"it is almost entirely women who are leading and enabling it"

I've worked in the charitable sector for years and it's a sector almost entirely full of women workers and run by women. Used to have a strong old fashioned feminist sensibility. This was a big reason I chose to work there.

Over past 5-10 years I have seen this sector which works with the most vulnerable people totally consumed by gender ideology with no debate. Everyone is expected to introduce themselves with their pronouns, every website has to show a transactivist flag, every program or presentation meant for women has to be for "gender diverse" people too or "for anyone who identifies as a woman". (For heaven's sake, I got invited to a boring old session on building women's financial literacy which anxiously promoted itself as being for "trans and gender diverse people" too - is there not enough female poverty to be going on with?)

There seems to be an unspoken fear that doing or even saying anything that's just about women is morally wrong and makes you a wicked person ("exclusive"). Incredibly distressing seeing otherwise good charities actively pushing gender ideology at their clients, especially kids. (Check out websites of youth mental health charities some time.) And many clients too confused or unconfident to question it.

Hardest thing for me is coming to terms with the fact that however patriarchal this ideology is, here it is almost entirely women who are leading and enabling it. In my experience, mostly women from the upper management or else very ambitious (and very indoctrinated) young professional women. Lower level workers and clients just have to cop it.

#australia #charities #decisionmaking #policy #genderidentityideology #ideologicalcapture #missionariesintheworkplace #womensinhumanitytowomen #femaleErasure #freespeech

melbourne park to offer "female friendly change rooms"

"We’re upgrading Sumner Park pavilion to make it more accessible for the broader community. Plans include the construction of 4 female friendly change rooms and accessible amenities."

Back in the good old days a council may have provided male and female change facilities.

Now they are being labelled as “female friendly” change facilities.

What does that mean? Why the tricky language? The answer lies in the preamble about the changes being done to make change facilities more accessible to the broader community.

Single-sex spaces being removed and no one will notice under all the nice talk about friendliness.

#australia #melbourne #brunswickeast #sumnerpark #mixedsexchangerooms #singlesexspaces

young women self-silencing

I have spoken a little with my daughter about my views on, for example, a male person running a rape crisis centre and refusing to allow women to choose a female staff member, or about women being forced to share cells with male rapists in prison.

At first she shouted me down and basically told me that I must not speak these thoughts out loud. Tonight, she and a friend told me they agree with everything I said, but they would be too afraid to say it out loud. You cannot say these things, they said.

Things are becoming dystopian. These young women believe that the world is going mad, just as older women do, but are too afraid to speak because of the power of the male trans bullies. They are angry and sad that these people can't understand women's point of view.

#unitedkingdom #mothersanddaughters #silencing #selfsilencing #freespeech #selfID #singlesexspaces