WDI Podcast

Feminist Question Time with speakers from USA, Canada and UK

Women's Declaration International (WDI) Feminist Question Time is our weekly online webinars. It is attended by a global feminist and activist audience of between 200-300. The main focus is how gender ideology is harming the rights of women and girls. You can see recordings of previous panels on our YouTube Channel.

This week’s speakers:

Mother of Swimmer - USA

Mother of young woman who swims for Ivy League speaks out

Cynthia Millen - USA

How can the Ivy League be so stupid?

In sports, but especially in swimming, bodies compete against bodies. Boys and men will always have immutable advantages over girls and women in terms of lung capacity, skeletal size, increased circulation, and the number of fast twitch muscles. No amount of testosterone suppression will change this, and boys/men who are equally trained will always win over girls/women. This is why swimming has always been divided by sex. Men don't magically become women because they've lowered their testosterone, and it is an insult to all women for any man or organization to support this line of thinking. Furthermore, women and girls deserve privacy and the opportunity to share their uniquely feminine biological/hormonal/psychological experiences with other women and girls. It is degrading to permit biological males into women's locker rooms. Most importantly, girls deserve the opportunity to play to win. It is patronizing to girls to expect them to deny their dreams. By permitting biological men to compete against women, we are pushing girls back to the sidelines and out of the competition.

Bio:

Former County Prosecutor (B.C.-- before children) now children's book author (C.M.Millen). Married for 40 years and Mother of 5 who was a national swim official (USA Swimming, NCAA, International Paralympic) for over 30 years. Women are not men with low testosterone.

Coach Linda Blade - Canada

Update on Will Thomas and the Struggle to Save Women's Sports

By now the entire world of sports knows about Will Thomas, the male swimmer at University of Pennsylvania who self-identifies as a woman and has now dominated women's NCAA swimming races. The question is: What impact has this had on the continued struggle to establish boundary lines for fairness and safety in women's sports? Will advocates for female sports finally be given a seat at the table when international sports federations re-examine their trans inclusion and eligibility policies? The answer offers a glimmer of hope in the midst of this bleak situation.

Bio: Linda Blade is a former National Champion of Canada in track & field (heptathlon) with a PhD in Kinesiology. For the past 26 years, she has run a private consulting business as “Sport Performance Professional” coach in Edmonton, Alberta working with athletes in over 15 sports (beginner to elite). Since 2014, Linda has also served as President of the Board for Athletics Alberta, where she has a duty to represent the province of Alberta at Canadian national sport policy meetings. In a bid to increase public awareness of the threat posed by gender ideology, Linda has partnered with journalist Barbara Kay to author a new book, titled:

UNSPORTING: How Trans Activism and Science Denial are Destroying Sport.

Emma Hilton - UK

Fairness in female sports - after Tokyo

Review of historic rules, latest news on fairness from UK and IOC, case study of swimming.

Bio: Academic developmental biologist, director of Sex Matters, special interest in fairness in sports, consultant with sports federations, author of one of the most popular scientific papers ever published (COVID aside)

For more information: www.womensdeclaration.com

Feminist Question Time with speakers from UK, Chile and Australia

Women's Declaration International (WDI) Feminist Question Time is our weekly online webinars. It is attended by a global feminist and activist audience of between 200-300. The main focus is how gender ideology is harming the rights of women and girls. You can see recordings of previous panels on our YouTube Channel.

This week’s speakers:

Maureen O Hara - UK

Criminal justice, gender identity and compelled speech in England and Wales

Bio: Feminist, Lawyer, Co-author of the declaration of women’s sex-based rights

Carolina Agurto Flores and Constanza Riquelme Bórquez - Chila

An ecofeminist look at the rights based on the sex of peasant girls and women in Chile

Bio:

Hello, my name is Carolina Agurto, I am 33 years old and have a 15-year-old son. I live in a rural area of the central valley in Chile, which bases its economy on peasant agriculture and, in the last 30 years, on patriarchal agro-extractivism. capitalist. I am an ecofeminist activist for women's rights based on sex, particularly peasant women; the right to nutrition and food, and the right to food sovereignty. I work independently as nutritionist, and I have a master's degree in human nutrition.

Hello, my name is Constanza, I am 30 years old, an agronomist by profession, a teacher and facilitator in agroecology for peasant farmers, so I travel from the north and central zone of Chile. I write in Ecoféminas Críticas, I am active in food sovereignty movements since I want to exercise my right to work and care for the land.

