Join WDI USA in Seattle
November 17-18th
November 9, 2024
On November 17, I will join WDI USA for a public panel on women’s rights in the state of Washington. The event will be at 7:00 p.m. at the Seattle Public Library. It will mark nearly five years since the historic event, “Fighting the New Misogyny: A Feminist Critique of ‘Gender Identity,’” hosted by the group Women’s Liberation Front, in the same location. A recording of that event is available here, on WoLF’s YouTube channel.
This time, I will be talking about the Olympus Spa case (where a man is claiming that it violates his human rights not to be allowed to walk around naked in a female-only nude spa; WDI USA brief here) and the importance of women-only spaces. April Morrow, leader of Sovereign Women Speak, will speak about how women's prisons in Washington state are no longer safe for women due to the inclusion of men. Veteran, advocate, and former political candidate Susanna Keilman will discuss the importance of spas to Korean culture and how this case has been received within that community. Women's rights activist, writer, lecturer, and educator Amy Sousa will focus on body image/body dissociation, gender clinics, and the harms of the DSM diagnosis. Detransitioner Camille Kiefel will speak about her experience with transition and her advocacy for more holistic approaches to gender dysphoria. Environmental activist Carol Dansereau will speak on the damage done to women's rights, K-12 indoctrination, and the atrocity of pediatric sex change.
Please join us and spread the word, especially to friends in the Seattle area! Tickets must be purchased in advance and only ticketed participants will be permitted to enter (deadline 12:00 a.m. November 15).
This looks like a fabulous panel, and I am sorry I am on the other coast and unable to attend. FYI, particularly to any Ds here: inow is a particularly opportune time to take any chance you can to push on the Democrats’ failures to address the issues to be discussed on this panel.
For one, I am using this opportunity, wherever I see an opening, to discuss the issue with friends. Still slow work, but I am finding an opening more than in the past. Also, while it may feel Quixotic, do consider commenting on analyses in the MSM that fail to consider these issues. There’s an opportunity for this today in The NY Times (actually, several, I suspect). Below is what I wrote, with a link to the op-ed piece, if of interest (with thanks to Kara for her alert to the data analysis from which this information comes):
Mr. French’s commentary on the election results is smarter than many I have seen so far. There is another aspect that seems under recognized. We need more data, but so far it appears that Trump did not increase his vote share, while the Democrats hemorrhaged votes. If that is correct, then Trump did not win the election, the Democrats lost it. An early data analysis shows that the three top election issues were inflation, immigration, and a focus “more on cultural issues like transgender issues rather than helping the middle class.” The same analysis shows that the last “was the most frequent criticism among swing voters who broke for Trump (+28)." I think the question was badly put, but the impact on the vote of the Democrats’ blind embrace of gender ideology to the detriment of women’s rights and spaces and the improper medicalization of troubled children needs to be examined. On this, the Democrats (I speak as a Democrat) have only themselves to blame. Many women, including me, tried to warn our electeds they needed to change course, but they refused to listen. I voted for Harris because I was well aware the alternative was dire. But many women stayed home, and others voted for Trump because of this.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/10/opinion/harris-trump-campaign-curling.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
I trust everyone here who is a D has signed the Democratic Women’s Declaration, but if you know of anyone who hasn’t, please encourage them to sign (I was glad to see Martina Navratilova pushing it out!). https://www.democraticwomensdeclaration.com/
Thanks for the notification, Kara! I’m in northern California, and am going to check on plane tickets this afternoon. 🥳