The punitive measure
Japan’s longest-running rape crisis center has been declared ineligible to receive public funding following statements made by the facility’s director which were deemed by government officials to be discriminatory against males who identify as transgender.
So government officials punish a rape crisis center for not “including” males. Kind of misses the point of having a rape crisis center at all, if you ask me.
Tokyo’s Rape Crisis Center was founded in 1983 by six women, half of whom were survivors of sexual assault. Michiko Orita, one of the founders, first confirmed the punitive measure during a meeting held last year in May organized by women’s rights campaign group Save Women’s Spaces, which was primarily concerned with the potential ramifications should gender identity policies be adopted in the nation.
“There have been various attacks and obstructions against our association [Tokyo Rape Crisis Center] throughout the last year. In one specific example, the director of the Minato City Center for Gender Equality carried out a speech suppression and power harassment attack against us for more than an hour, based on criticism that not referring to ‘transgender women’ as ‘women’ is detrimental to the promotion of gender equality and diversity in the Minato Ward,” Orita said during her 2022 presentation.
Well that’s backward. It’s pretending that men are women, and punishing women for not pretending that men are women, that’s detrimental to “gender equality.” I don’t know what “gender diversity” is supposed to be.
The issue was again brought to light during an emergency press conference held in Tokyo on May 1 to address concerns about a proposed LGBT bill that would codify “gender identity” into law while banning “unfair discrimination” on that basis, without clearly defining either term.
“Male self-identified ‘women’ ignore the purpose of having a women-only space,” Orita said. “The desire not to have physical men in women-only spaces is not prejudice or a discriminatory attitude, but comes from evidence-based reality.”
But evidence-based reality is detrimental to the desire of some men to bully and punish and ostracize women.
Pretty sure Japan still doesn’t have gay marriage and yet there’s this? There’s a fucking pandemic on…
Recall the Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter Mar 18, 2019 (https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadas-oldest-rape-crisis-centre-stripped-of-city-funding-for-refusing-to-accept-trans-women)
There needs to be (but I haven’t seen one) an essay that explains how exclusion of various parties, in particular circumstances, creates value for society.
If the service had already been “fully inclusive” of both sexes, its value would be extremely limited to those who need it.
Further proof that Transgenderism is a Men’s Rights movement. They want women to have no escape from men, none.
“There needs to be (but I haven’t seen one) an essay that explains how exclusion of various parties, in particular circumstances, creates value for society.”
That’s easy!
Excluding the GOP* from government creates value for society. I present the history of government as evidence.
* substitute with appropriate party for time period.
Or country.
I didn’t mean political parties, Mike. I meant it in the sense of any given class. In this case, I was meaning males. Had the rape crisis shelter been fully open to males as well as females, it would be of little to no use to females who need it. Excluding all males is a necessary pre condition to create the space that has value for the intended purpose: allowing female rape victims to recover from their trauma.
I probably should have included a smiley in my post, it wasn’t really meant to be a serious reply. I agree with everything you posted.