Helen Pringle - Austrlalia

The Women's Pool - My talk concerns the Women's Pool, aka McIvers Ladies Pool, in Coogee, a suburb of Sydney where I live. The space fo the pool is for women and children only, and it recently celebrated its 100th anniversary. In 1995, the pool survived a challenge on the basis that its women-only policy was discriminatory, and in the last two years has been the subject of a campaign to allow transgender persons to access and inhabit the space. I talk about WHY it is important to maintain the pool as women-only, in terms of security and privacy, and women's freedom from male surveillance, but also in terms of women's conviviality. I will also say a little about how the book in which my chapter was almost wiped out by trans objections.

Bio: I live and work in Sydney Australia, and am an associate professor at the University of NSW. I teach on women's rights and justice, political theory, Australian politics and international law. I co-founded the Nordic Model Information Network, a global research network supporting the abolition of the prostitution system. I owe what I am to the women of my family, including my great-grandmother, Agnes MacGregor Love, a fearless Glasgow suffragette.

For more information: www.womensdeclaration.com

Feminist Question Time with speakers from New Zealand, Australia and UK

Women's Declaration International (WDI) Feminist Question Time is our weekly online webinars. It is attended by a global feminist and activist audience of between 200-300. The main focus is how gender ideology is harming the rights of women and girls. You can see recordings of previous panels on our YouTube Channel.

This week’s speakers:

Isla McGregor - Australia

Censorship of GC women in Tasmania - I have been organising and campaigning on women's sex based rights since 2012 and since that time have been shocked at the consistent level of bias in the press and especially the ABC and SBS in Australia. Through organising I have become aware of the ideological capture of many institutions and NGO's which I otherwise would have thought would have been willing to look impartially at all sides of a debate as a matter in the public interest. Isla will talk about some of the organisations and individuals who have actively campaigned to prevent women's views from being fairly presented at public forums and in the media both in Tasmania and nationally.

Bio: Isla has worked as an advocate for whistleblowers in Tasmania and Australia since the 1990's. Isla met Sheila Jeffrey's in 2012 when she worked on the campaign against the push for full decriminalisation of the sex trade in Tasmania. In 2018, Isla with several other women, set up Women Speak Tasmania to oppose self ID legislation in Tasmania.

Marg Curnow & Tighe Instone - New Zealand

Lava (Lesbian Action for Visibility Aotearoa) - We will talk about why LAVA was first formed in 1988 and how AotearoaNZ has gone from being the first country in the world where women successfully fought for the vote (1893) and the first country to have the word lesbian in its legislation (thanks to the work of LAVA) to being a country which has now one of the highest (if not the highest) use of puberty blockers and where women's sex-based rights have all but disappeared.

Bio: Tighe was one of the original founders of LAVA (Lesbian Action for Visibility Aotearoa) back in 1988. Marg was the person who set in motion the reforming of LAVA in August 2020. LAVA is committed to fighting for lesbian visibility and sex based women's rights. We are same-sex attracted, not same-gender attracted and we reject “gender identity” as a dangerous ideology that denies the reality of biological sex.For more about LAVA see www.lava.nz

Sheila Jeffreys - UK

The Insult of Transgenderism

For more information: www.womensdeclaration.com

Feminist Question Time with speakers from Ukraine, Brazil and USA

Special focus on the harms of pornography

Women's Declaration International (WDI) Feminist Question Time is our weekly online webinars. It is attended by a global feminist and activist audience of between 200-300. The main focus is how gender ideology is harming the rights of women and girls. You can see recordings of previous panels on our YouTube Channel.

This week’s speakers:

Dr. Gail Dines - USA

Identify Out of This!: Porn and the Material Reality of Women's Bodies - The way post-modernism and third wave feminism have hijacked the feminist analysis of porn from one that focuses on the material reality of men's violence against women to an approach that sees porn as a form empowerment for women

Bio: Gail Dines, a Professor Emerita of Sociology and women’s Studies, has been researching and writing about the porn industry for well over thirty years. She is the author of numerous books and articles. Her latest book, Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality, has been translated into five languages. A radical feminist for as long as she can remember, she sees fierce activism as the only way out of this patriarchal mess.

Izabella Forzani - Brazil

Pornography: propaganda and validation of the hatred towards women - Pornography became one of the great challenges in the struggle of women especially from the popularization of the internet. The widespread of violent and misogynistic contents currently affects more and more people, younger by the day. It is past time to acknowledge pornography as a public health issue and to deal with it as such. In this context, to be anti pornography is to fight alongside women and children against misogyny, rape culture and pedophilia.

Bio: Member of “Refuse a Clicar”, radical feminist and lawyer.

