Written By:
weka - Date published:
10:57 am, May 16th, 2024 - 1 comment
Categories: feminism, gender critical feminism, sexism, uncategorized -
Tags: detrans, gender conservative, gender critical, inflection point
A 4 minute video where a young lesbian woman talks about what puberty blockers and testosterone did to her body and sexuality as a teen. Essential viewing for anyone with an opinion about sex, gender and the transitioning of children and young people. It is not unusual to hear stories about the harms of transitioning from detransitioners, but their voices are often sidelined or minimised.
By the way, that whole thing playing out in New Zealand over Inflection Point wanting to hire a Wellington City Council venue to run a panel of speakers challenging gender ideology, it’s important to understand the difference between gender critical and gender conservative.
People like Brian Tamaki and Bob McCroskie are gender conservative. Their objections to LGBTQI+ are based in wanting to retain a rigid gender binary based on biological sex with specific, separate roles for men and women.
Gender critical feminists critique gender identity ideology on the basis that patriarchal enforced gender roles and stereotypes harm women and children, and also men.
The gender critical movement started with left wing feminists, but is now broadened out to cover a wide range of positions and views. When you look at Inspection Point’s speakers, see if you can tell which are gender critical and which are gender conservative.
Gender critical vs gender conservative makes for strange bedfellows alright. Just looking at the speakers page and there's Jan Rivers in between Bob McCroskie and Brian Tamaki! I'd say every single person attending this is going to hear at least one thing they vehemently disagree with – which is by no means a bad thing.