"To take #equality seriously, we must accept that rights matter in relation to both #sex and #gender, though not necessarily in the same contexts. We must accept, too, that we need to defend rights for all individuals, whether they define themselves by sex or gender."
https://observer.co.uk/news/opinion-and-ideas/article/kenan-malik-column-trans-rights-supreme-court
#sexualequality
#womensrights
#transrights
#societalrules
#UKpol
#equalityact
#Equalityact2010
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Minna Antrim (1861-1950) American epigrammatist, writer
Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions (1902)
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A quotation from Peters, Ellis:
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Both men and women partake of the same human nature, Huw. We both bleed when we’re wounded. That’s a poor, silly woman, true, but we can show plenty of poor, silly men. There are women as strong as any of us, and as able.
»
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https://wist.info/peters-ellis/73132/
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"‘Fighting two enemies’: Ukraine’s female soldiers decry harassment
Women in [Ukrainian] armed forces express anger at stigma and treatment by male colleagues and say complaints are being ignored
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“I (platoon sergeant Nadiya Haran, 27) would say we have to fight two enemies at once,” she said. “One being Russia, obviously. And the other one is the stereotypes and the stigma that you face every single day. And the only place that I can say I did not see that stigma was the actual ground zero [on the frontline] because everyone was so freaking busy fighting for their country.”
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More than a hundred female Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion. Ukraine does not conscript women. Each of them volunteered for battle.
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There are approximately 60,000 women serving in Ukraine’s armed forces, of which 5,000 are on the frontline. Ukraine’s ministry of defence makes much of the image of female and male defenders fighting together but based on interviews with the soldiers themselves and the organisations that help them, including the Veteranka women’s veterans body and the Zemliachky organisation, which has donated about $2m in vital equipment, a picture has emerged that suggests a lack of respect for the points of view of its female personnel is one failure among many impeding the force’s fighting effectiveness.
It is a cause frustration and anger for platoon sergeant Nadiya Haran, 27, who joined the army in 2017 as a radio technician. She had wanted to be a translator but until decree No 256 was revoked later that same year, women had been prevented in law from taking up senior roles, including those in combat positions.
There is equality on paper today but scant evidence of it in practise, Haran said, with women’s needs in terms of uniform, body armour, sanitation and career development not treated as priorities and regarded as almost a form of provocation by many men fighting alongside them."
#Ukraine #UkraineWar #ArmedForces #Equality #SexualEquality #Inequality #Sexism
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