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NGOCSW66 - WDI speeches

Download transcripts and find video links for WDI speeches from our NGOCSW66 event last week on our website. 

Por qué no existen las llamadas «TERF» - WDI Spain

Es costumbre del Patriarcado producir insultos para las mujeres díscolas que no obedecen los mandatos del género, entendido éste de la única manera posible: como jerarquía social impuesta entre hombres y mujeres, en la que la mujer sólo tiene como opción someterse y callar. Amparo Domingo escribe en elComun.es.

Why there are no so-called TERFs - WDI Spain

'It is the custom of the Patriarchy to produce insults for unruly women who do not obey the mandates of gender, understood in the only possible way: as a social hierarchy imposed between men and women, in which women only have the option of submitting and being silent.' Amparo Domingo writes in elComun.es. 

German Green Party women's conference centres a man

WDI Germany reports on the German Green Party women's conference which features a man pretending to be a woman as its star speaker. More on the story from Genevieve Gluck in Reduxx. 

WDI Feminist Question Time (FQT) takes place on Saturdays at 15.00 UK time. This week, 2 April, we are discussing journalism and the challenges of reporting on gender ideology. Speakers include Genevieve Gluck, USA, on porn, Women's Voices and the new Reduxx, Lynne Harne, UK, on the new Positively Lesbian project for young lesbians and Ananda Castano, Spain, on organising lesbian feminism in Spain: obstacles and progress. Register here. 

WDI Radical Feminist Perspectives (RFP) takes place on Sundays at 10.00 UK time. This week, 3 April, we are discussing The Sexual Contract by Carole Pateman with Caroline Norma and Jo Brew. Register here.

Campaigns

WRN writes to UN Global Alliance of National Human Right Institutions

The UK's Women's Rights Network has written an open letter to the subcommittee on accreditation of the UN Global Alliance of National Human Right Institutions in support of the EHRC and to express concern about recent attempts to undermine its credibility. Add your name. 

Sex-based rights around the world

Taliban u-turn on girls' education

The Taliban issued orders to close girls' secondary schools only hours after they had reopened last week.  

German trans 'sex work' organisation targets refugees

A trans prostitution advocacy group in Germany is targeting female Ukrainian refugees through social media. The BBC reports on trafficking dangers for women and children at the Polish boarder.

Mother accuses LA county of killing her daughter

A California mother has accused an LA county school, social workers and an LGBT group of being responsible for the suicide of her daughter.

Man wins election in female ward

Bombay High Court allowed a male who goes by the name Anjali to contest village panchayat (town council) polls as 'female' from a ward reserved for women, saying that such persons have the right to a 'self perceived gender identity.' He went on to win the election.

Angry mob protest against women's rights

A Woman's Place UK event in Manchester was picketed by a hostile mob shouting threatening derogatory slogans while women inside discussed FGM, single-sex spaces and women's sports. 

Founder of app for women receives human rights complaint

Sall Grover, founder of the Giggle social networking app for women, has received a complaint from the Australian Human Rights Commission and been told she must allow men to use her app and undergo 'education'. 

Student 'sex worker' toolkit funding pulled

A toolkit for student 'sex workers' that was being created by the University of Leicester in the UK has had its public funding removed. Report from Nordic Model Now!

Stonewall advises British Library on how to deal with women

Stonewall has provided 'training' to the British Library on how to deal with women who believe that sex is real. 

1st grade children given 'gender identity' instruction

1st grade school children in a school in Seattle have been told that they can be girls or boys or neither.


Resources

Interview with former women's corrections officer

Sovereign Women Speak interviewed a former women's corrections officer on the realities of life for incarcerated women now having to live with male sex offenders. 

'Shiori Ito's Long Road to Justice'

The struggle to combat male sexual violence in Japan - by Genevieve Gluck.

Male sex offender paved way for men in UK women's prisons

A convicted male sex offender and killer paved the way for intact men to be admitted to women's prisons in the UK. 

Supporting sex-based rights at school - a mother and daughter's story

WEP Sex-Based Rights Caucus Mother's Day blog discusses the bullying of a girl who supports women's sex-based rights from her perspective and her mother's. 

Analysis of interim Cass report from Safe Schools Alliance

Safeguarding specialist Safe Schools Alliance has published analysis of the interim report from the Cass review into gender services for children in the UK. 

Interview with Jasmine Sussex, formerly of the Australian Breastfeeding Association

Rita Panahi of Sky News Australia interviews Jasmine Sussex, who was fired from the Australian Breastfeeding Association for saying men could not breastfeed. 

'Lia Thomas wants respect? Well so do women.'

Read Jeanna Hoch's essay in Feminist Current. 

The dangers of decriminalising prostitution

'Prostitution is not work, and every attempt to legitimise the inside of a woman’s body as a workplace has failed.' Julie Bindel on the ICA's exhibition calling for the decriminalisation of prostitution. 

Events

Sisters4Sisters - Madison, USA, 22-24 April

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.