The calling me a TERF snd hater came from a coworker but the condemnation of me the next workday included and was supported by management. Then i was fired two days later. My employer even denied my unemployment for “misconduct” related to my alleged mistreatment of my trans identified co-workers. However, there was nothing but the email exchange about abortion rights. My employer didn’t even bother showing up. I won my unemployment hearing.
Feminism is not to blame for this ideology erasing sex. We fought for the elimination of sexism, NOT sex. Women can and have done every job and profession that men have done when given an opportunity. We are still female. Male supremacy or patriarchy is a social phenemenon, rather then an inevitable result of the biologucal differences between the sexes.
Abortion rights are essemtial to women’s freedom and dignity. We are not walking incubators. Pregnancy effects every organ in the body, and can threaten our health and even lives. Early abortion is far safer then giving birth. The decision whether to bear a child belongs to the womsn.
I don’t support either corporate Party and never have. Both parties have betrayed women in their own ways. I have been a Green Party member for many years though the national Party too betrayed theur traditional support for feminism; hence GASBR was formed. I never supported the erasure of sex and female existence and opposed this extremist ideology from the beginning. I also support free speech and the rights of workers, both male and female. I don’t demonize anyone including people I strongly disagree with. If my employer had harassed and threatened to fire a co-worker for her or his anti-abortion views, I would have gone to bat for them. I don’t think employers should have that kind of power to control the political views of their employees.
Junk science. There are so-called scientists that deny evolution, global warming, and that sex is binary. Pregnant women do feel pain, however, and sacrifice their health, sometimes their lives to carry a pregnancy and give birth. Since women are fully human and not incubators or birthing machines, our bodies should not be used against our will. Freely chosen motherhood is a wonderful thing. Forced pregnancy and childbirth is female slavery.
I wish you the very best Ann in your fight for justice and for being able to reclaim the name of 'woman' as applying to 'adult human female.' I am shocked at all the misogynistic comments and 'whataboutery' in the other comments here.
I am disappointed by the lack of dialog in the comment section. We cannot afford to become ideologues.
You do not have to agree with everything the author says or believes, but the intolerance for different ideas has to stop.
The only way we get out of this mess is by learning how to respectfully disagree with those who think differently without ousting or “cancelling” them from the group.
Thank you for standing up Ann. It takes courage to fight such irrational madness masquerading as "reality." As a retired 71 year old clinical social worker who spent 40 years in the field I've come to realize that I'd never make it through a university "education" in today's academic environment - because I prize my ability to think critically for myself. Your lawsuit is a very important act of resistance. I've spent a lifetime supporting the human rights of "all" people - and yet today I am considered a "bigot" and a "transphobe" by many because I believe "sex" exists and women should not have to share safe spaces like rape shelters, domestic violence shelters or locker rooms with human beings who have a penis. Who would ever have guessed that such a seemingly uncontroversial position might eventually become "prohibited thought?" It's pretty simple from my perspective. When the "rights" and "feelings" of human beings with a penis - somehow over-ride the "rights" and "feelings" of human beings with a vagina - (no debate allowed or necessary) - that is called "misogyny" - plain and simple - and no matter what language you use to dress it up. And I will stand with my sisters against misogyny until my last breath.
The right to abortion is, of course, necessary for women to control our own reproductive capacity and absolutely required for women's liberation. It is unconscionable that the DRC would leave women out. Why can't they use the phrase "women and other people who can get pregnant?"
Did they REALLY claim sex is a spectrum and not binary??? That is pure pseudoscience. Sex and the ability to reproduce comes down to eggs and sperm, no other gamete, nothing in between, so there is no "spectrum." Genitals can be on a spectrum, personality can be on a spectrum but sorry DRC, sex is dimorphic or "binary" in the current parlance.
Good luck with the suit Ann, thank you for standing up for all female people!
Ann, I am a proud TERF, a radical feminist of the Old School, like Germaine Greer. I am ashamed of the so called ‘feminists” of today that are all for the erasure of Woman, deny the immutability of binary sex, and believe prostitution is legitimate “work” for women and girls. These women suffer from internalised misogyny.
I just retired after serving 34 years as federal government attorney. At the last monthly meeting I attended, after someone mentioned something related to DEI, I asked if we could still say “woman” or was that now a bad word? Dead silence, except for one woman who burst out laughing. No one answered the question.
So many Woke attorneys in my old office. They are kind, lovely people but they have bought hard into gender ideology. Their indoctrination started in college when Feminist Studies transformed into Gender Studies. It’s been downhill since then as those students are now managers.
Thank you for suing your former employer. At every intersection of Woman and a minority, Woman loses. Your lawsuit focuses attention on that imbalance: abortion affects the bodies of ONLY women/girls. Firing you for stating the obvious is discrimination based on sex.
