#save women's spaces

[hjellacott]

Women won't wheesht.

Transgender women are male women.

Transgender men are female men.

Save women's spaces.

Keep women safe.

Not our crimes.

J. K. Rowling is right.

#women won't wheesht #transgendere women are male women #transgender men are female men #save women's spaces #keep women safe #not our crimes #j. k. rowling is right

[disaster-red]

Ricky conceding wasn’t sad, man was going to experience his best life. Space cat people. And damn I would concede to sexy cat women, hell yeah!!!!!! Ricky was gearing up to go be his best self in sexy cat heaven, my boy had plans and he was going to do them!!!!!!

#ricky potts #ride the cyclone #rtc #Ricky my beloved #sexy cat people #space age bachelor man #banger song banger ending #man had a plan #he is thriving #saving Zolar for cat women

[coffeeandcalligraphy]

1:30am & thinking about all the bipoc women writers who went out of their way to be so incredibly kind to me while only having met briefly… like the author I met a couple months before moving to school who was so excited & encouraging when I told her I was studying writing… & like the caribbean poet who bonded with me after learning we were both guyanese & who comforted me when I was struggling in first year in a majorly white city & as one of the only bipoc in my department… & to the Black poet who kept in touch with me when I was transitioning to university & who was one of the first ppl to message me when I got off my first flight to a new city… & to the Cree poet whose reading I attended in 2021 who talked to me outside the venue in the cold about indigeneity at a time where I badly wanted to learn more about my ancestors but didn’t know where to start… she has no idea that that one conversation drove me to research (as best I could) my ancestry & in doing so learn more about my family & the language I couldn’t name standing on that corner… literally ily bipoc women !!!!

#no but this level of community is extremely sacred to me #while womanhood etc is a Topic for me personally LOL I feel rlly grateful to be seen in these spaces #random realization based off nothing btw it just hit me the compassion I’ve received #from woc writers in particular <3 #not naming ppl obviously bc idk if that is weird lmao but I’ve talked about all of them at some point #sooo many bipoc women unknowingly came together to save my ass at 18 who had no idea how to deal #with this new and isolating experience…!!! anyway women!!!!

[dadbodbensisko-moved]

i think about this a lot

#ds9 #rom #star trek rom #ds9 rom #deep space nine #star trek #dominion war #the cardassians did/would do to the rest of the alpha quadrant what they did to bajoran women #the dominion war was probably devastating in ways we didn't see #and #rom....... #saved almost everyone from this fate. #allowed people who did face consequences of war to be saved...... #captioned

[forbidden-interlude]

#don’t think I ever posted this #i literally save these on tumblr before deleting them from my camera roll for space #me #me. #black girls #blackout #selfie #my face #black women

[coochiequeens]

Male self-identified ‘women’ ignore the purpose of having a women-only space,” Orita said. “The desire not to have physical men in women-only spaces is not prejudice or a discriminatory attitude, but comes from evidence-based reality.”

Japan’s longest-running rape crisis center has been declared ineligible to receive public funding following statements made by the facility’s director which were deemed by government officials to be discriminatory against males who identify as transgender.

Tokyo’s Rape Crisis Center was founded in 1983 by six women, half of whom were survivors of sexual assault. Michiko Orita, one of the founders, first confirmed the punitive measure during a meeting held last year in Mayorganized by women’s rights campaign group Save Women’s Spaces, which was primarily concerned with the potential ramifications should gender identity policies be adopted in the nation.

“There have been various attacks and obstructions against our association [Tokyo Rape Crisis Center] throughout the last year. In one specific example, the director of the Minato City Center for Gender Equality carried out a speech suppression and power harassment attack against us for more than an hour, based on criticism that not referring to ‘transgender women’ as ‘women’ is detrimental to the promotion of gender equality and diversity in the Minato Ward,” Orita said during her 2022 presentation.

Under Japanese law, “power harassment” is considered a serious charge. The legal code was updated in 2019 to address “remarks and behavior of people taking advantage of their superior positions in the workplace that exceed what is necessary and appropriate for the conduct of business, thereby harming the working environment of employees.” 

It was after this altercation, Orita said, that the Rape Crisis Center (RCC) was removed from a list of projects subsidized by the government. Since that time, the RCC has received threats sent to their email address.

