Gender Essentialists Hate the Olympics
The Olympics are a real persistent problem for gender essentialists.
Politics
gender critical feminism
While the gender/sex culture war rages…
Listen to the detransitioners.
Labour’s Women’s Manifesto
“A re-elected Labour Government will continue its proud tradition of advancing women’s health, employment, and legal rights Spokesperson for Women Jan Tinetti said.”
The Women’s Rights Party
“We are the only political party in New Zealand that puts women first”
UN expert: Allow women and girls to speak on sex, gender and gender identity without intimidation or fear
“I am deeply concerned at the escalation of intimidation and threats against women and girls for expressing their opinions and beliefs regarding their needs and rights based on their sex and/or sexual orientation”
– Reem Alsalem, Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls
Letting women speak in Aotearoa New Zealand
A progressive online space for discussion about the Let Women Speak events this weekend.
She who channels her inner Monroe
A Guest Post on the vexed questions posed by Kellie Jay Keen Minshall, her apparent preparedness to ally with religious fundies and right wing extremists, and the predictable calls from sections of the left for her to be banned from entering/speaking in Australia and NZ.
Women’s Liberation Aotearoa Statement on Let Women Speak events, March 2023
We strenuously oppose far right activists using the events to publicise their reprehensible views as we have seen happen in the UK, the USA and most recently in Melbourne.
Gender recognition: woke-ism or human rights?
This debate is about every teenager, anywhere in the world, questioning their gender and sexual identity. This is about the person who after years of suffering, at some point in their lives decides they wish to identify as having a gender identity different to that of their birth.
Gender Critical Disputes
A selection of essays on the importance of feminism in gender critical debate has been published by UK-based, feminist collective The Radical Notion.
Solidarity and ostracism
The mechanism for ostracism destroys solidarity and has serious implications for the left.
Why is the UK’s only youth gender identity clinic closing, and what does this mean for New Zealand?
The NHS is shutting down its gender identity clinic for children after a damning review found that it failed vulnerable under-18s.
The Kim Hill/Kathleen Stock interview
Kathleen Stock: the professor who lost her career amid toxic gender debate
UK government signals urgent inquiry into overmedicalisation of gender non-conforming children
This is a medical scandal affecting children and teens, and the left is still largely in denial of it.
What is gender?
“When people are arguing about gender, quite often one of them is talking about sex, one of them is talking about social stereotypes, and a third one is talking about gender identity, and they’re all shouting at each other”
Guest post: Whisper to a scream
What can you do when what you say is not what is being heard? This Guest Post by Standardista Molly explores different beliefs about femaleness and transness, and how we talk about these.
Revisiting sports, trans inclusiveness and women’s sex based rights
The UK Sports Council has released new guidance on trans inclusion in sports, including in relation to biological women
Women, the Taliban and sex based rights
What is being done to women in Afghanistan by the Taliban is sex-based oppression.
“We have to talk about sex. It’s important”
British philosophy professor Kathleen Stock being interviewed by Redline’s Daphna Whitmore on gender critical feminism and the sex/gender wars. Also, why being able to debate matters.