Good for you, Ann, for suing. However, the fight against radical "trans" right activists and their billionaire autogynephile funders can only be victorious if everyone who refuses to accept the "trans" lie gets on board to oppose the erasure of women. And that includes men, straight women, Christian women, and those who oppose abortion, too. They need to be part of your team and shouldn't be dumped on by treating them as the enemy in this fight. Otherwise, you're limiting your team to socialist, radical feminist, lesbians who are obviously a miniscule part of the population. It's obvious to me and should be obvious to you, too.
It is chilling how quickly this ideology has has spread, how efficient it has been in making people believe that even saying the word “women” is hateful.
I was a bit unclear about who made the response below:
“I was called a “hate monger” and a “TERF”—a misogynist slur. “She argues that trans people are not who we say we are. This is a dangerous, deceitful lie, and results in serious violence and stigma towards trans people…Trans men and non-binary people also need abortions…”
This was on the organization’s internal messaging system. Was it a superior staff member who said this, or a colleague? Either way it’s wrong, but it would be worse from someone above because it would send the message to the organization at large that women are expected to disassociate from their biology (and their reality).
What do you mean women are "the sex that dare not say it's name"? Surely you are aware that men are subject to exactly the same sex erasure for exactly the same reasons? The only difference is that we are not used to constantly playing the victim and special pleading, so you don't hear much about it. I was reading a very prominent health site yesterday (Healthline), and discovered that I am no longer a man but a "person with a penis." This in increasingly the house style in a lot of US medical publications. Fathers disappeared from much legislation and literature around child birth a long time ago. I am generally on board with the desire to retain sex designations, but the attempt to pretend that women are special victims here, or victims of men, is divisive and wrong.
Well all this back and forth from the hormet’s nest I stirred up has confirmed my view that misogynists (and homophobes) indeed come in two flavors - the sex denialist group who I wrote about and who got me fired; and the folks that would keep women barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen - their subordination to men ordained by God and nature and a key to their “happiness” (whether they like or not).
Rather than radical feminists being responsible for the sex denialists - we challenged them from the very beginning (have you ever heard of Janice Raymond??) - the “keep them barefoot and pregnant” group really have much in common with the extremist gender ideologues. Both groups blame feminists for everything (“transphobic bigot” “manhater,” “murderer of trans people,” “murderer of children”) and see women as less than fully human, if we are seeb at all.
In Iran, the theocratic government embodies both these forms of misogyny - women though highly educated are denied opportunities in the workplace, and must cover their heads, and while lesbians and gay men get the death penalty there, the government encourages and will pay for medical transition. Half the women’s soccor team in Iran is male.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if this merger eventually happens here too.
The calling me a TERF snd hater came from a coworker but the condemnation of me the next workday included and was supported by management. Then i was fired two days later. My employer even denied my unemployment for “misconduct” related to my alleged mistreatment of my trans identified co-workers. However, there was nothing but the email exchange about abortion rights. My employer didn’t even bother showing up. I won my unemployment hearing.
Feminism is not to blame for this ideology erasing sex. We fought for the elimination of sexism, NOT sex. Women can and have done every job and profession that men have done when given an opportunity. We are still female. Male supremacy or patriarchy is a social phenemenon, rather then an inevitable result of the biologucal differences between the sexes.
Abortion rights are essemtial to women’s freedom and dignity. We are not walking incubators. Pregnancy effects every organ in the body, and can threaten our health and even lives. Early abortion is far safer then giving birth. The decision whether to bear a child belongs to the womsn.
I don’t support either corporate Party and never have. Both parties have betrayed women in their own ways. I have been a Green Party member for many years though the national Party too betrayed theur traditional support for feminism; hence GASBR was formed. I never supported the erasure of sex and female existence and opposed this extremist ideology from the beginning. I also support free speech and the rights of workers, both male and female. I don’t demonize anyone including people I strongly disagree with. If my employer had harassed and threatened to fire a co-worker for her or his anti-abortion views, I would have gone to bat for them. I don’t think employers should have that kind of power to control the political views of their employees.
Junk science. There are so-called scientists that deny evolution, global warming, and that sex is binary. Pregnant women do feel pain, however, and sacrifice their health, sometimes their lives to carry a pregnancy and give birth. Since women are fully human and not incubators or birthing machines, our bodies should not be used against our will. Freely chosen motherhood is a wonderful thing. Forced pregnancy and childbirth is female slavery.
I wish you the very best Ann in your fight for justice and for being able to reclaim the name of 'woman' as applying to 'adult human female.' I am shocked at all the misogynistic comments and 'whataboutery' in the other comments here.
I am disappointed by the lack of dialog in the comment section. We cannot afford to become ideologues.
You do not have to agree with everything the author says or believes, but the intolerance for different ideas has to stop.
The only way we get out of this mess is by learning how to respectfully disagree with those who think differently without ousting or “cancelling” them from the group.
Thank you for taking this stand, Ann.
