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Heller says “We continue to miss the mark on opening up gov because of who is at the table ....Inclusion matters for OGP .... We know that when women and girls are empowered to make public sector decisions in almost any context, smarter and more equitable outcomes emerge.“
And as the #feministopengovernment report finds “governments tend to engage with elite civil society rather than grassroots advocates and rarely with the perspectives of women”.pic.twitter.com/oXO9Sw6RbA
But elite civil society has redefined who "women & girls" are ( a feminine identity, not a sex) & are giving away single sex spaces, without asking ordinary women and girls. Those who object are excluded from debate by elite civil society. This is the opposite of open government
The #womendeliver conference was about issues that are clearly and only about female people: FGM, menstruation, contraception, abortion, maternity ... Yet they capitulated to the idea that there is no need for a single word for the people who experience this realitypic.twitter.com/yNtJk6BMxJ
At the end of his speech Heller put on a yarmulke to illustrate that we are more than one thing "this piece of cloth has the power to transform me from being a member of a dominant group to an outsider, different, not fitting in, having others judge me without knowing me”pic.twitter.com/dnThdAFILo
It was powerful demonstration. But imagine how crass it would have been if he wasn't Jewish and he'd claimed that putting on the kippah made him Jewish? Or if he had put on a turban or a dreadlocks wig and claimed it transformed him into a Sikh or a Rastafarian?
And yet we are told that men can transform into women through putting on clothes and makeup, wearing a wig, perhaps taking hormones or having plastic surgery. Or just by saying that they are.
Being a woman is not a costume. It is not a feeling. This is ridiculoushttps://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2019/04/26/trans-woman-objects-to-contract-requiring-her-to-act-female-to-stay-in-bc-womens-prison.html …
If elite civil society - orgs & their funders in the #opengov movement are serious about transparency, accountability, participation & inclusion they should engage with and listen to the grassroots women's groups that are trying to be heardhttps://medium.com/@MForstater/feminist-open-government-2f1b101c235d …
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