Thread by @MForstater

100 people including @KateAllenAI Director of Amnesty UK & @marthaspurrier Director of Liberty signed a letter rejecting Suzanne Moore's arguments

These are the points in Suzanne's article:
1) Against cancelling & no platforming people eg Selina Todd
2)WPUK is not a hate group

3) Sex is a material reality not a feeling

4) Female oppression is innately connected to reproduction. Women have made progress by talking about our biology

5) Transgender ideology says sex is a construct, gender is material & sex-based rights not needed

6) You either protect women’s rights as sex-based or you don’t protect them at all

7) The idea that women organising autonomously is 'transphobic' is a patriarchal trap which says women must be chaperoned, not trusted to make decisions

8)Most people want trans ppl to have the best lives they can. It is not feminists who murder trans people

9) Single sex spaces important (particularly because male violence refuges, prisons )
10) Worry about rising numbers of teenage girls with gender dysphoria. Regrets of detransitioners
11) Women have the right to call out men who rape. Women have the right to speak and organise

Is this the message from two major human rights organisations for #IWD2020 ?

Sex based rights are not worth protecting?

Women are not oppressed because of the fact of being female but only because of what they wear?

Women should not be able to organise?

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