Women who speak up
This is good!
If you don’t have 9 minutes to spare, start at 2 minutes.
At 4 minutes he cites the work of Jane Clare Jones.
Tip Jar
This is good!
If you don’t have 9 minutes to spare, start at 2 minutes.
At 4 minutes he cites the work of Jane Clare Jones.
Excellent!
Just watched this. Fantastic.
I enjoyed that very much. We need more like him to stand up…say what is happening…and call it bullshit.
Excellent!
A heavyweight joins the fray:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nllnlNaDsjI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Winston
@ Holms, I found a Telegraph article from 2017 pushing back against so called “trans health care” and the impact on fertility he was seeing at fertility clinics. It would be good if he’d raise his voice more, given his profile.
I understand that Tanni Grey Thompson has written up about this as well, but I can’t seem to find it right now. I saw the gist paraphrased along the lines of “people have tried to discount and ignore and erase me my whole life for being a woman and for being disabled and I’m not standing for it” which is an excellent sentiment.
Tanni is my favourite of all the baronesses: she’s a wheelchair user (like me), the most successful paralympian so far (very much unlike me) and she lives about five minutes away from me. She has a pretty good record on calling out misogyny.
A barely-related anecdote I was reminded of when I was searching for what she wrote about the bill: when she was pregnant, a lot of people asked her how she became pregnant. Her answer “um…. I had sex…” tended to confuse and/or disgust people. Ugh to that and ugh to the now familiar entitlement able-bodied people have to ask questions like that. I’ve only been in the chair for about a year and most of that has been in lockdown, but I’ve still had two strangers ask pretty invasive questions out of the blue. I don’t mind answering the questions at all, but that entitlement is jarring.
Someone also tried to wheel me out of the way in a supermarket once, so they could get to the cabbages. Apparently this is quite common. It didn’t work out well for the woman in question for several reasons, beginning with the fact that I had my brakes on.