“There is an increase in trans-discriminatory and trans-hate labeling and suppression of speech in a situation where most citizens have no knowledge of gender identity. Currently, victims of sexual violence are the target of criticism as trans-discriminatory, and the harmful effects of this are to silence and attack women victims who are suffering from sexual harm,” Orita said last May.

The issue was again brought to light during an emergency press conference held in Tokyo on May 1 to address concerns about a proposed LGBT bill that would codify “gender identity” into law while banning “unfair discrimination” on that basis, without clearly defining either term.

“Male self-identified ‘women’ ignore the purpose of having a women-only space,” Orita said. “The desire not to have physical men in women-only spaces is not prejudice or a discriminatory attitude, but comes from evidence-based reality.”

Orita revealed that she had heard complaints from survivors of abuse, and explained that men in women’s spaces can be re-traumatizing for victims. “Two years ago, when our organization was selected by the Tokyo Metropolitan government’s Minato Ward to organize a lecture on ‘Considering Equality from the Perspective of Sexual Violence,’ a participant said, ‘A woman I know was victimized by a man dressed as a woman in the women’s bathroom. I don’t want transvestite men and trans women to go into women’s toilets.”

Orita described how the attacks against her, and her establishment more broadly, began in response to views she published in a newsletter put out by the Rape Crisis Center in 2021. In the newsletter, Orita questioned the slander directed at renowned author J.K. Rowling after she publicly threw her support behind Maya Forstater, a woman who had her employment contract terminated for questioning gender identity ideology.

“J. K. Rowling was once a victim of domestic and sexual violence, so she came to believe that people should be distinguished by their biological sex, rather than their gender identity. She said that spaces segregated on the basis of biological sex, such as women-only restrooms, public baths, domestic violence shelters, and sometimes women-only train carriages, are a necessity. It is the right of women, discriminated against from birth on the basis of the physical sex, to have a space free from male violence,” the RCC newsletter read.

Orita said that she was told her newsletter amounted to discrimination because she had referred to trans-identified males as “trans women” instead of women.

“To write ‘trans women’ is apparently ‘discrimination’ and goes to the very heart of the Minato Ward’s selection process for grant aid projects. Since then, we have continued to be excluded from the other women’s projects that have been selected [for funding] all these years.”

Orita continued: “In addition, a seven-page letter was sent by an associate professor at Hiroshima University, and a self-described ‘trans ally’ regarding the article, saying that we should apologize to all transgender people or he would launch a protest action.”

Another topic of concern addressed by the newsletter was a lawsuit being heard in the Supreme Court which has the potential to set a legal precedent allowing sex self-identification. The suit was brought forward by a man who has self-declared his sex as female and is seeking unrestricted access to women’s restrooms.

The man, whose name has not been released to the public, has not undergone any surgery and retains male genitalia. He has been diagnosed with gender identity disorder and has been taking female hormones, and began publicly presenting himself as a woman since 2010. In 2013, he filed a petition with the National Personnel Authority to remove restrictions on his use of women’s restrooms at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s (METI) office, but it was rejected.

However, in 2015, unnamed fellow employees filed a lawsuit demanding that the decision be overturned. in December 2019, the Tokyo District Court ruled that the response was illegal, citing that “it constitutes a restriction on the important legal interest of leading a social life that conforms to one’s self-identified gender.” The ruling acknowledged responsibility for compensation and ordered the payment of 1.32 million yen ($9,600 USD). The case is ongoing, and a hearing in the Supreme Court is scheduled for June 16.

“Attacks and threats were made because we wrote an article about the trial of trans woman A, who works for the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, who wants to use the women’s restroom alongside his colleagues, and we have since been targeted from all sides,” Orita said in her presentation.

In the newsletter, Orita questioned how a man can feel like a woman on the inside, and stated that she objected to reducing women to external appearances, which she emphasized reinforced stereotypes, and challenged the belief that the plaintiff in the suit had a right to women’s spaces.

“The attitude of Mr. A, who concludes that there is no problem because there were complaints, is the same as when, in a male-dominated society where, if the woman does not say ‘no,’ she is thought to accept it. Mr. A does not recognize the anxieties of women, which even men can imagine, and uses the power of the court to pressure women. What does it men to be a ‘woman at heart?'”

A Twitter account belonging to the anonymous man involved in the lawsuit was discovered to have been making sexually suggestive posts. Women who oppose men entering female-only facilities drew attention to several instances where he had joked about his penis in a sexualized context.

