This is a great idea
Support gender-critical dissidents inside organisations currently affiliated to Stonewall.
From another subscriber. I think it’s a great idea, please do add any suggestions in the comments on how we might go about it!
I have a suggestion for 2022: Support gender-critical dissidents inside organisations currently affiliated to Stonewall.
For example, the National Trust - 6 million members! - has a "dissenting caucus" which is very unhappy with the "woke" direction taken by NT leaders in recent years. A sub-group representing 6000 members has set up a website to "Restore the Trust" and advance their own candidates for the Governing Council. The issues have been brewing since at least 2017.
This year the volunteers, who keep the NT properties open, spoke up at the annual general meeting on 30th October and attracted huge support. As a member, I voted in favour of the two motions they advanced. We nearly won against the incumbent managers. The volunteers complained (1) that a great number of local expert curators had been sacked in 2021 not necessarily as a result of Covid and (2) that they were being forced to support political campaigns which had nothing to do with the preservation of the NT's heritage assets. Those political campaigns include "Black Lives Matter" (slavery as the source of wealth of past owners) and LGBTQ+ - which I agree is not an obvious campaign for the Trust. The NT has coyly removed the original motions from their website, but you can read about them here. The volunteers object to being forced to display LGBTQ+ banners and wear badges and lanyards, etc.
I happen to know the NT's "Strategic Development and Change Director" as a distant friend of 20+ years. I wrote to her a long e-mail over the Christmas break entitled: "The undue influence of Stonewall on the National Trust: the pernicious cult of "gender" ". I know that she has a PR background, so I realise that she always sides with the Establishment, but she used to be a strong, left-wing feminist. I hope that she remembers that fact occasionally...
( via @STranswidows)
Another idea: At the start of the year editors of e-zines write to their readers "announcing" the trends for the coming year. I wrote back to the Deputy Editor of "The Economist" and Editor of "The World Ahead 2022".
" 2022 will be the Year of the TERF: "Telling Everyone Real Facts". Watch the growing influence of JK Rowling, Maya Forstater, Keira Bell, Professor Alice Sullivan, Helen Joyce, Professor Kathleen Stock, Graham Linehan and many other gender-critical feminists of both sexes. The "gender earthquake" is beginning to be felt: it is causing sexual assaults, loss of careers, bodily mutilation to so many women and girls (and some boys), and "Taliban-like" curtailment of opportunity to women in many different domains. "Gender" is a pernicious cult.
So we now call for the repeal the "Gender" "Recognition" Act 2004 and this call will gather momentum.
Everyone knows that is impossible to change sex.
Conflation of sex and "gender" is a big, blatant lie.
JK Rowling tweeted: “War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. The Penised Individual Who Raped You is a Woman”
Happy New Year 2022!
I noticed a few years ago that staff at a NT shop we’re wearing rainbow lanyards. I thought it was odd, because it wasn’t just one or two people expressing personal beliefs and freedom to choose, but all of them. It looked like something was being imposed & was compulsory. It was obviously a corporate statement.
I’d had some in-depth experience with gender ID issues and had become concerned about the tactics that were beginning to be employed by some campaigners. When I saw all the staff wearing rainbow lanyards I was suspicious about what was going on. I asked about it & was told all front-facing staff had been directed to wear them or go to back room / out of sight work (presumably leaving was another option). There was no choice.
I thought this was an outrage. Imagine if staff were made to wear a religious symbol, or a politically affiliated colour?
Since when has it been ok to demand workers wear insignia or fly flags for organisations / beliefs they do not agree with, support, or believe in? Flags and insignia that represent a movement that threatens their own identity, rights, freedoms, safety, thoughts, speech, work if you don’t comply?
Eh?
I then noticed the same thing was happening across society: artist’s work was being pulled (Jess de Wahls), writers were being targeted (JK Rowling) the BBC were pushing the agenda big time & were affiliated to Stonewall; then I found out that many organisations were affiliated to Stonewall & their ‘No debate’ thought training. This includes includes the Police, the NHS, MI5, the MOJ.... the Labour Party... the Guardian... the list is very, very long, as many of you people already know. Anyone who dissented was a transphobe, right wing; basically evil, unkind, unreasonable. “On the wrong side of history” (or histrionics).
Then they started to take away women’s language. ‘Mother’ was being erased as a definition. ‘Chest feeding’ was to replace ‘Breast feeding’. Women were not pregnant any more; ‘people’ were - yet some trans men ( women) insisted they be called ‘Father’. Their demands were increasingly contradictory & muddled.
Hmm.
Then transwomen (men), - many of them making false claims, or sex offenders - were being put in women’s prisons. Transwomen were being allowed to compete in women’s sport.
This all concerns me. It sounds, looks, smells like the biggest attack on women’s rights in my lifetime. Not only that, it’s an example of compelled speech and enforced compliance. It’s an ideology that cancels critics, is self-defensive, is passive/aggressive; is controlling, bullying, childish. The message is: “You will comply, or else”.
No. I will not comply. I will not bow to such clumsy, inconsiderate thinking.