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The next WDI newsletter will be out on Wednesday 8 June because our editor is away on holiday.

WDI legal committee asks UN not to implement report WDI calls on the United Nations Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to take action to protect women and girls globally on the basis of sex, by refraining from approving the "Report on Gender Theory" of the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The Independent expert must give space and consideration to women’s concerns and the potential erosion of women’s rights. Read our full statement.

WDI book - call for articles WDI is writing a book - our working title is ‘The spread of ‘gender identity’ ideology around the world’. We’re looking for proposals for articles on ‘gender identity’ ideology and its effect on women’s rights across the globe. Are you interested in submitting an article? If so, please submit your proposal to our editor, Sally Wainwright. Your proposal should be a paragraph outlining what the article will cover, with a little information about the topic and your background/experience relating to it. We would like to cover a breadth of topics and suggest either an in-depth look at a country, or a focus on a single topic in a wider geographic area would be ideal. You can read more about what we’re looking for on our website. Your proposal must:

  • Relate to the Declaration, for example, looking at the state of sex-based rights and/or gender identity ideology
  • Be up to 2000 words maximum
  • Have a geographic focus (country, continent, political grouping etc.)
  • Be in English (we can help with editing and translation)

Deadlines - please send your proposal to us by 7 June. We will let you know by 11 June if your proposal has been accepted. Final article must be submitted by 17 July.

Police open investigation into WDI Norway country contact - please support Police have opened an investigation into our country contact in Norway for tweeting that men cannot be women. Please support, share and retweet if you can.

Por qué no existen las «feministas cis» Amparo Domingo, of WDI Spain, writes in El Comun.

Sexism on the Left is driving Biden's attacks on Title IX WDI USA president Kara Dansky writes in the Washington Examiner on the Biden administration's attacks on Titlee IX.

WDI Brasil releases requirement on single-sex provisions in hospitals and similar facilities WDI Brasil released a requirement to protect single-sex spaces in hospitals, clinics, first-aid rooms and other health services, public and private, of physical and mental health, to the Ministério Público Federal.

WDI Brasil protocola representação para a garantia dos espaços separados por sexo na área da saúde No dia 4 de abril de 2022, a WDI Brasil protocolou junto ao Ministério Público Federal uma representação a fim de que sejam garantidos os espaços separados por sexo em hospitais, clínicas, ambulatórios e outros serviços, públicos e privados, de saúde física e mental.

WDI Australia sends survey to political candidates WDI Australia has sent out a survey with nine questions on women's rights to political candidates. Local coverage of the story mischaracterised the survey as 'anti-trans'.

New WDI Japan page available We have a new country page for Japan which has the latest update on 'gender identity' ideology.

WDI Feminist Question Time (FQT) takes place on Saturdays at 15.00 UK time. This week, 21 May, we have:
Mónica Alario Gavilán, Spain, discussing her new book: “Pornografía: una escuela de violencia sexual”
Lauren Adams, USA, Fighting for Single-Sex Prisons in the U.S.
Malaleche, Mexico, Frente Feminist Radical, new forms of misogynist violence. Register here.

WDI Radical Feminist Perspectives (RFP) takes place on Sundays at 10.00 UK time. This week, 22 May, we are discussing Catherine MacKinnon on rape, with Helen Pringle and Kara Dansky. Register here.

Campaigns

WDI Mexico launches abolitionist campaign

Alianza de Redes Feministas Nacionales, along with WDI-México, launched the abolitionist campaign Vindicaciones Feministas (Feminist Vindications) to analyze main sex-based oppression systems against women and girls.

Monthly meetings with national and international speakers shall take place from May until September; they will begin on May 21st and 22nd talking about the eradication of the different types of violence against women and girls, and femicide.
In June, the topics will be sex trade eradication, prostitution, and pornography. In July, Trans Children and Surrogacy.

In August, gender abolition, genderism and the erasure of women will be discussed; finally, in September, it will finalize with the proposals and demands that are made during the previous meetings to present an Abolitionist Manifesto.
The sessions will be broadcasted in the WDI-México’s Facebook page. Further information regarding this will be available in all WDI-México social platforms.