Orita more recently discussed the issue of the RCC being denied funding during an emergency press conference held at the beginning of the month. Four organizations gathered to expressed their opposition to a proposed LGBT Discrimination Bill which includes a stipulation designating a self-declared “gender identity” as a protected characteristic. 

Representatives from the Association for Gender Non-Conforming People, a group made up of those who have been diagnosed with gender identity disorder, and the Association to Protect Women’s Spaces, spoke alongside LGB activists to share their concerns about the legislation.

The meeting was assembled in response to mounting pressure from foreign powers to adopt measures enshrining the subjective term “gender identity” into law before the upcoming G-7 Summit, scheduled to begin on May 19. Concerns presented at the press conference included the expanding of women-only spaces to men, which speakers said placed women at risk of assault or harassment, and the treatment of the lesbian community by men who claim to be women.

In recent months, several representatives from both the United States and Australia have met with Japanese officials to discuss the topic of “gender equality,” particularly in how it relates to gender identity under the umbrella of the LGBT movement. The foreign influence in domestic affairs has drawn widespread criticism from Japanese citizens.

Last month, Australia’s Ambassador for Gender Equality, Stephanie Copus Campbell, spoke with members of the national Diet to “discuss how Australia and Japan can work together to promote gender equality.” In February, Copus Campbell announced her appointment to the new role as “Australia’s lead international advocate” for “persons of diverse gender identites” in a video that was met with sharp criticism on social media.

On May 12, the U. S. Ambassador to Japan, Rahm Emanuel, shared a video featuring fifteen foreign representatives pressuring the government of Japan to pass the LGBT bill. “When my closest friends give me the same advice, I pay attention,” he said.

Ambassadors from Argentina, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Australia, Finland, Norway, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, among others, reiterated the message that Japan ought to pass the bill ahead of the G7 summit. The majority of the speakers focused on the same-sex marriage aspect of the bill rather than the more controversial “gender identity” portion.

Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) sponsored the LGBT bill and is aiming to pass the legislation before the G-7 Summit in Hiroshima begins on May 19. The term “gender identity” was not included in the LDP’s initial outline of the bill, but was added due to pressure from lobbyists during revision talks in 2021.

Several lawmakers have expressed opposition to the “gender identity” aspect of the bill by pointing out how this infringes on women’s rights and privacy. However, Former Defense Minister Tomomi Inada, who supports the bill, told the press that “the issue of men violating women’s rights by falsely claiming to be women is a problem that has nothing to do with the legislation.”

As previously reported by Reduxx, a Japanese trans-identified male YouTuber prompted backlash last December after boasting of using the women’s sauna at a hotel and describing seeing women naked in highly sexual terms. Nao Wasada, who also uses the name Suzanne Misaki, uploaded a video to his YouTube channelon December 5 titled “What Happened After a Former Man Took Off His Clothes and Entered the Women’s Bath.” He called the experience “paradise,” saying he was in “boob heaven,” and stated that it was not his first time entering a women’s public bath.

International rankings, including those from the World Economic Forum, consistently place Japan as one of the most unequal countries in the developed world in terms of political representation and economic opportunities for women. Sexual harassment involving groping, up-skirting, and the illicit recording of women, known as voyeur pornography, are rampant in the nation. Authorities have designated certain train carriages as women-only and placed public service announcements in response.

Reduxx attempted to contact Orita to provide comment for this article, but did not receive a response prior to publication.

By Genevieve Gluck

Genevieve is the Co-Founder of Reduxx, and the outlet's Chief Investigative Journalist with a focused interest in pornography, sexual predators, and fetish subcultures. She is the creator of the podcast Women's Voices, which features news commentary and interviews regarding women's rights.

If any ladies in Japan have more insight in this please comment.

#Japan #Tokyo’ Rape Crisis Center #Save Women’s Spaces #Power harassment #Trans identified men don’t want their working penis to be used as an excuse to keep them out of women’s spaces #Then make sexualized references to their penises on social media #Japan is listening to countries where the TQ+ have run amok and dragged women and the LGB with them

[thefuneralbook]

#ai art gallery #save #ai art #ai generated #pictures #ai artwork #ai image #ai #oc #women #digital #graphic novel #ai aiart #aliens #space #outer space #alien #art #costume #scifi #black women #vampire #black girl magic #black girls rock #fantasy art #eyes #cryptid

[fadedelegance]

Entitled males gonna entitled male: Japanese edition

#sex based rights #protect single sex spaces #biological sex is real #save women’s spaces #radfem safe #terfblr #radical feminism

[vavandeveresfan]

NCAA faces lawsuit over transgender policies: 'Fight for the very essence of women's sports'.

