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Julie Bindel on the latest calculated insult to women:
When the announcement was made, by Endometriosis South Coast on Monday, many of us considered it to be a parody. “We are excited to share with you all that we welcome Steph to the team as our new CEO. Supporting to move forward with our missions as a charity – we are all grateful to have Steph on board” read the announcement on X.
You know who can never have endometriosis? Men.
Steph Richards is well-known as a trans-activist, often leading the charge of protesters at feminist events, such as one I attended in 2021, in his hometown of Portsmouth. The FiLiA Women’s Rights conference, a gathering of more than 2,000 women from around the world, was picketed by a large group of protesters, draped in trans flags.
Steph was amongst them, screaming about “transphobic feminists”, whilst inside there were women speaking about being raped in refugee camps, trafficked into prostitution, and overcoming childhood sexual abuse.
How dare women talk about bad shit that happens to women instead of about men who pretend to be women?
It is utterly outrageous to employ a man to run a women’s health charity, however he identifies. There are plenty of women, including those whose lives are blighted by endometriosis, that could do the job. It is gaslighting in the extreme.
And because it is gaslighting in the extreme, it’s all too obvious that it’s a deliberate, calculated, with malice aforethought insult. It’s an intentional attack on women and women’s rights and women’s right to organize and talk and campaign for their own issues.
Thanks to extreme transgender ideology being adopted by many women working in the sector, Steph is not the only example of a man taking such a role from a woman. The chief executive of Edinburgh Rape Crisis is a man called Mridul Wadhwa, employed by the handmaidens in order to look “intersectional” and “inclusive”. In 2021 Wadhwa caused outrage when he said on a podcast that those that believe in single sex spaces for rape victims and survivors, need to “reframe their trauma” if they are in the least bit bothered about a male person being in the vicinity of a supposed women only space.
How about men “reframe their trauma” instead? How about Steph “reframes his trauma” by not deliberately stomping all over women?
Personally I think Steph heading the endometriosis charity is much worse than Wadhwa heading the rape charity. There are many male rape victims and it’s often treated as a big joke (especially if the rape takes place in prison), but male endometriosis cases are rare enough to get written up in the medical journals.
Of course it’s not just “women talk about bad shit that happens to women” — it’s “women talk about bad shit perpetrated by men that happens to women.”
I might suggest that having a man heading an endometriosis charity is better than having a man-who-claims-to-be-a-woman heading the charity. The latter is someone pretending to be part of the target audience. It’s kind of like Dolezal, who was doing good work at the NAACP, but who could have been doing so as a white woman, rather than claiming to be black and part of target group.
Milli Hill eloquently makes a case along the same lines as my #3 above:
Should a man run a women’s charity? Maybe – but a trans woman probably shouldn’t.