I meant deceitful as in masquerading as female primarily in order to access spaces reserved for women (such as a male rapist identifying as female, to access a female prison and cause harm).
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the whole point of opening up manels is to learn from diverse perspectives. and demonstrate that expert does not equal white male. so i'm ridiculously relaxed about this.
The point of #manels thing is that lots of conf organisers *don't* oppose them or even think about them. Or the event organiser doesn't have power to tell her boss they should find female experts.The point of the Q was that men have taken the pledge because women underrepresented
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And in my example Bunce is a white man who likes to dress in women's clothes. And ppl have said that he makes the panel inclusive enough...so no need for another man who has pledged to use his position to help woman to do so!
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As Alice pointed out and as I pointed out, there doesn't seem to be a trade-off between trans rights and women's rights in 99.5% of the cases conference organizers will face.
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Treating people who say they are in part or whole women as such doesn't pose much of a risk to the fight for women's representation on panels. Unless you are worried about a nonexistent universe where men start conspiring to cross-dress on a regular basis to duck the pledge.
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