what’s at stake for women with the new legislation on “gender identity”? · 2021. 2. 20. ·...
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What’s at stake for women with the new
legislation on “gender identity”?
If we lose the definition of “woman”, we lose everything.
Updated July 2020
The concept of “gender identity” distorts information, which is a basic tool for the analysis and follow up of policies and strategies that support the advancement of women and girls in different areas.
TROJAN HORSE IN FEMINISMEvery feminist familiarised with the concepts “gender-based violence”, “wage gap”, “glass ceiling”, “feminisation of poverty”, “quotas”, “parity”, etc. will realise that it is necessary to keep sex segregated statistics if we want to be able to monitor progresses or relapses on female equality in our societies.
If we deny the reality of sex, we deny women’s sex-based oppression.
PROPOSALS OF LEGISLATION IN SPAIN
http://www.congreso.es/public_oficiales/L12/CONG/BOCG/B/BOCG-12-B-220-1.PDF“Proposal for a Bill
on the legal protection of trans people and the right to self-determination of sexual
identity and gender expression”
Bill 3/2007, on the regulation of the registry amendment of the mention relating to the sex of persons:
● Spanish nationality, of legal age and capacity ("capacidad de obrar").
● Medical certificate for the diagnosis of gender dysphoria.
● Absence of personality disorders that could have a determining influence on the diagnosed dysphoria.
● Two-year medical treatment to accommodate the physical characteristics of the "claimed sex".
● Though genital surgery is not required.
CURRENT LEGISLATION
Proposal for a Bill on the legal protection of trans people and the right to self-determination of sexual identity and gender expression:● Self-determination of "sexual identity
and gender expression".● With full legal force in all areas.● No physical changes needed (none).● Without any limitation on the basis of
age, sex, marital status, functional or psychological diversity, sexual orientation, socio-cultural or political-administrative situation or any other personal condition.
● Free access without any screening or scrutiny to all spaces previously segregated by sex.
PROPOSAL
WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
ForoCoches.com“What are the chances of defrauding the authorities and
changing my gender from male to ‘lesbian woman’ without changing my physical appearance?”
Libremercado.comhttps://www.libremercado.com/2019-04-13/autopercibirse-mujer-estrategia-legal-que-utilizan-hombres-para-evitar-discriminacion-legal-violencia-de-genero-1276636376/
Libremercado.com belongs to Libertad Digital, S.A., a media company whose founders (Federico Jiménez Losantos) and opinion writers (César Vidal, Pío Moa, etc.) express far right wing ideas.
Self-identification as women, the path men are starting to take in order not to be
discriminated against
"I feel like a woman and I have to be judged as such." The new strategy that is beginning to take hold in Spain to
avoid being tried as a man.
Confilegal.comhttps://confilegal.com/20190616-como-evitar-ser-acusado-en-un-juzgado-de-violencia-sobre-la-mujer/
The author of this article is a lawyer specialised in Family Law, who also authored a book on Parental alienation syndrome (PAS).
How to avoid being prosecuted in a Court on Violence Against Women
“But the regional laws have gone further, and mention ‘gender identity’, that is when a person perceives themselves as having another sex or sexual orientation.
This right allows any man to identify himself as a woman at any time, for instance, when he is reported by his partner, or at the time of his arrest.
INTERNATIONAL SITUATION
Sports
SportsIn 2015, the International Olympic Committee adopted new guidelines allowing trans identified males to compete in women's sports by simply reducing their testosterone over a 12-month period.
https://stillmed.olympic.org/Documents/Commissions_PDFfiles/Medical_commission/2015-11_ioc_consensus_meeting_on_sex_reassignment_and_hyperandrogenism-en.pdf
SportsNEW ZEALAND
https://www.euronews.com/2019/07/30/weightlifter-hubbard-becomes-lightning-rod-for-criticism-of-transgender-policy
PACIFIC GAMES, JULY 2019
SportsUNITED STATES
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/22/rachel-mckinnon-trans-cyclist-wins-gold-blasts-cri/
Veronica Ivy, formerly known as Rachel McKinnon, at the left side of the picture.
Strange statement, since “facts” are the visible benefits of having experienced male puberty.
SportsAUSTRALIA
Hannah Mouncey.
Trans identified male plays rugby for the female national team
Crime & statistics
Crime & statisticsUNITED KINGDOM
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/more-women-convicted-of-sex-offences-bfdvv2w37
The Times, March 7, 2018.
