Summary
Hampstead Heath Ladies Pond . Its not about women. It is about a trophy. The attempt by the gender-critical ideology movement to exclude trans women from using the ladies pond, despite the fact most women users support their inclusion.
HAMPSTEAD HEATH LADIES POND – “It’s not about women. It’s about a trophy”
These are not my words, but those of a cisgender woman who regularly swims at the pond and is utterly disgusted by a tiny minority of women who are transphobic and use the word “woman” as their weapon and shield.
As CEO of TransLucent, I want to make it very clear that all the time I am in tenure, we will fight transphobia on the streets, in parliament and in the courts.
As an organisation, we announced our intention with yesterday’s statement that TransLucent had intervened in a high-profile legal case. I appreciate that many were surprised by our intervention, but obviously, we can’t always “flag” what we are doing.
It was Nicola Sturgeon who once said the gender critical was “using women’s rights as a cloak of acceptability for transphobia“. As time passes, this becomes increasingly evident every day.
The voices of women who reject transphobia are not being heard; meanwhile, the likes of LBC, GB News, TalkTV, The Times, The Telegraph and Mail are happily promoting transphobia.
Clickbait.
I take pride in being a feminist, fighting for women’s rights and trying to make “peace” with those who are so vocal.
I have reached out to nearly every gender-critical organisation and attempted to schedule a meeting. Only one ever replied, the now-defunct Women’s Place UK.
I tried desperately to save the Labour Party Women’s Conference this year. The fact is, 1500 women have been denied their conference because one gender-critical organisation was threatening to take the Labour Party to court if trans women were allowed to attend. The organisation concerned did not reply to my emails.
How many trans women were likely to be delegates?
Three.
The battle against discrimination needs to be reframed. It is not women v trans women. It is the gender-critical movement v women.
The transphobic gender-critical ideology movement is a negative force to feminism, because most women are not transphobic and these people are deflecting from the issues that matter to women, that of healthcare, violence against women and girls, and the pay gap, to name just three.
The voices of 1,500 women delegates at the Labour Party Women’s Conference were not heard.
The voices of the 42,150 women who have signed the “Not In Our Name” letter say the gender-critical do not speak for them.
I will fight discrimination while supporting the need for single-sex spaces as required.
The Labour Party Womens Conference and Hampstead Heath Ladies Pond are two examples of transphobia.
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Thank you.
Authored by Steph – TransLucent CEO.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/working-for-the-trans-and-gender-diverse-community
