UK's Crown Prosecution Service is consulting the public about deception in rape and sexual assault cases. Its information page is full of ideological language and inaccuracies. Please respond if you can. 

Sex-based rights around the world

Women killed in Iranian protests

Girls and women, including teenager Nika Shakarami, have been beaten to death in the Iranian authorities crackdown on protests against forced hijab. 

Dana Rivers trial begins

The trial of a man for murdering two lesbian women and their son in 2016 has finally begun, unreported by major media outlets. Follow Kara Dansky on Twitter for more information. 

Male TikTok influencer charged with child sex abuse

An Australian man who pretends to be a woman has been charged with multiple counts of child sex abuse. 

Mermaids under fire

UK gender identity ideology lobbyists, Mermaids, are under fire for appointing a trustee who spoke at a conference organised by a paedophile support group and for various other safeguarding breaches including sending binders to girls without their parents' knowledge. Read Jo Bartosch's take in Spiked. 

TRA speeches to be shown to Irish school girls

The Shine Festival, described as an 'empowering event for the women and young girls of Ireland', was broadcast to Irish classrooms this week featuring a 60-year-old man who pretends to be a woman. 

TWAW, except when they're not

The Biden administration requires men to register to be drafted in the event of a war even if they claim to be women and have changed their legal documentation. 

UK govt announces new policy on men in women's prisons

The UK government has announced a new policy on admitting men to women's prisons - those who retain male genitalia and/or who have committed sex offences will be excluded, but exceptions will still be made. 

Resources

Teenagers and 'gender identity'

Latest publication from Sex Matters, written by Stella O'Malley and Matilda Gosling, is aimed at parents of 'gender-distressed' children. 'In their report for Sex Matters, they distil the existing research and outline what is known about those who develop gender dysphoria as older children or teenagers.'

The Queering of the Arts

Women's Rights Network's Delyth Rennie writes on how the 'queering' of the arts erases women. 

Paying lip service to women's rights

Detailed article by Julian Vigo on the 'love affair with gender' at the London School of Economics that led to its support for the deeply questionable research of paedophile apologist Dr Jacob Breslow and others. 

Events

Women Are Not Afraid - at FILIA

Pauline Makoveitchoux is organising a Women Are Not Afraid session at FILIA. If you would like to take part you can contact Pauline through her website or through the Whova app. Born in September 2019, Pauline's photographic series Women Are Not Afraid is composed of several hundred individual portraits and around twenty group pictures. This project expresses the reappropriation of public spaces at night by women. It aims to give visibility to powerful women who legitimately take back public space. Pauline wishes to present the strong and determined faces and looks of these women, who brave the dangers of misogynistic violence to live their freedom of movement. In 2021, one of Pauline's exhibits in my home town of Vitry-sur-Seine was damaged for not being "inclusive enough" (she refuses to include men who cross-dress in her art). Since then, like many of us, Pauline has been a victim of harassment, threats and cancel culture. She has decided not to be intimidated, and to continue photographing women everywhere. Since she has been publicly stating gender critical positions, she has noticed that many of us are not afraid, and more and more women are contacting her to take part in her series. This is why she has decided to travel wherever she is asked to continue. Watch a short video about the project. 

Sovereign Women Speak - Tacoma, 11-13 November

The next Sovereign Women Speak event takes place in Tacoma, WA, 11-13 November. Visit the website for full schedule information. 

Nordic Model Now - Students for Sale conference, 15 October

Tickets and programme available here.