Women who discuss sex and gender identity in the “Global North” face smear campaigns, physical abuse and legal harassment, said the UN Human Rights Office in a May 22nd press release.
Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, warned of “the shrinking space” in Western countries for women and feminist organisations “to gather and/or express themselves peacefully in demanding respect for their needs based on their sex and/or sexual orientation.
“I am disturbed by the frequent tactic of smear campaigns against women, girls and their allies on the basis of their beliefs on non-discrimination based on sex and same-sex relations,” said Alsalem, one of the UN’s women’s rights monitors. “Branding them as ‘Nazis’, ‘genocidaires’ or ‘extremists’ is a means of attack and intimidation with the purpose of deterring women from speaking and expressing their views.”
The Special Rapporteur claimed that the attempts to silence concerns about the tensions between women’s rights and gender identity are “deeply troubling, as they are intended to instil fear in [women and girls], shame them into silence, and incite violence and hatred against them.” She insisted that the social, legal, and violent censorship of sex-based women’s rights “severely affect[s] the dignified participation of women and girls in society.
“We have witnessed incidents of verbal and physical abuse, harassment, and intimidation, with the purpose of sabotaging and derailing such events as well as silencing the women who wish to speak at them,” Alsalem said.
She emphasised that those who prioritise transgender inclusion over sex-based rights “also have a right to express their opinion,” but should not be allowed to threaten “the safety and integrity” of those against whom they are protesting.
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SubscribeAmazing, a UN Special Rapporteur talking sense!
A broken clock and all that…
A broken clock and all that…
Amazing, a UN Special Rapporteur talking sense!
And in the UK a teacher got banned from teaching for refusing to go along with the transgender insanity: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12113249/Christian-teacher-suspended-misgendering-trans-pupil-banned-teaching.html
It is little wonder that men are abandoning the teaching profession in droves. These days it involves little more than coddling entitled children. The sad thing is all these children really want/need is for adults to lay down boundaries. Pushing boundaries is a natural part of childhood; as adults we do children a big disservice by letting them get their way all the time. The adults who support them in this are little more than weak enablers.
It’s called child abandonment, neglect and abuse.
It’s called child abandonment, neglect and abuse.
And in the UK a teacher got banned from teaching for refusing to go along with the transgender insanity: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12113249/Christian-teacher-suspended-misgendering-trans-pupil-banned-teaching.html
It is little wonder that men are abandoning the teaching profession in droves. These days it involves little more than coddling entitled children. The sad thing is all these children really want/need is for adults to lay down boundaries. Pushing boundaries is a natural part of childhood; as adults we do children a big disservice by letting them get their way all the time. The adults who support them in this are little more than weak enablers.
The pervasiveness of the gender ideology is beyond horrifying. It must have been happening for some time before we took notice.
I am a 25 year veteran HS English teacher at a public school in New York State. In the past 2 years, I have seen a dramatic increase in trans identifying students, and students identifying as non-binary. At the same time, mental health diagnoses are through the roof. The kids are not alright. What has shocked me recently has been the way the school and local community have been complacent and seemingly on board with all of this.
As an English teacher, I am loathe to ban books, but some books have no place in the school library. Two of those books are the graphic novel Gender Queer and the “reference book” Let’s Talk About It – Teens and Sex. Gender Queer has drawings of sex acts, sex toys, and a depiction of Plato’s Symposium with a nude man and BOY touching each other as the narrator attempts to pleasure him/herself. It’s disgusting.
Let’s Talk About It – Teens and Sex has drawings of naked adult bodies, including trans bodies, butt plugs (hadn’t heard of them myself and was quite blissfully unaware), threesomes, and recommends kids use the internet to research their “kinks” and “fetishes,” join likeminded “communities,” and buy porn to learn more. It also reassures kids that STI’s are no big deal, even AIDS!
Both of these books are in school libraries. Gender Queer has gotten a lot more attention, and been removed more. But many adults and parents have fought hard to keep it in school libraries. Same for Let’s Talk About It, and I fear with this book, many parents don’t know it’s there. In some districts it’s in elementary and middle schools.
Certainly gay and lesbian teens need representation, but why not a nice love story? And shouldn’t teens have a reference book with healthy information about respecting one’s body and the emotional impact of sexual activity.
I know I’m old now, a 57 year-old woman, and perhaps out of touch. But this can’t be normal. Why don’t these parents want to protect their children’s innocence? What in hell is going on in the world? How can these perverse forces have gained so much power and influence, and normalized such deviant things as fetishes and kinks marketed to children? I’m heartsick over it.
https://www.amazon.com/Lets-Talk-About-Teens-Relationships/dp/1984893149/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=UhEgS&content-id=amzn1.sym.bc5f3394-3b4c-4031-8ac0-18107ac75816&pf_rd_p=bc5f3394-3b4c-4031-8ac0-18107ac75816&pf_rd_r=W055KPQNGN4RJTAJ1XYR&pd_rd_wg=wCz1k&pd_rd_r=87ee1cb1-6b5a-4c30-9c39-17b7e7bd6585&ref_=pd_gw_ci_mcx_mr_hp_atf_m
Those books sound truly horrifying!