Yours in the sisterhood of leftist radical feminist supporters of abortion rights who know what a woman is,
Kara
Thank you for standing up Ann. It takes courage to fight such irrational madness masquerading as "reality." As a retired 71 year old clinical social worker who spent 40 years in the field I've come to realize that I'd never make it through a university "education" in today's academic environment - because I prize my ability to think critically for myself. Your lawsuit is a very important act of resistance. I've spent a lifetime supporting the human rights of "all" people - and yet today I am considered a "bigot" and a "transphobe" by many because I believe "sex" exists and women should not have to share safe spaces like rape shelters, domestic violence shelters or locker rooms with human beings who have a penis. Who would ever have guessed that such a seemingly uncontroversial position might eventually become "prohibited thought?" It's pretty simple from my perspective. When the "rights" and "feelings" of human beings with a penis - somehow over-ride the "rights" and "feelings" of human beings with a vagina - (no debate allowed or necessary) - that is called "misogyny" - plain and simple - and no matter what language you use to dress it up. And I will stand with my sisters against misogyny until my last breath.
The right to abortion is, of course, necessary for women to control our own reproductive capacity and absolutely required for women's liberation. It is unconscionable that the DRC would leave women out. Why can't they use the phrase "women and other people who can get pregnant?"
Did they REALLY claim sex is a spectrum and not binary??? That is pure pseudoscience. Sex and the ability to reproduce comes down to eggs and sperm, no other gamete, nothing in between, so there is no "spectrum." Genitals can be on a spectrum, personality can be on a spectrum but sorry DRC, sex is dimorphic or "binary" in the current parlance.
Good luck with the suit Ann, thank you for standing up for all female people!
Ann, I am a proud TERF, a radical feminist of the Old School, like Germaine Greer. I am ashamed of the so called ‘feminists” of today that are all for the erasure of Woman, deny the immutability of binary sex, and believe prostitution is legitimate “work” for women and girls. These women suffer from internalised misogyny.
I just retired after serving 34 years as federal government attorney. At the last monthly meeting I attended, after someone mentioned something related to DEI, I asked if we could still say “woman” or was that now a bad word? Dead silence, except for one woman who burst out laughing. No one answered the question.
So many Woke attorneys in my old office. They are kind, lovely people but they have bought hard into gender ideology. Their indoctrination started in college when Feminist Studies transformed into Gender Studies. It’s been downhill since then as those students are now managers.
Thank you for suing your former employer. At every intersection of Woman and a minority, Woman loses. Your lawsuit focuses attention on that imbalance: abortion affects the bodies of ONLY women/girls. Firing you for stating the obvious is discrimination based on sex.
I fully support Ann and her brave and honourable. defence of women’s rights
Good for you, Ann, for suing. However, the fight against radical "trans" right activists and their billionaire autogynephile funders can only be victorious if everyone who refuses to accept the "trans" lie gets on board to oppose the erasure of women. And that includes men, straight women, Christian women, and those who oppose abortion, too. They need to be part of your team and shouldn't be dumped on by treating them as the enemy in this fight. Otherwise, you're limiting your team to socialist, radical feminist, lesbians who are obviously a miniscule part of the population. It's obvious to me and should be obvious to you, too.
It is chilling how quickly this ideology has has spread, how efficient it has been in making people believe that even saying the word “women” is hateful.
I was a bit unclear about who made the response below:
“I was called a “hate monger” and a “TERF”—a misogynist slur. “She argues that trans people are not who we say we are. This is a dangerous, deceitful lie, and results in serious violence and stigma towards trans people…Trans men and non-binary people also need abortions…”
This was on the organization’s internal messaging system. Was it a superior staff member who said this, or a colleague? Either way it’s wrong, but it would be worse from someone above because it would send the message to the organization at large that women are expected to disassociate from their biology (and their reality).
What do you mean women are "the sex that dare not say it's name"? Surely you are aware that men are subject to exactly the same sex erasure for exactly the same reasons? The only difference is that we are not used to constantly playing the victim and special pleading, so you don't hear much about it. I was reading a very prominent health site yesterday (Healthline), and discovered that I am no longer a man but a "person with a penis." This in increasingly the house style in a lot of US medical publications. Fathers disappeared from much legislation and literature around child birth a long time ago. I am generally on board with the desire to retain sex designations, but the attempt to pretend that women are special victims here, or victims of men, is divisive and wrong.
Well all this back and forth from the hormet’s nest I stirred up has confirmed my view that misogynists (and homophobes) indeed come in two flavors - the sex denialist group who I wrote about and who got me fired; and the folks that would keep women barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen - their subordination to men ordained by God and nature and a key to their “happiness” (whether they like or not).
Rather than radical feminists being responsible for the sex denialists - we challenged them from the very beginning (have you ever heard of Janice Raymond??) - the “keep them barefoot and pregnant” group really have much in common with the extremist gender ideologues. Both groups blame feminists for everything (“transphobic bigot” “manhater,” “murderer of trans people,” “murderer of children”) and see women as less than fully human, if we are seeb at all.
In Iran, the theocratic government embodies both these forms of misogyny - women though highly educated are denied opportunities in the workplace, and must cover their heads, and while lesbians and gay men get the death penalty there, the government encourages and will pay for medical transition. Half the women’s soccor team in Iran is male.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if this merger eventually happens here too.