Maria Dmytrtiyeva - Ukraine

Porn in Ukraine: ignored threat - Society is ignorant about the threats of porn, it is considered innocent fun. the children are groomed by adult predators but nobody ackonwledges the connection. teens on the occupied territories are being exploited by porn manufacturers and end up on the Darkweb.

Bio: Maria Dmytriyeva, a long-time women's rights activist and national gender expert in Ukraine, for more than 2 decades has been vocal about the violations of women's human rights and different forms of violence and exploitation women in Ukraine and all over the world are facing. In the recent years, she has been actively working on promoting the Women, Peace, Security agenda. She also runs a radfem Facebook group -- https://www.facebook.com/groups/feminism.ua/

For more information: www.womensdeclaration.com

Feminist Question Time with speakers from Sweden, Serbia and USA

Women's Declaration International (WDI) Feminist Question Time is our weekly online webinars. It is attended by a global feminist and activist audience of between 200-300. The main focus is how gender ideology is harming the rights of women and girls. You can see recordings of previous panels on our YouTube Channel.

This week’s speakers:

Emelie Köhler - Sweden

What the growing number of detransitioners tells us - My own experience, what I've learnt from connecting with other detransitioners and what's inherently misogynistic with trans ideology

Bio: Supporting and raising awareness around detransition and desisting in Sweden.

Daša Stevović - Serbia

LGB shelter in Serbia - Lesbian and gay solidarity network has launched a fist Serbian LGB shelter for lesbians, gays and bisexuals facing homelessness due to homophobia.

Bio: Women's Declaration country contact for Serbia. Member of a radical feminist organization Femrevolt and co-founder of an LGB organization In Serbia, Lesbian and gay solidarity network.

Lynn Chadwick - USA

No Males in Women's Jails

Bio: Feminist, Activist

For more information: www.womensdeclaration.com

Australia NZ chapter of Women Declaration International - WDI discussing Article 9 of the declaration.

WDI is the leading  global organisation defending women’s sex-based rights against the threats posed by gender identity ideology. There is more information on the website womensdeclaration.com where you will find our Declaration on Women’s Sex-based rights, which has been signed by more 29,000 people from 157 countries and is supported by 418 organisations.

This webinar’s speakers:

- Sandra Pertot

Clinical psychologist for 50 years, specialising in sexuality. Concerned about sudden spike in transgender children, she raised her voice against it. She has since been attacked by trans groups calling her ‘transphobic’. She is a member of SEGM.

- Viviane Morrigan

Retired lecturer of University of Queensland. Lesbian activist. First women’s officer of ‘Women for survival’. Secretary and public officer of Coalition of Activist Lesbian. Member of L40, social group for lesbians.

For more information: www.womensdeclaration.com

Feministische Fragestunde der Women’s Declaration International (WDI) – Deutschland, am 29.01.2022 mit der Referentin Dr. Renate Klein zum Thema „Mietmutterschaft – Eine Menschenrechtsverletzung“. Moderiert von Stefanie Bode.

Unsere regelmäßigen Vorträge werden von 30-50 TeilnehmerInnen besucht. Sie sehen unsere vorherigen Webinare auf unserem YouTube Channel.

Die Link- und Literaturliste des Vortrags finden Sie hier:

https://womensdeclaration.com/de/country-info-de/germany-de/whrc-deutschland-mehr-informationen-de/links-und-literaturangeben/

Feminist Question Time with speakers from UK, France, Brazil and Canada

Women's Declaration International (WDI) Feminist Question Time is our weekly online webinars. It is attended by a global feminist and activist audience of between 200-300. The main focus is how gender ideology is harming the rights of women and girls. You can see recordings of previous panels on our YouTube Channel.

This week’s speakers:

Anne R. - Brazil / UK

Mothers, their children and feminism - Under patriarchal society, women are a subcategory of men for their presumed reproductive capacity while the ones that have children, the mothers, are yet a sub category of women. Exiled from social mobility, fired from jobs, they undergo specific types of violence such obstetric violence while producing and maintaining human lives. Unpaid and undermined for the invisible labour they offer to society, by renew the capacity of labourers all around the world with loads of invisible housework, mothers are women that are trapped into surviving patriarchy with the extra responsibility of also protecting and improving the lives of their children. Can we discuss motherhood and childhood from a place of power rather than servitude?

Bio: Anne Rammi is an immigrant woman, artist, activist and mother of three. Born in Brazil, she was a member of several activist communities and movements, focused on social and environmental regeneration, always centring women, especially mothers, children and nature. With solid background in mobilisation, campaigning and culture hacking, Anne is currently living in the United Kingdom and always committed to the future of life on planet earth from a perspective of care and collaboration.

