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| Topic | Biden sparks TERF war on twitter with gender discrimination order |
| Lebronwon 01/21/21 4:02:38 PM #1: | https://nypost.com/2021/01/21/joe-biden-sparks-terf-war-with-gender-discrimination-order/ President Biden set off a heated identity politics debate less than 24 hours into his presidency when he signed a gender discrimination order that has drawn heat from critics who accuse him of erasing womens rights. Language in the order would allow transgender women to participate in womens sport leagues. The policy seeks to enforce a Supreme Court ruling from last year that prohibits discrimination on the basis of someones gender identity and sexual orientation. Every person should be treated with respect and dignity and should be able to live without fear, no matter who they are or whom they love, read the order, signed on Bidens first day in office Wednesday. Children should be able to learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to the restroom, the locker room, or school sports. The implied politicization of gender in sports drew immediate outrage online with #BidenErasedWomen and #TERFs becoming some of the top trending Twitter hashtags in the US on Thursday morning, as two sides of the political debate duked it out. Unilaterally imposing trans ideology on a nation with no thought for womens rights is not how you create unity, feminist activist Dr. Jane Clare Jones wrote in a tweet, criticizing the decision. Wall Street Journal reporter Abigail Shrier also took to Twitter to lash Bidens order, which she said unilaterally eviscerates womens sports. Any educational institution that receives federal funding must admit biologically-male athletes to womens teams, womens scholarships, etc. A new glass ceiling was just placed over girls, Shrier said. The LGB Alliance, a lesbian, gay and bisexual alliance group from the UK which has also been labeled transphobic, said it was appalled by Bidens order. We are appalled by @potuss executive order erasing the sex-based rights of women and girls, read a tweet from the group. It deals a severe blow to women and girls in sport, prisons, rape shelters, hospitals etc and bans lesbians and gays from having our own spaces. We will help our US friends to oppose it. Film director Sonia Poulton also pushed back on the charge that she was transphobic for criticizing Bidens order. I get called TERF because I believe women have a right to our own sports, prisons, refuges & spaces and because I believe children should be protected from people who seek to sexualise them and to confuse them about who they are. Happy to stand for what I do, she wrote. Added another pundit: If you think opposition to biological advantage is transphobia, youre a fucking idiot. --- Not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4, not 5, not 6, not 7 ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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