The tide is fucking turning.

#Riley Gaines #save women's sports #women's spaces #women's sports #women's rights #feminism #women athletes #NCAA lawsuit

[seventeendeer]

I JUST FINISHED SONIC FRONTIERS AND. ARE YOU FOR REAL. ARE YOU FREAKING FOR REAL

RIGHT AFTER I POSTED MY LONG ANALYSIS ABOUT HOW GIRLS IN SONIC GAMES ARE PRACTICALLY AN ENDANGERED SPECIES

#deerchatter #sonic frontiers #sage the ai #sonic frontiers spoilers #caps cw #yes im putting this in all the tags. look at my post boy #linking the post in question in a reblog #also yeah yeah yeah i know about the post-credits scene but YOU CANNOT TELL ME WE'RE EVER ACTUALLY SEEING SAGE AGAIN #sega's gonna read 1 review calling her cringe and be like get RID of the girl character we can't let people know we CAN'T WRITE WOMEN #sage is going to pop up as an unvoiced unlockable character in a spin-off phone game once and maybe get a comic cameo #this is so funny. it's so so so funny. literally like 3 days after i posted that analysis #she hits all the qualifiers too. supporting female character in her debut game going through emotional turmoil and dying at the end #to save a male recurring character she cares about and protect the world. she even got a dramatic space explosion like cosmo #the absolute comedic timing of it all. im crying but not for the reasons the game wanted me to i don't think #sonic frontiers was great otherwise btw had a lot of fun collected a lot of shapes 7/10 fun times good times lol #sketchertalkssth

[quinnfabrayapologist]

Do you ever wonder how exactly there came to be such a transphobia problem in British feminism?

Not really. Pretty straightforward IMO.

Britain is highly patriarchal and pretty much just an oligarchy at this point, given the majority of people in charge were born rich and went to one of a handful of private schools. Fair amount of them are also journalists to some degree, or work with journalists on the regular, so when those pesky feminists wanted to dismantle their little boy's club, they stoked up a culture war to give them a new target.

A great example is the NHS. There's been issues lately with supply of oestrogen. I have a former classmate who is a raging transphobe and in her fifties. She's constantly on twitter talking about how the reason she can't get her hormone replacement therapy for her menopause is that trans women are taking all the oestrogen. Her source? A right wing newspaper linked to half of the current PM's cabinet. The real issue? The Tories have been systematically gutting and selling off the NHS since they came into power, which is causing shortages now, because the Tories want the NHS to fail so they can say 'see? NHS doesn't work. Time to privatise the whole thing' and make a mint doing it.

So basically, the minority we should actually be worried about - the 1%ers who have had everything handed to them on a silver platter all their lives, including some of the highest powers this land has to give, and are using that power to take our country apart for profit in the houses of parliament - have convinced a decent portion of feminists that a minority with basically no power is the root of all evil.

And so, using their institutional power (being the law-making elites) and their influential power (clickbait articles they've usually written themselves), they've convinced a portion of feminists that the upper-class, born-rich, bred for rule, blue-blooded bullies who thrive off the patriarchy aren't the problem, trans people are, and so the sect of feminists they've successfully turned against trans people are now fighting to uphold the patriarchy on behalf of the Conservatives and calling it feminism.

#this is an oversimplification tbh but it's also a tumblr ask that i'm trying to respond to promptly #really i could write a whole essay about this #but all the ties are right there #TERFism is closely linked to the alt right for a reason #and the goals just reinforce that #no matter what age someone transitions they have a problem with it #which is just another way of saying they don't want people having bodily autonomy #which links to pro life bullshit #they're talking about 'third spaces' just for trans people #which is a thinly veiled attempt to just push trans people out of society entirely #if a trans person decides to not have a surgery or hormones for whatever reason they label them a fetishist #and they talk about protecting the children. usually by calling trans people gr00mers with no basis #which again is just them saying trans people shouldn't be near children with extra steps. which ALSO pushes trans people out of society #and there have been so many issues with transvestigators 'clocking' trans people #because 'WE CAN ALWAYS TELL' #and then half the time the person they've 'clocked' is cis but like... is a woman with short hair. and the response is she looks 'male' #at which point... just say you want all women barefoot and pregnant. it saves time. #and then they claim to be feminist or pro choice or whatever... but they still don't want bodily or medical autonomy #unless you want something that they approve of #and then we've got the tories just reinforcing this with BS legislation and articles in the guardian #that are just them saying 'look at the evil trans people! they're the root of all evil!' #and these TERFs are like 'you're so right. they're the problem here.' #meanwhile the tory is destroying everything behind them as they turn their weapons on the trans community

[pansexual-pied-piper]

Okay so I just saw the wild take that "TERFs don't hate bi men" which uh

Of course they do? They're radfems. Radfems hate men (or who they perceive to be men, at least).

