Posted on 04/23/2023 5:52:17 PM PDT by NetAddicted
We, the members of the Black Women’s Caucus of Women’s Declaration International USA, believe that it is crucial for Black Women to denounce gender identity ideology. This ideology promotes the idea that sex is nothing more than a social construct and that an individual can choose to *be* a man or a woman regardless of her or his sex. Gender ideologues employ the “forced-teaming” tactic against Black women in order to shame us into being work mules for their campaign of male sexual privileges that they call “transgender rights.” While these efforts are masked as progressive and inclusive concepts, gender identity ideology is actually intrusive and harmful to women, and uniquely so to Black women.
Gender identity ideology erases the unique experiences of women and reinforces the harmful stereotypes of femininity and masculinity. It is also incompatible with the fight for women’s rights because it allows men access to spaces and activities designated for women such as bathrooms, sports teams, and housing. It has been reported that 1 in 4 Black girls are sexually assaulted before the age of 18 and 35% of Black women report experiencing physical sexual violence. Policies that allow men unfettered access to female-designated facilities put Black women and girls, a demographic disproportionately impacted by male violence, at an even higher risk.
Black women are 2.5 times more likely to be murdered by men than White women and this is why the fight against gender ideology is pertinent for Black women; we are the demographic most in need of protection from male violence. There have already been deadly consequences where an employer ignored a Black woman’s whistleblowing regarding a male who demanded to be recognized as a woman. Monica Archer, a caseworker in a women’s shelter, warned her employers about a client, Harvey Marcelin living as Marceline Harvey, who’d made threats against her and other shelter employees. Archer was fired for speaking out. Marcelin had already served 50 years for murdering and dismembering two women and after Archer’s whistleblowing was ignored, Marcelin was found to have murdered and dismembered a 68-year-old “gal-pal” he had met while living in the women’s shelter.
Marcelin has since been reimprisoned, but locking away criminally-violent men who claim to be women doesn’t end the horror for all women. As of 2021, California has imprisoned men who claim to be women in women’s prisons. Since then, there have been women who have come forward claiming to have been harassed and sexually assaulted by some of these men. Studies have shown that even when men claim to be women, they display a typically male pattern of criminality with respect to violent crimes. Additionally, 49.7% have been convicted of sex crimes. Therefore, incarcerated women are forced to be housed with male criminals of whom half have a history of sexual violence. Since Black women are seven times more likely than White women–and more than twice as likely as Hispanic women–to be incarcerated during their lives, these inhumane conditions of incarceration disproportionately and unfairly affect a maligned and especially vulnerable group of Black women. Being raped while incarcerated amounts to torture at the hands of the state.
Black girls are another vulnerable subset of the Black female population who have already borne the brunt of gender identity ideology. In 1993, Luis Morales, a man pretending to be a woman, along with his boyfriend and fellow member of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation gang, kidnapped a 13 year-old Black girl named Ebony Nicole Williams. Ebony was brutally and repeatedly raped and tortured by Morales, who was motivated by sexism and racism. Morales’s boyfriend, Carlos Franco, then mercilessly stomped on Ebony’s neck until it was broken before both men packed her petite body into a box, dumped the box near an expressway, and set the box on fire. The violence Morales and Franco inflicted upon Ebony was so extensive that she could only be identified through dental records. In 1996, Morales was sentenced to 25 years in prison for Ebony’s murder. He suggested that he had avoided the rape conviction due to his “gender identity.”
Unlike Ebony, Morales has been able to grow older and pursue happiness. While detained, Morales became a media sensation and noted advocate for the “rights” of incarcerated men claiming to be women and, after a lawsuit in 2003, was granted wrong-sex hormones paid for by the state of New York. Since being paroled in 2018, Morales has appeared as a member of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project’s advisory committee. To honor Ebony’s memory and to protect other Black girls, we stand unapologetically against gender ideology.
The impact of gender ideology is not only being felt in the area of male violence against women. It is also a socio-economic issue. Men overall receive a disproportionate amount of sports scholarship funding compared to women, and Black women and girls make up only 9% of student athletes. Making men who pretend to be women eligible for sports scholarships designated for women and girls further disenfranchises Black women and girls from opportunities to fund their education.
Also, Black women are especially likely to be homeless due to inability to find affordable housing. Classifying men as women further aggravates the disparity. When we include men in female-designated housing programs, we do so at the expense of Black women.
We urge all Black women to denounce gender identity ideology and instead advocate for policies that protect the rights of Black women and girls. This fight is especially crucial for Black women, as we are the demographic most in need of protection from male violence but with the least access to that protection. We must stand up against any movement or idea that seeks to erase our experiences or undermine our fight for equal justice, safety, and dignity.