Crime & statisticsUNITED KINGDOM
https://www.cps.gov.uk/publication/cps-policy-prosecuting-cases-rape
Definition of Rape according to The Crown Prosecution Service.
Snapshot taken on July 31, 2020.
Crime & statisticsUNITED KINGDOM
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/scotland/letting-criminals-self-identify-gender-putting-women-at-risk-8560wzkqt
The Times, March 14, 2019.
Crime & statisticsUNITED KINGDOM
https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/crime/sheffield-woman-found-over-1000-indecent-images-children-hauled-court-477960
The Star, July 19, 2019.
CANADA
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/02/14/criminals-should-not-be-allowed-to-choose-their-gender/
In Canada, Bill C-16 allows self-ID.
Crime & statistics
Crime & statisticsCANADA
https://quillette.com/2019/10/12/male-bodied-rapists-are-being-imprisoned-with-women-why-do-so-few-people-care/
April Halley is a feminist activist who blogs at aprilhalley.com.
She investigates and writes about the impact of gender-identity policies on women and children in Canada.
Other sex segregated spaces
SheltersCANADA
https://www.womenarehuman.com/male-transgender-boasts-of-harassing-women-in-crisis-shelter/
Quotas & parity
Quotas & parityUNITED KINGDOM
https://twitter.com/AbsMcFabs/status/1065001817556377600
https://talkradio.co.uk/news/monzo-customers-threaten-leave-bank-over-transgender-policy-18112628958
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/519620/women_in_finance_charter.pdf
Quotas & parityUNITED STATES
https://4w.pub/male-politicians-quietly-eliminated-gender-parity-in-ny-democratic-state-committee/
https://thevelvetchronicle.com/ny-democrats-quietly-dismantle-1-male-1-female-rule/
Quotas & parityUNITED STATES
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VrACFgidOE4bXZ_3wEWicpKfKPBJOzSHTBtwNuIjAFo/edit
Screenshot of the new rules for the New York State Committee.
In red colour, the ruled out text. In green colour, the new rules.
Quotas & parityUNITED STATES
Emilia Decaudin
Quotas & parityUNITED STATES
Emilia Decaudin (left) with Jay Jacobs (right), Chair of the New York State Democratic Committee.
With the new rules, Emilia could be Vice Chair according to the new idea of “parity”: Emilia and Jay “do not identify as the same gender”.
Quotas & parityUNITED STATES
JUNE 2020. UPDATE
https://4w.pub/male-wins-female-leadership-position-in-nyc-dem-council/
Two males represent the 37A District: Emilia Decaudin & Jesse Laymon
Censorship / harassment of lesbians
Censorship / harassment of lesbiansUNITED KINGDOM
Get the L Out demonstrated at London Pride to defend the definition of “lesbian” as “female homosexual”, which caused them being vilified and accused of being “anti-trans” (July 2018).
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/anti-trans-protest-london-pride-parade-lgbt-gay-2018-march-lesbian-gay-rights-a8436506.html
Censorship / harassment of lesbiansCANADA
https://www.feministcurrent.com/2018/08/13/lesbians-excluded-vancouver-dyke-march-name-inclusivity/
After the event, The Lesbians Collective was labelled a “hate group” by the Vancouver Dyke March (August 2018).
The Lesbians Collective at the 2018 Vancouver Dyke March.
Censorship / harassment of lesbians
Censorship / harassment of lesbiansUNITED KINGDOM
Lesbians were accused of creating insecurity for trans people for defending a sex-based definition of “lesbian” at Manchester Pride (August 2019).
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/26/anti-trans-protestors-march-in-front-of-manchester-pride-parade-leaving-trans-women-worried-about-safety/
Glass ceiling
Glass ceilingUNITED STATES
https://www.forbes.com/profile/martine-rothblatt/
Glass ceilingUNITED KINGDOM
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anger-over-women-s-business-honour-for-cross-dressing-banker-h0gv3l7nw
A male Credit Suisse director who sometimes goes to work in a wig and dress has prompted outrage by accepting a place on a list of the Top 100 Women in Business (#32).
Funding
Lobbieshttps://www.feministcurrent.com/2017/10/02/pact-trans-rights-advocates-sex-trade-lobby/
FundingUNITED STATES (GLOBAL REACH)
https://4thwavenow.com/2018/05/25/the-open-society-foundations-the-transgender-movement/
Michael Biggs is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St Cross College. He researches social movements and collective protest.
Three American billionaires have bankrolled the transgender movement on a global scale:
Jennifer Pritzker, Jon Stryker & George Soros.
