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On the surface, it all looks very impressive: a UCSF professor publishing in Pediatrics. Except the article doesn’t come close to supporting its own claims. This is one of the most content-free articles I’ve ever seen published in a medical journal.
All women and children will loose out if feminists don’t work together. We need each other! We don't care about the bullshit and neither should you. Get on with the job! We don't have to like each other. That's irrelevant. Gaining friends is a bonus, not the reason for these groups. Remember this.
The women’s movement is resurgent, yet every day brings more examples of what Phyllis Chesler recognized as “women’s inhumanity to women” — of trashing, smearing and the vicious vanity of small differences. The latest has cleaved along that man-made fault of left and right; a conservative man, Matt Walsh made a film about the threat of transgenderism called ‘What is a Woman?’.
I am disappointed, but not surprised about the Nelson Mail article on the “rainbow backlash” against the CATA conference on the treatment of children and young people presenting with gender dysphoria. It is unfortunately a typical media response to allegations of transphobia, hate and bigotry made by “trans” allies who claim to speak for the rainbow community. Well, I’m a lesbian and part of this community, and they certainly don’t speak for me or for most of my lesbian friends.
On April 19, conservative publication The Federalist published an article titled “Second-Wave Feminists Pushed The Sexual Revolution To End America, And It’s Working.” The think piece by Carrie Gress, a Catholic, anti-abortion theologian, blames a group of 12 women, led by Kate Millett, for the rise of the trans movement and the general degradation of American culture. Phyllis Chesler says, “I must strongly protest most of what Carrie Gress has written.”
I'm sat here, wondering where and how did it all go so wrong, so fast? Children are being sterilised at an alarming rate globally. No one is safe from this Trans Juggernaut.
Native people of standing in the community have swallowed this cult’s dogma entirely. They know they are lying, and we know they are lying, so where to from here?
If my kids’ sexuality evolves into exclusive same-sex attraction, they’ll be hard pushed to find a word to describe themselves. 1* Is this because I homeschool them, in line with some fundamentalist religion that says homosexuality is a sin? Nope. Is it because I send them go to a conservative school where the words gay and lesbian are not mentioned for fear of giving kids unwholesome ideas? Nope. It’s because I send them to a perfectly normal co-ed, New Zealand state secondary school. And at that school they might well be visited by, or see pamphlets authored by, the diversity champions called InsideOUT.
If I were to tell you that as a 13 year old I have never been influenced by my friends – would you believe me?
How important is it for lesbians to draw a line in the sand between “I’m going to use ‘she’ for my male friend who wants to be a woman” and “we can not give up an inch of womanhood”?
The Feminist declaration on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the FourthWorld Conference on Women is supposedly a feminist declaration, but parts of it are not wise, writes Hilary Oxley.
When New Zealand’s full suite of gender ideology laws has been passed into law and becomes operative later this year and into next year* these laws will grant special rights to a special group of people.
Initially, I wanted to continue my navel-gazing blog about growing old. But then I saw a news item about the evil ways of priests in the catholic church that made my always simmering blood boil. So I decided this finally warrants a small rant.
Parents tend to go along with the prevailing customs of their time and place. The social pressure to conform is enormous, whether or not we experience it as social pressure, exactly. If parents don’t conform in certain ways, we’re considered outliers, weirdos, or worst of all, bad parents.
I will not use the language of those who do not believe in material reality. I will not let them set the terms of reference, define the concepts, frame the issues we disagree on. I will not collude with how they have appropriated the language. I will not collude with their undermining of radical feminism as they use our words against us.
Honestly, what did we think would happen when we allowed men to claim to be women? We cannot give them an inch. This is for all the women and radical feminists who want to be fair to their trans friends and make compromises for the trans identified.
A common fantasy among autogynephilic men centers on sleepovers, the ‘girlhood’ these men never experienced, of which they consider themselves robbed. Supposedly, we bodies with vaginas sat around in our panties giggling and painting each other’s fingernails and breaking into scantily-clad pillow fights.
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I recently turned 60, so now I'm officially old-ish. You might laugh, but age is not just a number, no matter what people tell you. When she was harsh and brash, my grandmother frequently snapped, "I am old, so I can do what I like". I really envied her. "Soldier on and you’ll get there eventually" she said, and I guess there's nothing for it. So let's go...
I assumed children who threatened suicide if they didn’t get puberty blockers and wrong sex hormones were just spoilt, thinking they were (or were duped to think they were) born in the wrong body. But is it that simple?
An ad for a Confidence Building Workshop exposes the different faces of “inclusivity” for lesbians.
We are an inclusive organisation. That’s the standard response to any gender critical question or perspective is. It’s hard to argue with, because who wants to say that inclusiveness is a negative and argue in favour of exclusivity? Of course, we all want to be inclusive – or do we?
Global news on women are rarely encouraging, but what’s going on lately is frightening. Have we become so used to male violence we can’t even see it any longer? When is it going to stop? When we’re all dead?
LAVA member Hilary Oxley and a friend went to Wellington Pride’s event at the Michael Fowler Centre 2 years after LAVA was pre-emptively cancelled. Here is what happened.