Black women have spent decades undoing the trauma of colorism, hair texturism, and featurism. We can’t then turn around and embrace a movement that encourages self-hate and perpetuates the same standards of femininity that were often used against Black women and girls. We can’t teach our daughters the lie that we can be born in the wrong body and expect them to feel comfortable with their skin color, hair texture, or other bodily features. It is against our best interest as Black women to support gender ideology and we urge other Black women to support women’s rights, instead.
~Women’s Declaration International USA- Black Women’s Caucus
Lorraine Nowlin, Coordinator
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... REPLY KR says: April 21, 2023 at 11:04 am Incredibly well said! I’m a white British left winger. I hope the Democrats and ‘moderate’ media listen to you and platform you. Good luck with your campaign in the US.
REPLY Charlie53 says: April 21, 2023 at 12:26 pm This statement is superb. It spells out clearly the grotesque injustices of gender ideology against women and girls, especially Black women and girls. Every right that women and girls have fought for over centuries is in jeopardy by the fiction that “transwomen are women.” The struggle against this criminal ideology is going to be a long and painful one, but gender identity ideology must be eradicated to protect the rights of women and girls. ... REPLY Sophie says: April 21, 2023 at 6:57 pm Thank you for highlighting all of these issues. I pray that you are heard. ... REPLY Margaret says: April 22, 2023 at 2:39 am Well said! I am going to share this all over the world – more and more women waking up to the idea that they are being completely shafted and erased by this ideology. I hope the prominent women in US politics are reading this and re-thinking their stance (especially those on the left) – the number of times that Biden has insulted women in plain sight and in government is unbelievable. Wheeling out men who think they are women and calling them representational of women is outrageous. International women Day – speechless!!!! You are right about the “forced-teaming” – and sure as eggs is eggs your rights and inequalities will fall to the bottom of the pile as they claim the most oppressed status, trampling on women as they go, calling us bigots and transphobes when we argue back. Thank you for standing up for women.
REPLY Carol Dansereau says: April 22, 2023 at 2:57 am Thanks for this great statement. It is badly needed. Especially since so-called “trans rights” activists majorly hijack the fight for racial justice as cover for their agenda. Black Lives Matter protests were used to get crowds to chant “black trans lives matter.” The now-despicable ACLU made a point of referring to the men who competed against women in high school sports in Connecticut as black while somehow failing to notice the black women harmed by them. A PR strategy document for the Gender Cult explicitly talks about using race to push the Cult’s agenda. See the discussion of these issues in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Transgender Galaxy at https://caroldansereau.substack.com/p/hitchhikers-guide-part-ii-hitchhiking
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REPLY Nolly says: April 22, 2023 at 8:10 am As a white woman, I support and thank you for this statement. All power to you, recognition of biological reality is critical to your safety and empowerment. Resist the forced teaming. The forced teaming with race was a stated tactic of extreme trans activists (essentially MRAs) after their forced teaming with LGB groups....
AJ says: April 22, 2023 at 11:27 am How refreshing to read a clear argument amidst so much emoting. All ideas do not carry equal weight and factual evidence matters, especially when deciding policies that affect over half of the population. Gender Recognition Certificates will allow men to be placed in women’s prisons, hospital wards, sports teams etc without disclosing their biological identity and all women; black, white, gay or straight, should be very angry that governments are willing to place them in harms way to silence a tiny number of men.
REPLY Jazzy says: April 22, 2023 at 11:53 am I was neither for or against gender ideology a few years ago. I really didn’t care what one wanted to identify as. Then I started hearing “trans women” and their supporters say “ If black women can be women, then any one can be women”. The misogynoir and disrespect of black womanhood required to make this a rallying cry is absolutely disgusting. Questioning our womanhood has been an on going thing for centuries, hence Soujourner Truth “ain’t I a woman “ speech. I can’t support any movements who’s tenant is to strip me of my womanhood to claim theirs.
I’m guessing this isn’t a liberal black female organization.
Wow! Someone needed to say that!
When I copied this, it included comments, some of which I included.
Biden’s war on women.
If there is a site for them, be sure the Far Left will hack it and bring it down. They hate any discussion or debate. They believe they are the final authority on everything.
Racists. Or is it genderists. It is either XX or XY!
They are right (both for some good reasons they give, and also for some bad), but at least, in general, their main position is the correct one.
And their affirmative action scam goes out the window.
Joe loves young men who pretend to be little girls. It’s his sexual fetish
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