More like Anti-feminist

Sally Hines founded a thing called the Feminist Gender Equality Network, aka FGEN.

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The Feminist Gender Equality Network (FGEN) is a cross-sector, interdisciplinary international organisation that adopts an intersectional feminist framework in order to:

1. advance the understanding of gender and sex as fluid categories

What’s feminist about that though? If gender and sex are fluid categories, how can feminism exist? What does it mean? What is it for?

2. protect the rights and needs of people of all (or no) gender

Then why call it feminism? Why not call it peopleism? If it’s for people of all or no gender (what that means is a question for another paragraph, or another day) then why name it after women? Why claim to be both feminist and all-peopleist? Why not just drop the feminism instead of including it and then declaring it meaningless? Why not skip the middle part and just go straight to the no feminism?

3. counter transphobia and transmisogyny in social life and institutions, legal structures, political movements and media and cultural representation

Then why call it feminism? Why not call it transism? Why call it feminism and then talk about “transmisogyny” with no mention of misogyny itself? Transmisogyny, weirdly, refers to non-belief that men can become women, which is an abuse of meaning because it has nothing to do with misogyny.

4. counter sexism and gender-based violence and discrimination

Finally something recognizable as vaguely feminist, but given the three that precede it it seems very feeble and perfunctory. Anyway you’re queering gender so what is gender-based violence? And which gender do you have in mind?

5. further intersectional understanding and political mobilisation to stress the relationship between gender marginalisation and other social inequalities

Or, in your case, probably more like put every other social inequality you can think of ahead of “gender marginalisation” – which is anyway a feeble and deceptive way to talk about abuse of women.

6. forward self and bodily autonomy and reproductive choice and rights

And by “bodily autonomy” you mean freedom to try to disguise oneself as the other sex, and you place that ahead of abortion rights, as if it were more urgent and important.

What a destructive fool Sally Hines is.

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