News from the fens:

Three Cambridge University students have today launched the Cambridge University Society of Women (CUSW) with the ambition to “advocate for and raise awareness of women’s sex-based issues across the political spectrum and around the world, as well as provide a single-sex environment for women to discuss the issues that concern us most as women in the absence of men”

The CUSW’s constitution defines women as “adult human beings belonging to the female sex class”. In doing so, the founders – Thea Sewell, Maeve Halligan and Serena Worley (pictured) – believe they are the only student society at Cambridge University serving the interests and needs of biological women and biological women only.

Yes!! Let’s hope they’re the first of many.

The driving force behind the CUSW is 22 year old Maeve Halligan. Maeve is at Lucy Cavendish College, studying for an MPhil after graduating from Bristol University earlier this year with a first in French and Russian. Maeve has never been persuaded by gender ideology, but was shocked at the extent to which it saturated her university experience.

“The humanities section of universities are unequivocally captured by this stuff. It’s everything. It’s everywhere. I remember day one, I turn up and I’m handed a rainbow lanyard. It’s that casual. It’s on every noticeboard – something like: Are you feeling gender distress? Or posters of trans flags with slogans saying: My existence is not a threat. What are you scared of?“

Maeve’s views are straightforward: “I see the trans agenda as a form of propaganda and I know propaganda when I see it. The flags everywhere. The pronoun badges. Transgender ideology is the most regressive, homophobic, sexist, crucially misogynistic thing to exist, in a very, very long time.”

Or ever, really. It’s sui generis. The parody-level hijacking of feminism couldn’t exist without feminism, and feminism has been mainstream for only a few decades.

The CUSW’s Declaration of Purpose and Intent states an aim to challenge: “the predominant narratives surrounding sex and gender at our university. We want to represent and discuss how the idea of biological sex being changeable, arbitrary, exclusionary or ‘falsely assigned’ is regressive and directly erodes women’s sex-based rights. In doing so, we aim to open up conversation surrounding numerous other ongoing social and political debates, especially those that pertain to women.”

I love them already.