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WDI-México y la Alianza de Redes Feministas Nacionales lanzan la campaña abolicionista “Vindicaciones Feministas” con el fin de analizar los principales sistemas de opresión contra las mujeres y las niñas por razón de su sexo.

De mayo a septiembre se realizarán jornadas mensuales con ponentes nacionales e internacionales iniciando este 20 y 21 de mayo con los temas Erradicación de las violencias contra las mujeres y niñas y Feminicidio. En junio se hablará sobre la Erradicación de la trata, la prostitución y la pornografía; en julio los temas son Infancias Trans y Vientres de Alquiler;

en agosto serán las jornadas sobre Abolición del género, generismo y borrado de las mujeres para cerrar en septiembre con las propuestas y exigencias surgidas de las jornadas previas y presentar un Manifiesto Abolicionista.
Las jornadas se podrán ver en la página de FB de WDI-México. Toda la información estará en las redes sociales de WDI-México.

Sex-based rights around the world

Masked men blockade suffragette statue

Masked men dressed in black blocked women's access to a statue of Emmeline Pankhurst at a Standing for Women event in Manchester.

German kids' TV show under fire for promoting self-ID

Popular German kids' TV show criticised after featuring a man who claims a female 'gender identity' telling children that being a woman involved wearing skirts and walking in high heels. WDI Germany is quoted in this article. Read more on Reduxx.

Trans activists threaten to burn book shop in Barcelona

Feminists in Barcelona who organised a presentation of 'Nadie Nace En Un Cuerpo Equivocado' (Nobody is born in the wrong body) had to be evacuated from the book shop by police after violent trans activists appeared and threatened to burn it down. 

Japanese literary figure writes book on 'gender ideology' and faces cancellation

For the first time in Japanese literature, Ms Shono Yoriko has denounced the dangers of gender identity as well as the damage caused by the cancel culture she had suffered. The book she wrote, which was recently published, is called 'Shono Yoriko's Banned Novels'. Read WDI's statement in support of Ms Shono. 

Indian surgeon announces plans for womb transplants for men

A surgeon in India has announced he plans to transplant a womb into a man and is 'very optimistic' about the prospects of success. 

Allison Bailey tribunal demonstrates male dominance tactics

Lesbian barrister and LGB Alliance joint founder Allison Bailey's experience in the employment tribunal in England shows male dominance tactics in action. 

Resources

Resist Gender Education - new group launches in NZ

Resist Gender Education, a new group of educators in New Zealand, has launched. Visit their site for information on the promotion of 'gender identity' ideology in NZ schools. 

Rape crisis centers have sold out women

'If the feminist movement could be said to have a home, it’s surely within the walls of each rape crisis center. Born of grassroots organizing in the 1970s and 80s, the idea of allowing survivors to open up about male violence in a women-only space was, and remains, a revolutionary idea. But today, the success of rape crisis centers is marked in outcome boxes ticked and measured by the funding secured. Many second-wave feminists who built the original centers have watched in horror as third sector professionals have moved in and attempted to sever the link with the women’s liberation movement.' Read more from Jo Bartosch in 4W. 

Inventing the Indian 'transgender child'

'Instead of focusing on AIDS prevention, why is UNAIDS turning prepubescent, nonconforming children into ‘trans'?' Read more from Vaishnavi Sundar. 

New academic field dismantles child safeguarding

Read Dana Vitalasova's investigation into critical childhood studies in 4W. 

The White House’s Specious Gender Manifesto

'The White House is claiming that the debate about childhood gender medicine is settled—even as numerous international experts are coming forward to say it‘s not.' Bernard Lane writes in Quillette. 

Events

Surrogacy: The Harms and the Humans - OBJECT - 28 May 2022

This conference will explore surrogacy from a radical feminist viewpoint, looking past the glamorised and sanitised portrayals on social media and TV, to the realities of surrogacy: the women involved, the children born and sold. Tickets available here.