The military coup in Myanmar, led by men, ousted female leader Aung San Suu Kyi & began collaborating with male management at factories to quash women-led workers' unions.
The garment industry is worth $6 billion nationally; women are 90% of its workforce. vice.com/en/article/k7w…
"A majority of the factory managers are men", a trend seen across sweatshop / garment factories in Asia.
They prefer to employ women, paying them a pittance ($3.40 / day) for long working hours, and are known to sexually assault the female workers.
"Fear of rape and robbery are common amongst garment workers, who work long shifts and have to travel during hours of darkness. Women also reported that they suffer from depression, largely as a result of long working hours and poor working conditions."
The minimum wage in the garment sector in Myanmar is about $65 per month.
Union leaders and labour rights activists representing the country’s 90% female workforce have been central voices in the civil disobedience movement that emerged following the coup. business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news…
In May, the junta sentenced 28 people to 20 years in prison for attacks on factories.
Some suspect the military instigated attacks on the factories to justify imposing martial law.
The fires broke out after five garment workers were killed by the military. france24.com/en/live-news/2…
Since the army’s takeover, at least 1,300 protesters and bystanders have been killed, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) @aapp_burma aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/2…
In 2011 a ban on labor unions was dropped; in 2012 collective bargaining was legalized.
Ma Moe Sandar Myint, of the Federation of Garment Workers:
"Eight or nine years ago, strikes were led by men. Employers decided to not hire male workers at high rates." jacobinmag.com/2021/02/myanma…
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I don't quite understand why Mia keeps bringing this up without mentioning any one of the dozen articles I've written about it, nor why she insists on making it sound so incredible.
What I discovered was far more shocking than simply the endorsement of a "eunuch identity" from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.
The online forum cited by WPATH was co-founded by a convicted pedophile named Thomas Pidel who was involved in a child abuse ring.
The opinions of men in the forum - men who were writing sadistic child sexual abuse stories about castration - were presented as research at a 2009 WPATH conference organized by a pro-pedophile sexologist with connections to the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE).
After I published that report, I was notified by Google that it would be hidden from search results in certain unnamed European countries.
"The World Professional Association for Transgender Health referenced a fetish forum co-founded by a convicted pedophile while crafting their most recent standards of care. Thomas Pidel was discovered to have been involved in a pedophile ring."
I was the first to name and investigate WPATH (The World Professional Association for Transgender) and its influence on major institutions. I was the first to call out the connections to pedophilia activism.
Because of my work on WPATH and the Eunuch Archives - a pedophilic castration fetish forum cited in their Standards of Care in 2021 - I was asked to write the WPATH Files in 2022.
It was a copycat investigation based on my work.
Someone paid $200 to access a public WPATH Forum. This person contacted me directly and we had video calls.
The project was taken over by Genspect after this person began posting publicly on social media.
I thought the WPATH Files was a rehash of what has already been put out by other people, specifically blogs like @STILLTish and @4th_WaveNow who have documented medical abuse.
At the time, I was very focused on the issue of women in prison dealing with male transfers.
The WPATH Files, as it was presented, wasn't something I felt was a priority. But I was originally asked to do it.
So when the report was published, and my work was mentioned without a citation, I was confused.
Then I started to get direct messages from multiple people involved in the project, interactions that I didn't initiate.
Stephen Ireland, now jailed for 24 years for raping an "extremely vulnerable" 12-year-old boy — referred to trans activist Peter Tatchell as an "inspiration."
Tatchell, who argued for "intergenerational sex" and praised the "positive nature of child-adult sexual relationships" currently works as an advisor to the London Metropolitan Police in order to establish "collaboration and cooperation".
Both men were in a leadership position with trans activist organization Educate and Celebrate, which advocated for halting children's puberty.
"... He had had sex with a man when he was nine years old. He said it was his choice. Who am I, or you, to dispute it?"
This is a post for the GC nerds. I know that many people won't understand, but I have to say: I don't want to have anything to do with Jennifer Bilek.
It wasn't an easy conclusion to come to. In short, she's been a part of a bullying campaign against me, in addition to praising the conspiracy theorist David Icke, and borrowing her main talking points from feminists - while now taking on an anti-feminist angle.
The bullying started before this, but, as it often happens, I didn't let myself recognize it at the beginning.
This is not an easy read, I understand, and I'm open to questions or dialogue though I'd much prefer if you'd at least take a glance at this before commenting.
I really dislike doing this, there's no joy in it, but I have been treated badly and I have to stand up for myself and say, I'm done.
I'm grateful to my friend @DonovanCleckley for putting this together.
The Wiki category for "transgender" serial killers was deleted in 2019, and since then, male serial killers who dress up in lingerie, strangle women with stockings, or dismember female victims are classified as "female"
Here are Wikipedia editors arguing about how to deal with "TERFs," or specifically, historical feminists who don't believe that men can be women.
Julia Frost:
"Can we edit to get rid of the TERFs though? They're not feminists, they're a hate group.
Natacha Kennedy (trans-identified male)
"We could try... I would suggest putting transfeminists in first and then raising hell if the TERFs try to delete. Then we quietly delete the non-feminists like Raymond and Jeffreys later."