I could not agree with you more and heartsick is a good way to describe how I feel. My kids are all grown, so I am a little out of touch, but i looked online at one of the books you named and was in total disbelief.
I saw the content of this book that someone posted on Twitter.
There is no way the person who wrote it isn’t a paedophile.
The same goes for anyone who wants to put it in a school.
Those books sound truly horrifying!
I could not agree with you more and heartsick is a good way to describe how I feel. My kids are all grown, so I am a little out of touch, but i looked online at one of the books you named and was in total disbelief.
I saw the content of this book that someone posted on Twitter.
There is no way the person who wrote it isn’t a paedophile.
The same goes for anyone who wants to put it in a school.
The pervasiveness of the gender ideology is beyond horrifying. It must have been happening for some time before we took notice.
I am a 25 year veteran HS English teacher at a public school in New York State. In the past 2 years, I have seen a dramatic increase in trans identifying students, and students identifying as non-binary. At the same time, mental health diagnoses are through the roof. The kids are not alright. What has shocked me recently has been the way the school and local community have been complacent and seemingly on board with all of this.
As an English teacher, I am loathe to ban books, but some books have no place in the school library. Two of those books are the graphic novel Gender Queer and the “reference book” Let’s Talk About It – Teens and Sex. Gender Queer has drawings of sex acts, sex toys, and a depiction of Plato’s Symposium with a nude man and BOY touching each other as the narrator attempts to pleasure him/herself. It’s disgusting.
Let’s Talk About It – Teens and Sex has drawings of naked adult bodies, including trans bodies, butt plugs (hadn’t heard of them myself and was quite blissfully unaware), threesomes, and recommends kids use the internet to research their “kinks” and “fetishes,” join likeminded “communities,” and buy porn to learn more. It also reassures kids that STI’s are no big deal, even AIDS!
Both of these books are in school libraries. Gender Queer has gotten a lot more attention, and been removed more. But many adults and parents have fought hard to keep it in school libraries. Same for Let’s Talk About It, and I fear with this book, many parents don’t know it’s there. In some districts it’s in elementary and middle schools.
Certainly gay and lesbian teens need representation, but why not a nice love story? And shouldn’t teens have a reference book with healthy information about respecting one’s body and the emotional impact of sexual activity.
I know I’m old now, a 57 year-old woman, and perhaps out of touch. But this can’t be normal. Why don’t these parents want to protect their children’s innocence? What in hell is going on in the world? How can these perverse forces have gained so much power and influence, and normalized such deviant things as fetishes and kinks marketed to children? I’m heartsick over it.
https://www.amazon.com/Lets-Talk-About-Teens-Relationships/dp/1984893149/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=UhEgS&content-id=amzn1.sym.bc5f3394-3b4c-4031-8ac0-18107ac75816&pf_rd_p=bc5f3394-3b4c-4031-8ac0-18107ac75816&pf_rd_r=W055KPQNGN4RJTAJ1XYR&pd_rd_wg=wCz1k&pd_rd_r=87ee1cb1-6b5a-4c30-9c39-17b7e7bd6585&ref_=pd_gw_ci_mcx_mr_hp_atf_m
It wouldn’t surprise me if she is sidelined soon. The trans lobby is amazingly powerful and very very well funded (including from my taxes in U.K. which I find infuriating!)
Right, sidelined or simply ignored. Or, perhaps this will be an application of weight to the rudder that steers the great decrepit UN ship in a different direction.
We will not give up. We cannot allow biological sex to be erased from law.
We will not give up. We cannot allow biological sex to be erased from law.
All the more reason for those who welcome her words to spread them far and wide.
Right, sidelined or simply ignored. Or, perhaps this will be an application of weight to the rudder that steers the great decrepit UN ship in a different direction.
All the more reason for those who welcome her words to spread them far and wide.
It wouldn’t surprise me if she is sidelined soon. The trans lobby is amazingly powerful and very very well funded (including from my taxes in U.K. which I find infuriating!)
A significant win for common sense
A significant win for common sense
Where are my salts?!
Where are my salts?!
I particularly appreciate Ms Alsalem’s use of the term Global North as an alternative to the Chinese term baizuo, to signify the abode of overprivileged virtue-signalling wankers. More of this please.
I particularly appreciate Ms Alsalem’s use of the term Global North as an alternative to the Chinese term baizuo, to signify the abode of overprivileged virtue-signalling wankers. More of this please.
Reply to Samantha Stevens:
The world is sick!
Reply to Samantha Stevens:
The world is sick!
BORRRR…..ING
BORRRR…..ING