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WDI will be trialling a fortnightly newsletter for the next few weeks so our next edition will be out on Wednesday 4 May. If you have any feedback please email us. 

'The Anti-Feminism of Emerging Counter-Sexualities'

Maria-José Binetti of WDI Argentina writes in the Spanish journal Clepsydra on why the political project that Paul-B. Preciado calls “counter-sexual” clashes on principle with the political project of feminism. An abstract in English is available here. 

'It's all getting much worse - and fast'

WDI USA's Kara Dansky writes on the promotion of puberty blockers and worse in US elementary school education. 

WDI Australia - political parties are failing to protect women's sex-based rights

Members of major parties across the political spectrum are being bullied out of expressing their concerns about the harmful impact of extreme trans ideology.
Liberal candidate for Warringah, Katherine Deves, has been under siege for some time forcing her to close her social media accounts containing her important campaigning on behalf of “Save Women’s Sports Australasia”. Read the full press release from WDI Australia.
WDI Slovenia launches new Facebook page
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WDI webinars are availble as podcasts

If you prefer to listen to our webinars as a podcast you can find them all on Anchor.fm. 

WDI Feminist Question Time (FQT) takes place on Saturdays at 15.00 UK time. This week, 23 April, we have Vaishnavi Sundar from India on the historic women-led protests in India, Rosa Borg from  Malta, MK Fain from the USA, and the volunteer managing the WDI US Spinster account discussing social media accounts and Spinster, and Luba Fein, Israel, Gender Ideologists' Crusade against the Nordic Model. Register here. 

WDI Radical Feminist Perspectives (RFP) takes place on Sundays at 10.00 UK time. This week, 24 April, we are discussing Lesser known radical feminist pamphlets and articles from 1970-1980 introduced by Bec Wonders, with Jo Brew. Register here.

Campaigns

Please support Spanish academic and feminist Juana Gallego

Please sign this statement (organised by Confluencia Movimiento Feminista) in support of Professor Juana Gallego of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, who has been subjected to a campaign of cancellation and harassment by students and the university itself. The statement has over 3,000 letters of support already and we would love to help show that Professor Gallego has support from all over the world. 

Sign the petition for an inquiry into anti-women activists at Cardiff University

If you are based in Wales or the rest of the UK please sign this petition to ask the Welsh government to look into the activities of anti-women activists at Cardiff University who have carried out a campaign of harassment against academics who are critical of Stonewall. 

Sex-based rights around the world

Oklahoma enacts near-total ban on abortion from conception

Oklahoma governor, Kevin Stitt, has signed a draconian bill banning abortion in almost all circumstances from conception into law.  

Men included in Brazilian violence against women law

Brazil's highest court rules that a law intended to protect women victims of domestic violence applies to men who claim to be women. 

Gender ideology makes its way into corporate life in India

The corporate sector in India is beginning to incorporate gender ideology into working life. 

Oxford University Press Union campaigns to cancel feminist book

The Oxford University Press Union has launched a campaign to cancel the upcoming publication of Dr Holly Lawford-Smith's book 'Gender Critical Feminism'. 

UK MoJ publishes trans statistics

The UK's Ministry of Justice has published statistics on prisoners who claim a trans identity. 

Scottish minister compares feminists to racists and anti-semites

Lorna Slater, Scottish Greens, compared women's rights activists to racists and anti-semites in remarks published last week. She also claimed that women's rights groups in the UK are funded by right-wing American groups but did not provide any evidence. 

Male police officers can carry out searches of women

Guidance from police authorities in the UK says that male officers who claim to be women can carry out strip searches on women and that if the woman objects a 'non-crime hate incident' may be recorded against her. 

Female prisoner sent to male prison

A woman claiming a trans identity was sent to a male prison in New Zealand despite still having a correct female identifier on her official documents. 

Male killer demands to be treated as a baby in prison

Daniel Eastwood, a male killer who pretends to be a woman, has now claimed to be a baby and asked for nappies and baby food. He has already been given a dummy by prison authorities. 

UK LGBT conference cancelled

A government-run LGBT conference, 'Safe to be me', has been cancelled after 100 LGBTQ+ groups, including Stonewall, pulled out. 

Resources

How to erase male violence: lessons from a women's facility

Genevieve Gluck writes on the effects of housing male convicts with women. 

'Collateral Damage' - the price of surrogacy

'The invasion of Ukraine reminds us of the cost of surrogacy, and who pays the price.' By Helen Pringle and Renate Klein.
'Feminist backlash is finally building against surrogacy'
Eminent anti-surrogacy campaigner Phyllis Chesler writes in 4W. 
'Joe Biden is bravely standing up for female men in America'
'Brave men stealing women’s positions, spaces, athletic championships, and sanity simply do not get the cred they deserve.' More from Meghan Murphy in Feminist Current. 

'Neither marginalised, abused nor vulnerable'

Madison Smith explains why the 'catechism' so many politicians use to describe those who pretend to be the opposite sex is not true. 

'Breast tax' and modern day trans activism in Kerala

Vaishnavi Sundar writes on the history of the misogynist 'breast tax' and the current misogyny of trans activism in Kerala. 

Events

Women Unsilenced: An Audience with Linda MacDonald and Jeanne Sarson - 26 June 1pm BST

Jeanne Sarson, MEd, BScN and Linda MacDonald, MEd, BN authors of Women Unsilenced and founders of nonstatetorture.org will be discussing their book and findings of the unacknowledged #torture of #women and #girls around the world in this special FiLiA event. Watch the ad and register here. 

Towards the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood - online launch 28 April

Join international activists and experts discuss the abolition of surrogacy and the new book 'Towards the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood', edited by Marie-Josèphe Devillers and Ana-Luana Stoicea-Deram. 28 April, 2-3.30pm BST. Register here. 

Sisters4Sisters - Madison, USA, 22-24 April - THIS WEEKEND!

This April, women will be gathering in Madison, WI in support of Thistle Pettersen and in solidarity with all cancelled women. Thistle has been relentlessly harassed, doxxed and cancelled for her radical feminist, woman-centered views. She is not alone. Women the world over are being fired, silenced, threatened and assaulted for saying NO to the men driving the misogynistic, lesbophobic, homophobic and regressive ideology that is 'gender identity.’ (If you have been considering joining us for a weekend of direct action, discussion, music and solidarity with like-minded women, NOW is the time to commit. Please come to Madison, WI April 22-24 and show the local community and the world that #TheFeministsAreHere and we are fighting back. Register today! Donations to the cause are welcome.

Sovereign Women Speak - Herstory Embodiment Weekend - 3-6 June

This women-only event takes place in Tacoma, Washington, 3-6 June. Details are here - limited tickets remain.