Feminist Question Time with speakers from USA, UK, Turkey, Mexico

Women's Declaration International (WDI) Feminist Question Time is our weekly online webinars. It is attended by a global feminist and activist audience of between 200-300. The main focus is how gender ideology is harming the rights of women and girls. You can see recordings of previous panels on our YouTube Channel. WDI is the leading  global organisation defending women’s sex-based rights against the threats posed by gender identity ideology. There is more information on the website womensdeclaration.com where you will find our Declaration on Women’s Sex-based rights, which has been signed by more 30,000 people from 157 countries and is supported by 418 organisations.

This week’s speakers:

Kara Dansky - USA
The American GRA - The US Congress is considering a bill called the Global Respect Act (not coincidentally, GRA). It would bar entry to the US of "foreign people" who engaged in "other flagrant denial of the right to life, liberty, or the security of [LGBTQI] persons," or "acted as an agent of or on behalf of a foreign person" in doing so. This might be a way of denying entry to the USA to those who do not believe in gender identity ideology.

Bio: Kara Dansky is a public speaker, writer, and consultant who is committed to protecting the rights, privacy, and safety of women and girls on the basis of sex in law and throughout society. In November 2021, she published the ground-breaking work The Abolition of Sex: How the ‘Transgender’ Agenda Harms Women and Girls. She currently serves as President of the U.S. chapter of Women’s Declaration International (WDI), which seeks to promote the Declaration on Women's Sex-Based Rights. She served on the board of the Women's Liberation Front from 2016 to 2020. Kara is also an attorney with a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a B.A. from the Johns Hopkins University, and an extensive background in criminal justice law and policy.

Emma Bateman - UK
Green Party - Green party position on women's sex based rights

Bio: co-chair of the Green Party of England and Wale’s women’s committee

Arussi Unda - Mexico
Sexual and reproductive exploitation in Mexico: The only political scenario when they suddenly know what a woman is. - The Supreme Court, political parties and the President of the Equality Commission are pushing “the women’s right to sell their bodies” in the worst time to be a women in Mexico ever.

Bio: Woman speaker of “Las Brujas Del Mar” (Witches of the Sea) feminist collective from Veracruz, Mexico.

Hale Akay - Turkey
Women confronting trans(queer) feminism in Turkey - I will talk on behalf of, but not as a representative of, a group of women who are being intimidated, harassed and threatened first on social media, now even in IWD demonstration, because they oppose transfeminism in Turkey. I will talk about the dynamics that made intersectional feminism as the mainstream approach, how the debate around gender identity and trans rights escalated in the past three years and pushed some feminists to organize among themselves to resist this ideological capture.

Bio: I'm a former academic, now working as an independent researcher in the UK. I worked in human rights organisations for years both as a voluntary and a professional. For the last 3 years, I have been active especially on social media in debates concerning trans rights.

For more information: www.womensdeclaration.com