Wow, that's somewhat insensitive to women who have experienced female same-sex rape, isn't it? How do you know that doesn't happen? Cis women are perpetrators too. Shouldn't vulnerable trans or cis women be protected from them? Do they share ...
Someone mentioned Jill Abigail above. I'm afraid the fact that she cited a fundamentalist Christian 'detransitioner', Walt Heyer antagonised a lot of lesbians and gay men who oppose conversion therapy precisely because of that. Or don't the lives of ...
Yes, but as you've acknowledged, some cis women do rape other women. It happens. Is it a separate issue, or are there common biographical and psychological markers that could be utilised to prevent cis and trans women perpetrators from vicitimising other ...
It's a massive inferential jump to argue that just because of some cases, an entire category of people should be subjected to potentially harmful discrimination on that basis. Especially when there are alternative explanations available.
Weka, gender dysphoria is a legitimate medical condition that can be remedied through hormonal and surgical treatment. It is legitimate because it is corroborated through cumulative medical and scientific research related to the appropriateness of the ...
Those are indeed serious cases and as perpetrators of violence against other women, they need to be held accountable for their crimes. However, the question is do other cis women also brutalise and sexually assault other women? Given that Aotearoa/New ...
And given that I've raised the question of Georgina, perhaps gender critical feminists might want to explain the overwhelmingly white nature of their movement. I repeat, in what way does a shivering, frightened homeless whakawahine/fa'afafine teenage ...
Can you point to substantive examples of tangible professional practice where this is indeed the case?
What about trans women who are survivors of rape and sexual assault? It's ironic that we're talking about this in the aftermath of Georgina Beyer's death. Georgina herself was a rape survivor, she participated in Take Back the Night marches in Wellington ...
Would you include trans women who have been raped and sexually assaulted in men's prisons in that context, because some gender critical feminists seem to ignore the very real risks posed by gender inappropriate incarceration to those women?
There is the matter of statistical evidence. Don't you think that if trans women were engaged in assault against cis women on a major scale, that would be reflected in law enforcement, mental health and other statistical measurement of offenders? What do ...
Which women? There are numerous feminists and lesbians who oppose gender critical ideology, rhetoric and moral panic tactics. The pro-choice movement doesn't support anti-trans politics, for instance.
As I've pointed out above, sadly, the fact of the matter is that it's cis het guys who are the real and substantive threat to women's health and safety and they don't have to enter spaces like women's changing rooms or toilets to do so. Rape culture exists...
To explain that in more detail- it basically means arguing that groups or individuals you don't like somehow represent a tangible sexual threat to you based on nothing more substantial than folk mythology or anecdote.
There's also the use of alt-right rhetoric like "woke", "mainstream media" and other terms that I am concerned about. For the record, I have a long record of standing in solidarity with feminist activism when it comes to rape, child sexual, lesbian ...
Added to which, as a gay man, I really don't like the rhetorical approach of sexualising existential threats. In our context, it has resulted in the legitimation of homophobic violence, assault and homicide due to mythology about pedophilia, when ...
Weka, the problem with your argument that trans women somehow represent a threat to cis women in particular settings appears to be based primarily on moral panic rhetoric and tactics. If that is the case and there is widespread abuse of such facilities, ...
Weka, the problem with your argument is that you assume that all feminists support gender critical politics. They don't. Certainly the feminists that I have worked alongside within ALRANZ for the last forty years don't. And because of the fraught and ill-...
The other concern that I have from this quarter is the absence of firm evidence that trans women are a real and present danger to cis womens welfare and security in changing rooms, public lavatories and elsewhere. During debate on Canada's federal ...
... of rape and incest in young women's lives. During the eighties... after serial rape of three young women. And one of the...
I am a gay socialist and a long-time member of ALRANZ, the Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand. I support radical feminist initiatives against rape and incest, and I also support transgender equality. This puts me at odds with gender critical ...
... for the Nats, hey, Colin Craig has already been humming and...
And then again, there are some of us who would definitely prefer a 'clean' Labour/Green coalition to one that included Winston, although in practical terms, it has been done overseas: http://www.gaynz.com/articles/publish/31/article_14922.php I find ...
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Couldn't agree more. This is my latest blog on the subject: http://www.gaynz.com/blogs/redqueen/?p=503
Look at this, everyone... 9 Jun 2011 ... Destiny Church has alleged discrimination after it failed to find community partners in its bid to take on work under the Government's ... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10731094 ...
I would've thought three monkeys were more appropriate... Hear no evidence-based data/see no evidence-based data/don't talk about evidence based data ... that corroborates the existence of climate change.
Given that the right's preferred option is supposedly Supplementary Member (SM!), the left can have a lot of fun with this between now and election day. Just imagine (...is into SM) ("Oh, so that explains their social/industrial relations/welfare/[insert ...
As a descendant of an Indian immigrant to NZ shortly after WW1 (and grandad lost his family to the 1918 flu epidemic too), I abhor RWR/NZNF/the Nationalist Workers Party/or whatever it's rebranded itself as this week. Still, it's a tiny wee entity. Can ...
You might also want to have a squizz at the section on 'tax cuts' in Irwin Stelzer's excellent Neoconservatism: A Reader (Atlantic Books, 2003). Although it deals with the US context, it makes some very revealing admissions about 'tax cuts.' Namely that ...
Does the econometric data substantiate his claims of a 'recovery' or is it another piece of media hype from "Spinning Johnny?"
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