Tag: women’s rights
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Many a mickle…
This is the second of the occasional ‘timesavers’ series I promised I’d write because after the Supreme Court ruling clarifying the categories of protected characteristics in the 2010 Equality Act, all the old myths were going around again and, like many women I know, I didn’t really want have to constantly repeat all the same…
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Over to you men!
***Guest post by Paula Boulton*** Over to you now men! We women are exhausted. We’re handing over the baton to you. Here’s to broadening the bandwidth of manhood to include those who present as female. After all, they are your brothers and fathers and sons and uncles too! And can we now acknowledge that those…
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Scurrilous sex scams
I am appalled by the dramatic nonsense being bandied around over this week’s judicial review about the Equality Act. It’s not just the gender ideology cultists, although they are out there spouting turbo-charged nonsense. It’s those MPs, journos and high-profile commentators who still, incredibly, write, speak and tweet on this topic with no regard for…
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Debate is unpleasant?
Well, it can certainly be challenging. Ever since FB started religiously removing anything telling that I tried to contribute to the worldwide effort to stop a genocide, I’ve been wondering what exactly these community standards are that I apparently keep going against. I read everything I could find and nowhere did I see anything that…
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We keep winning, why haven’t we won?
This is for all those councillors, MPs, TU reps and organization heads who think women’s rights is a minority interest. The accurate answer to ‘transwomen are women’ is ‘no, women are women. Transwomen are transwomen‘. Unfortunately, the people running all our councils and government departments and big organizations hardly ever hear the right answer, so…
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Listen, question, test
This idea is so important I have given it one of those fashionable three-word slogans to help me remember it. It’s unlikely you’ll agree with every statement I’m going to make in this article. If you’re the kind of person who needs trigger warnings to protect you from the trauma of being disagreed with, please…
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What do Rosie Duffield and J K Rowling have in common?
They’re both well known, one extremely well off and the other at least comfortably secure. They both have ways of making themselves heard, and they also, according to those on the left, have allegiances to the wrong kind of Labour Party members. Duffield and Rowling both recently spoke up about their worries over women’s rights…
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That horrible anti-transgender campaign
Why on earth would anyone be so mean as to campaign against transgender rights? The notion of a socialist doing so is especially absurd. No wonder people are angry!
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An appeal to the Sisterhood
How do we talk feminism and raise Women’s issues in the Labour movement?
Kay Green 