TERF is simply the name for the specific subtype of radfem that also includes trans women in that hatred bc they believe them to be men - particularly heinous men bc they are trying to "infiltrate" women's spaces, even.

I thought we all knew this? Radfems hate men and a lot of radfems are of the TERF subtype. If a positivity post for bi men gets hate from people who believe that men don't deserve positivity ... that hate's likely from TERFs.

#like they may especially hate trans women for ''infiltrating'' women's spaces but that doesn't mean they don't hate men..? #like their hatred of men is WHY they hate trans women so much #one is a symptom of the other #(please don't get me started on the mess that is their view of trans men. the whole 'we must save you but also you are a traitor to women #but also if you detransition we will love you we promise but until then we will deride and mock you but we're totally trying to save you #bc you are a poor confused girl who was brainwashed by the trans cult but also kys shrimp dick')

[hussyknee]

Listen I love Ellen and Oscar but

June Claremont-Diaz 🫱🏽‍🫲🏻 Princess Bea

↓↓

✨ Parentification Trauma ✨

#listen I know there's many reasons this happens even with loving parents #but it's incredibly psychologically damaging to have to fill a parent's shoes for a sibling even if you're legally an adult #because your brain doesnt give a shit how legal you are #it just knows you're prioritizing playing a parental role when you need to be focusing on yourself #my most intense parentification trauma years was between 17–22 #it broke my heart that June left her boyfriend to be with Alex because she knew she's the only one who would prioritise him #and Bea pumping the brakes on her mental health spiral because her baby brother didnt have a functional parent left #granted that may have saved her but having to claw yourself back to sanity bc you have to take care of someone else is seriously non-ideal #and yeah I know that their brothers were worth it and they dont regret it #but they have so much reason to be burnt out and hold their mothers to account good god #women arent caretakers and protectors because we're just built naturally kind. it's because we get left to do the nurturing and caretaking #until it becomes second nature #for my part being a big sister is fundamental part of me and caretaking and protecting and nurturing is who I am now #but the inability to ever put myself first and take space when someone needs me #the inability to turn off the kindness tap even when it's running blood #the instinct to fix things and take responsibility for everyone #it's all incredibly damaging in the long run #''southern goodness'' baby that's the gender conditioning ideal #do you know how much repressed pain it takes to be that kind and gentle #firstprince #june claremont diaz #bea fox mountchristen windsor #parentification #child neglect #emotional neglect #feminism #gender conditioning #knee of huss #rwrb #red white & royal blue

[thefuneralbook]

“Maybe hold the camera straight!”

#ai art gallery #save #ai art #ai generated #pictures #ai artwork #ai image #ai #oc #women #space #engineers #girls #comics #comic books #punk fashion #cyberpunk #anime #tv shows

[fadedelegance]

https://x.com/salltweets/status/1709335340883063293?s=46&t=v29QdsOtRdKJWbeBrMTmWQ

What further proof does anyone need that this is about misogyny and autogynephiles throwing temper tantrums because more and more people are refusing to bend over backwards for them to affirm their sexual fetish?

#radical feminism #sex based rights #radblr #radical feminist #radfem thoughts #gender critical #biological sex is real #sex based oppression #save women’s sports #protect women’s spaces #save women’s spaces

[snowangeldotmp3]

suddenly i have the urge to go deep dive jstor for articles on 19th century spiritualism.

#and that’s what i’m up to for tonight #thanks to my women gender and religion class i think about this stuff constantly now #prof jennifer if you are reading this this is your fault (affectionate) #i literally saved all of the articles from both classes. sacred spaces and women and religion #I WOULDVE GOTTEN MY DEGREE IN HISTORY OF RELIGIONS BUT I DIDNT EVEN KNOW THEY OFFERED THAT UNTIL MY LAST YEAR UGH #personal???