. @GATEOrg are looking for a consultant to write a hit piece on UK feminists who are concerned about the replacement of sex by gender in law and policy and the transing of children... 
Gate have noticed (as we have been saying for ages) that the movement of people concerned about gender ideology in the UK are not in the main right wing or religious but feminist and LGB lead.
These are people who founded and supported Stonewall and marched against section 28.
These are people who founded and supported Stonewall and marched against section 28.
This does not fit with the story that the LGBT orgs and their funders have been telling themself: that the only people who object to the replacement of sex by 'gender identity' are conservative political and religious groups
globalphilanthropyproject.org
@GPP_Updates
globalphilanthropyproject.org
@GPP_Updates
So now Gate want a consultant to map the UK gender critical scene
...and "identify key entry points for international solidarity"
...and "identify key entry points for international solidarity"
They'd like someone with excellent research skills
But also sex workers are encouraged to apply 🙄
(if sex work is work why would this make sense?)
Also indigenous people... Celts, Picts, Angles amongst you get your applications in
(if sex work is work why would this make sense?)
Also indigenous people... Celts, Picts, Angles amongst you get your applications in
Who are Gate? They are an organisation based in New York lead by Mauro Cabral - one of the lead authors of the Yogyakarta Principles and the YP + 10
They've got nearly a £3/4m budget (thats only about 1/10 of Stonewall - not a huge org, but well funded for 7 staff )
And a drop in the ocean of $200 m of foundation funding for LGBTQ issues
(which in itself is a relative drop in the ocean of global philanthropy - Gates Foundation spends $5bn, Open Society Foundation $1.2Bn)
(which in itself is a relative drop in the ocean of global philanthropy - Gates Foundation spends $5bn, Open Society Foundation $1.2Bn)
They are funded by @ArcusLGBT and @OpenSociety and others.
More broadly they are influential of the funders that fund stuff in this area they include many w wider goals of democracy & inclusion like OSF @hivos @SRausingTrust @GlobalFundWomen @Baring_Found & @FordFoundation
More broadly they are influential of the funders that fund stuff in this area they include many w wider goals of democracy & inclusion like OSF @hivos @SRausingTrust @GlobalFundWomen @Baring_Found & @FordFoundation
Given the way the TORs are framed I strongly suspect the final report will score big on GenderWang (HT @jebrux for the cards)
Along the lines of "why are there so many TERFs in the UK"
nytimes.com/2019/02/07/opi…
....which is a real shame.....
Along the lines of "why are there so many TERFs in the UK"
nytimes.com/2019/02/07/opi…
....which is a real shame.....
Because these funders really should engage their brains on what is going on in the UK and ask themselves the @jackappleby question
Because the elitist authoritarian top-down imposition of the idea that sex doesn't matter, and the accompanying clamp down on freedom of speech and belief, and against grassroots civil society organising is the exact opposite of what they say they stand for.
@OpenSociety
@OpenSociety
Read what happened to @abigailshrier
The organisations that are against authoritarianism find themselves on the same side as those trying to shut down her compassionate carefully argued book about dangers to vulnerable children and teenagers
The organisations that are against authoritarianism find themselves on the same side as those trying to shut down her compassionate carefully argued book about dangers to vulnerable children and teenagers
https://twitter.com/AbigailShrier/status/1321869172356251649
The UK's established, funded voluntary sector is cowering already.
In every org there are women and men who think that the move to erase sex and replace it with gender identity is scary, scary stuff.
Who are scared to like the tweets they agree w or even find interesting
In every org there are women and men who think that the move to erase sex and replace it with gender identity is scary, scary stuff.
Who are scared to like the tweets they agree w or even find interesting
What will Gate's "international solidarity" look like?
I fear it will look like more ways of bringing international money and influence to try to crush the plucky little resistance movement that has grown up in the UK.
I fear it will look like more ways of bringing international money and influence to try to crush the plucky little resistance movement that has grown up in the UK.
It will involve the trans activist tail wagging the LGBT dog and then the LGBT tail wagging the global philanthropy dog towards more measures to try to make sure that anyone who might speak on concerns about gender identity ideology is scared or persuaded out of it
If there is anyone in the global open gov, democracy, philanthropy world is thinking about these developments they might want to commission a better report than the Gate hit job, to understand rather than set out to crush the positive deviance in the UK
https://twitter.com/HJoyceGender/status/1321740722094166016
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@maykmd @laurambacon @rakeshrajani @jeanmarionross in case any know ppl thinking on this
@maykmd @laurambacon @rakeshrajani @jeanmarionross in case any know ppl thinking on this
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