The appallment of Morgane Oger
You what now?
So the problem is that boardmembers of a women’s center want the women’s center to be for women?
That is, board members of a woman’s center don’t want to be “inclusive” of men, because it’s a women’s center. Morgane Oger finds this scandalous. If he were a woman maybe he would understand why women want to be able to organize and meet as women without having to be “inclusive” of men all the time, even men who tell us they are women trapped in male bodies.
Updating to add more information via a comment by Naif:
As a founding member of the Nelson Women’s Centre with a long history of involvement as both a volunteer and board member, I feel compelled to present the other side of this story.
When the leadership of the centre decided to change its mandate to include all genders, they contravened the West Kootenay Women’s Association’s constitution that for 46 years has guided an organization for women, serving the needs of women in the community.
At the 2018 annual general meeting, a resolution to include all genders in the membership of the society was discussed. The resolution did not receive sufficient votes to pass. Yet the leadership of the centre ignored this result and proceeded as if the resolution had passed.
The decision by the leadership to change this 46-year-old mandate without proper procedures and without respecting the membership resulted in disagreement and confusion. Questioning or challenging the new direction became defined as “bullying.” But the “bullying” referred to was not one-sided, as the article implies.
Women who’ve been long-term volunteers, former board members and supporters of the women’s centre have been “bullied” by being banned from the centre and some threatened with legal action if they come to the centre. So who is bullying whom?
It is an ugly mess that highlights how weak the legislation that governs non-profits in BC actually is.
https://www.nelsonstar.com/opinion/letters-the-other-side-of-the-womens-centre-story/
Oh good grief. Thank you for the link.
Sounds a lot like the”Conservative Resurgence”
Extremists. As in, far from the general consensus for what is considered reasonable and defensible. Believing that biological sexes exist, and that ‘woman’ refers to the female sex, and that the female sex is in need of advocacy groups specifically for issues facing the female sex, is extremism according to Oger.
How buried in the trans bubble can a person be??
For context, in early 2018 the Center hired a transgender individual who identifies as non-binary as one of two executive directors. This solidified a shift in focus that was not then ratified at the AGM.
There is a legal dispute currently in suspension with a consent order, dictating how the AGM (this week) will be conducted, and requiring the society to bring all reporting up to date. It must be something about resisting the Patriarchy or similar, but much like the UVic Women’s Centre, the first thing that seems to happen to these organizations is that they stop doing all of their non-profit and tax filings. Past board members are understandably concerned at the resulting prospect of a dissolution order, particularly because as I understand it over the preceding 45+ years a sequence of volunteer EDs was able to file in a timely fashion, when there was a single ED, there was similarly no difficulty. Now that the payroll has expanded to include 2 EDs, none of the reporting is being done and members don’t even know if the Centre can afford those EDs.
Hah, posted that previous comment from a different PC, and the site doesn’t like it. Must have different cookies.
Ya it’s a different email address so the site is all “oh no you don’t, stranger.”
Why would a Women’s centre hire a “non-binary” person in the first place? Hire “non-binary” people for jobs that are not women-specific all you like, knock yourselves out, but not for a Women’s centre. If the “non-binary” person can’t admit to being a woman then that person is not the right person for that particular very specific job.