Trans people are all honorary non-white
The Telegraph article goes on to explain how Oxfam decided to abuse women in the name of Trans Solidarity Supremacy.
Learning About Trans Rights and Inclusion was drawn up in 2020, whilst Oxfam was still reeling from sexual exploitation scandals in Haiti and Chad.
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The training manual was written after the charity’s LGBT+ network wrote to the leadership team demanding that they publicly support trans people and suggested that any debate about rights was part of a “patriarchal and white supremacist narrative” used by the far right.
The letter called for specific resources to be made available, adding: “To argue that trans-inclusivity would undermine the vital work we do for women and girls is not only transphobic, but also perpetuates the white saviour complex that assumes that we know best for the people we work with.”
It says that it is “transphobic” to question whether men who identify as women could pose a threat to women and the fact that debates around identity continue among staff is exposing queer employees to “harm”.
Everything is transphobic. Furthermore, transphobia is somehow connected to the white saviour complex, or at least saying it is is how to get Oxfam to obey orders.
The document produced in the wake of the complaint tells staff that protecting single-sex spaces for women has “contributed to transphobia and undermining of trans rights”.
The goal must be to undermine women’s rights in order to de-undermine trans rights, because obviously trans people are infinitely more important and special and persecuted than stupid boring women.
Julie Bindel sums up:
With the rape conviction rate at an all-time low, I would have hoped that a charity concerned with inequality and oppression would make combatting sexual violence a priority, writes Julie Bindel. Particularly one whose own history in this area is dubious at best.
In the UK, of the tiny minority of rapes that are actually reported to police, only 1.4 per cent are charged by the Crown Prosecution Service.
And only another tiny minority of those get convictions. Three tiny minorities, which means rape is pretty much de facto legal.
However, looking at the document that forms part of Oxfam’s training programme, Learning about Trans Rights & Inclusion, you would think that sexual violence was an imagined problem, dreamed up by racist or fragile white women.
Feminists have fought for sexual assault to be taken seriously. The low conviction rate is evidence that this battle is being lost. If we are now to further dismiss women’s experiences as simply “tears” what hope do we have for this endemic problem to ever be taken seriously?
None. Read the rest.
Oxfam’s core activities (from their website):
– Water for all.
– Equality for women.
– Tackling climate change.
– Food for all.
– Emergencies.
I would have thought that an organisation with any strong management or governance would keep delivering on their stated core activities at front of mind. That should mean applying to trans people the resources required to meet those goals in the locations where Oxfam is operating – as an incidental effect of doing their mission. In other words, Oxfam should not discriminate against trans people, but should help them with water, food, security, shelter, education as they do the rest of the community. It should not mean diverting funding from those core activities towards generic promotion of the trans cause, for the simple reason that that reduces the effectiveness of their core mission, harming those they claim to help, and without measurably gaining anything for trans people in any event.
Given Oxfam’s shaming recent history, they should be making damn sure they are seen to be supporting women, not blaming women for the rape culture Oxfam has previously (still is?) contributed to.
Re “In the UK, of the tiny minority of rapes that are actually reported to police, only 1.4 per cent are charged by the Crown Prosecution Service.”:
I forget where I read it recently, but one of the perverse effects of efforts within the police department to get a higher percentage of rape convictions is that police are less willing to pursue charges, unless they feel they have a strong chance of conviction. Thus, conviction rates go up while charge rates go down.
This has zero to do with the people Oxfam is allegedly trying to help. Transgenderism is not an issue for women in lesser developed nations struggling to get clean water and food. This is about the people who work at Oxfam who need their validation at the expense of the neediest and most vulnerable women.
Eava, I very strongly agree with you. It’s a total failure of organisational governance.
There’s an interview I recommend people listen to – Susie Miller on RNZ. She discusses the issue of getting women justice in the courts for rape and sexual assault through her experience as both a lawyer and a playwright. The UK statistics are specifically discussed, as is the notice justices have taken of the play. The Police are still the gatekeepers though and they seem to have an enormously harmful attitude.
Australian Suzie Miller’s play Prima Facie has been called “one of the most electrifying pieces of theatre on Broadway” and this year won an Olivier Award following a Westend run.
Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/saturday-morning/id175135787?i=1000615484816
Rob, thanks for the heads up. Prima Facie is now on its way to my mailbox. (We don’t have ANY bookstores in town that could order it for me, damn it.) I’m looking forward to reading it.