“TERFs” & “SWERFs”
TERF & SWERF
Demonstrations against feministshttps://twitter.com/Tarnjitkparmar/status/1083584168280424448
“Transwomen are women, sex work is work”.
Slogan chanted by demonstrators against Meghan Murphy’s talk at the Vancouver Public Library, on January 10, 2019.
Demonstrations against feminists
Guillotine for TERFs & SWERFs.
SPAINMarch 2020
Attacks & threats against the abolitionist movement in Madrid, March 8
No abolitionist will keep her
head. We’re coming for you.
SPAINhttps://twitter.com/TwitterEspana/status/1236207458256695297
The official Twitter Spain account published last March 8th a short video with Juani Bermejo-Vega (a trans identified male), to celebrate International Women's Day, with the hashtag #TodasLasMujeres [#AllWomen].
“I am a woman, I am trans, I’m queer, & I’m also a female quantum computer scientist at University of Granada.”
SPAINhttps://www.twitter.com/FELGTB/status/1244951013590798337
"Does being trans mean compulsory transition? Alex tells us that #trans people are a diverse reality and that, whether or not we make the transition of our bodies, we need to be recognized for what we are, for our perceived identity".
Alex claims to be “a woman, mother of 4”.
Social media campaign led by the FELGTB, the largest LGBT organisation in Spain, on March 31, 2020, "Trans Visibility Day".
FELGTB has consultative status at the UN.“I am a woman”
FEMINIST POSITION
Feminism rejects gender roles
https://thenewbacklash.blogspot.com/p/appendix-memes.html
Feminist answer to legislative changes:
DECLARATION ON WOMEN’S SEX-BASED RIGHTS
(WOMEN’S DECLARATION)
Women’s DeclarationWomen's Human Rights Campaign (WHRC) is a group of volunteer women from across the globe dedicated to protecting women's sex-based rights.
The Declaration on Women's Sex Based Rights was created by the founders of WHRC to lobby nations to maintain language protecting women and girls on the basis of sex rather than "gender" or "gender identity".
https://www.womensdeclaration.com
The Declaration on Women's Sex-Based Rights seeks to oppose the changes being made in the national laws of many countries, following the development of the so-called Yogyakarta Principles (named after the Indonesian city where they were signed in 2007), which replace "sex" by “gender” as a category to be protected by law.
This unfortunate confusion has been the legal basis for implementing the postulates of the "gender identity" doctrine in regulations that are proving so harmful to women and girls in different countries.
In 2018, Sheila Jeffreys wrote a critical feminist analysis of the Yogyakarta Principles, as a reaction to the legislative changes proposed in the United Kingdom to implement "gender self-identification" ("Self-ID").
The Declaration outlines current international laws and policies on women’s rights and how they are being threatened by organisations that are trying to change the definition of woman.
Women’s Declarationhttps://www.womensdeclaration.com
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INDIVIDUALLY AND/OR ON BEHALF OF YOUR ORGANISATION,
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Women’s rights, set out in the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and subsequent international agreements, are based on our sex, defined by the UN as “the physical and biological characteristics that distinguish malesfrom females”.
The Declaration on Women’s Sex Based Rights is a statement on the importance of keeping the current sex based definition of woman.
Many women’s rights are related to our biologically female bodies e.g. the right to abortion, and maternal rights. Other women’s rights are aimed at eliminating discrimination against women in public life e.g. women’s rights to education, political representation, work, equal pay. Further women’s rights are to protect us against violence or harmful practices e.g. rape, and FGM.
In recent years some governments have been substituting “gender identity” for biological sex in law and policy, and including men who say they have a female “gender identity” in the word “woman”.
This enables these men to access spaces and services set up for women and girls. This includes single sex victim support services, single sex sport, women’s shortlists designed to increase women’s participation in political and public life, scholarships and prizes for women, single sex toilets, changing rooms and sleeping areas aimed at protecting the safety, privacy and dignity of women and girls.
Using “gender identity” instead of biological sex threatens maternal rights, women’s right to assemble and organise without including men, and data collection on violence against women and girls.
Furthermore, “gender identity” is being used to “transition” girls who do not conform to sex stereotypes.
Women’s Declarationhttps://www.womensdeclaration.com
↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑SIGN THE DECLARATION ONLINE,
INDIVIDUALLY AND/OR ON BEHALF OF YOUR ORGANISATION,
BY CLICKING ON THE LINK.