Nina From Canada

Employment Equity: Vs Merit to Self Identity: Canada Hat Tricking the Co-opt - From A Canada perspective the oppression that resulted in the requirement for employment equity has benefited from trans rights more than trans, who are asserting special rights - owing to depriving others of ordinary human senses and own rights to language, ideas and expression; while undermining demographics protected from oppression by conflating and coopting whole person oppression along with misapplying human rights in the public square to private lives.

Bio: A 1990s Dyke who was a news editor at Angles, The Lesbian Avengers Vancouver Chapter, The December 9 Coalition, the Gay and Lesbian / Vancouver Police Liaison Committee, the Vancouver Women's Health Collective, before being a federal civil service employee, who in 1998 was in the first pride marching unit of federal government employees. I have in disability retirement, returned to activism, and I am filing at the BC Human Rights level and am awaiting a Supreme Court of Canada file number. Nina started life as an ordinary Canadian.

Blandine Desanges - France

The count of femicides is now under attack in France, because seen as transphobic - 1 / The history of putting the word feminicide on the agenda 

2 / The group "feminicides by companions or ex" 

3 / NousToutes, a feminist group that becomes queer and then anti-feminist 

4 / The current controversy: the facts, the reactions

Bio: French teacher (economy and sociology in high school), I am a radical feminist and activist. I am very attached to freedom of conscience and expression, which is one more reason to speak here.

Anna Cleaves and Laila Namarkdan - UK

News from UK - Erosion of single sex wards, conversion therapy and more - The erosion of single sex wards in hospitals by default AND update on the UK's proposed legislation on conversion therapy

For more information: www.womensdeclaration.com

Feminist Question Time with speakers from Belarus, Panama, Canada and Luxembourg

Women's Declaration International (WDI) Feminist Question Time is our weekly online webinars. It is attended by a global feminist and activist audience of between 200-300. The main focus is how gender ideology is harming the rights of women and girls. You can see recordings of previous panels on our YouTube Channel.

This week’s speakers:

Pauline Kranendonk - Feminist activist living in Luxembourg: The pitfalls and dangers of using language doused in gender ideology and how to avoid it.

Nídia Paz - Panama: I am the mother of a 13-year-old adolescent, a sister and friend of many women, a popular educator, with training in law. Public advocacy practice for 30 years. An approximation look at the state of the art on the theory of gender self-determination in Panama. I will present data on the country and the situation of women, a reflection of the current environment to generate this debate socially and the critical view of some feminists on the theory of self-identification. 

Kristina - Belarus: I’m young activist and feminist from Belarus. I study international relations in Belarusian State University. I love literature, history and painting and women, because they are wonderful! Study Korean, French and English. Through 2 years Belarus has become the centre of the world’s attention. However, I do not want to talk about politics, but I want to talk about women, because life of Belarusian women are not that bright and It has started many years ago(read centuries). And to show what we are doing for women!

felicia rembrandt - Canada: I am a founder of Gender Dissent, a Canadian feminist news website dedicated to exposing the power, influence and money driving the gender industry in Canada. Prior to starting this website I explored various feminist positions on my personal wordpress blog, a sledge and crowbar. But I became "politically active" only 2 or 3 years ago in response to reading about transactivism on Feminist Current. I will talk briefly about the Canadian context regarding gender ideology. Then the motivation and process of creating the website, Gender Dissent, the women who are part of the team, the types of articles we post. We post two types -- investigative journalism, and items that show Canadians resisting the imposition of gender ideology. Finally, how we are being received.

For more information: www.womensdeclaration.com

Feminist Question Time with speakers from USA, UK & CHINA

Women's Declaration International (WDI) Feminist Question Time is our weekly online webinars. It is attended by a global feminist and activist audience of between 200-300. The main focus is how gender ideology is harming the rights of women and girls. You can see recordings of previous panels on our YouTube Channel.

This week’s speakers:

Helen Steel - UK

The destruction of political movements and the expulsion of feminists from those movements.

Thistle Pettersen - USA

Thistle will speak about the many ways in which Madison activist organizations, a radio station, music venues and her peers in the Madison community kicked her out due to her feminist views of transgenderism and gender ideology.

Louise Somerville - UK

Being Evicted from environmental organisations

Ann and Alice - China

The real situation of Chinese women, the development of political lesbianism among Chinese feminists, and lesbian feminists' understanding of political lesbianism

Contact: [email protected]

For more information: www.womensdeclaration.com