Are trans rights really human rights? Robert Wintemute on the trans rights debate and how we got here
Release Date: 01/22/2023
The woman punched by a counter protester at the 1millionmarch4kids speaks out
Feminist Current
Canadians have begun pushing back against gender identity ideology in schools. But it has not been easy. The first 1millionmarch4kids in Victoria, BC on September 21st was shut down barely after it began, the police determining it was too dangerous to continue. A second rally happened on October 21st, and this time a woman going by the name "Tara" was punched by a counter protester. In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with her about what happened.
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Kajsa Ekis Ekman is a Marxist feminist who is speaking out against gender identity in Sweden
Feminist Current
Kajsa Ekis Ekman Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy, and the Split Self in 2013 and has worked as a prominent and respected journalist in Sweden for many years. In 2022, Kajsa published within which she presents a Marxist feminist critique of gender identity ideology. She has since lost jobs, friends, and support from both leftists and feminists in Sweden. She has not given up on her work, though. This year, Kajsa launched . In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Kajsa about the situation with gender identity ideology and legislation in Sweden, her cancellation, and how she...
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Helen Joyce on how the Labour Party changed its stance on gender identity
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is a journalist, editor, and the author of . Helen is also a founder of , a campaign group advocating for clarity about the two sexes—male and female—in law and in life. In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Helen about new political developments in the UK around gender identity legislation and women's sex-based rights, why women's bathrooms matter, and her . Feminist Current has been fully independent since 2012. Please consider a to support our work.
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Jennifer Bilek on the true roots of the transgender movement
Feminist Current
is a writer, a journalist, and an artist. As many of us struggled to understand the seemingly sudden onset of gender identity ideology and wonder how it took hold of institutions so quickly, Jennifer dug in and found the truth: , biotech, and transhumanists. In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Jennifer about her research and what she found about the roots of the transgender movement after "following the money." Find more of Jennifer's work at the or on . Please consider supporting the podcast with a .
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Jill Ovens resigned from New Zealand's Labour Party to start the Women's Rights Party
Feminist Current
After women's rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen was in New Zealand on March 25th, longtime feminist and socialist Jill Ovens decided she'd had enough. The following week, Jill resigned from the Labour Party and founded the , which states, on their website: "We want a world that is safe and fair for women and girls The Women’s Rights Party is a party of women and men who believe in democracy, equality, and biological reality. Sex is binary Human beings cannot change sex Women are adult humans of the female sex" In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Jill about her political history and...
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Why are dangerous men still being housed in women's prisons?
Feminist Current
In recent years, prisons across the Western world have been allowing men who identify as women to be housed alongside female inmates, leading to sexual harassment, sexual assaults, pregnancies, and complaints from women both in prison and among the general public. These complaints have been mostly ignored by governments and those with the power to do something. That said, the policy in the UK was changed in February in response to one high profile case in particular, wherein a named Adam Graham began identifying as "Isla Bryson" in order to be to a women's prison in Scotland. The new ...
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Pornhub was hosting videos of minors and trafficking victims — what's next?
Feminist Current
In February 2020, Laila Mickelwait, Exodus Cry’s Director of Abolition at the time, published an titled, “Time to Shut Pornhub Down,” bringing attention to the fact that Pornhub was hosting child pornography and videos of trafficking victims on the site. This sparked a petition and accompanying campaign, . Then, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Nicholas Kristof, published a scathing in the New York Times, titled, “The Children of Pornhub," leading the company to leap to action, deleting 80% of their content overnight — about 10 million videos. Visa, Mastercard, and Discover...
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Beyond a woman's choice: the real story of prostitution in Canada
Feminist Current
The issue of prostitution in Canada has been left mostly uncovered. The debate in the public sphere tends to centre around questions of "women’s choices," and the left chants "sex work is work" in an effort to frame the problems in the sex trade as being limited to labour standards. Meanwhile, the men who pay for sex and exploit women in trade are ignored. In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Andrea Heinz and Kathy King, co-authors of a soon-to-be-released book, “When Men Buy Sex: Who Really Pays?” is a Canadian feminist who spent seven years in Edmonton’s...
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The truth about OnlyFans, with Alix Aharon
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Porn and people’s relationships to porn has changed immensely since the advent of the internet — even moreso with apps like OnlyFans and other social media tools that connect consumers directly to women. Many argue these tools are a means to empower women — allowing them freedom, independence, and the ability to make a lot of money. But is that really the case? To learn more about the realities behind platforms like OnlyFans, Meghan Murphy speaks with , Co-Founder of Partners for Ethical Care , the Founder of the , and a porn researcher.
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Are trans rights really human rights? Robert Wintemute on the trans rights debate and how we got here
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Robert Wintemute, a professor of human rights law at King's College London and a lawyer for the , was scheduled to give a talk called called “Sex vs. Gender (Identity) Debate In the United Kingdom and the Divorce of LGB from T,” at McGill University in Montreal last week. The event never happened, though, shortly after it began as protesters stormed the venue shouting profanities and slogans like, "Trans rights are human rights," threw flour at Robert, and unplugged a projector he used for the event. Robert rightly called the protest “extremely anti-democratic.” In this episode,...
info_outlineRobert Wintemute, a professor of human rights law at King's College London and a lawyer for the LGB Alliance, was scheduled to give a talk called called “Sex vs. Gender (Identity) Debate In the United Kingdom and the Divorce of LGB from T,” at McGill University in Montreal last week. The event never happened, though, cancelled shortly after it began as protesters stormed the venue shouting profanities and slogans like, "Trans rights are human rights," threw flour at Robert, and unplugged a projector he used for the event. Robert rightly called the protest “extremely anti-democratic.” In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with him about the protest, as well as how we came to a place wherein trans rights have superseded women’s sex-based human rights in law.