Rennes, France: The Pride Parade should be rebranded ‘The Shame’ Parade.
Lesbophobia and misogyny at the Pride organization
Femmes entre elles ("Women among themselves"), a single-sex association for lesbian and bisexual women, was excluded from the Marche des Fiertés ("The Pride ") precisely because it is a single-sex women's association.
"Femmes entre elles" is a single-sex women's association based in Rennes that offers activities and events for homosexual and bisexual women, from carpooling to recreational activities. The association has been in existence for over 30 years and is actively involved in civil rights movements such as women's rights and gay rights.
The 27th of May, Femmes entre elles received an email informing them of their exclusion from the Marche des Fiertés de Rennes on the grounds that the association's statutes state that it is "open to all women born female who wish to be included". Clearly, for Iskis, the LGBTI+ Centre of Rennes, the desire of homosexual women to gather together is unacceptable and requires their exclusion from an event primarily dedicated to the visibility of… homosexual people.
In her statement of 19 May, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls used the expression "the needs of women born female", I’m just saying.
Above is the email sent by the LGBTI+ Centre to Femmes entre elles and forwarded to me. The reasons given are the association's statutes, which state that it is a single-sex association ("any woman born female" let's not be afraid of pleonasms these days) and alleged "remarks made to some volunteers at the Marche des Fiertés village last year". Couldn't they be more vague? In other words, an unsubstantiated accusation, not a concrete element as required by the Charter (annexed to the article) to justify the refusal of a partnership. What allegations? A mystery. Femmes entre elles will never know. Perhaps one of them had the misfortune to say: "My granddaughter loves Harry Potter," which, through the prism of transactivism, became: "She said trans people should be exterminated."
What is a woman? What is homosexuality? For the LGTBI+ Centre, it's a safe bet that homosexuality is "a transphobic genital preference", according to the dogma of the new religion of industrial societies, which seeks to impose a metaphysical belief system on the entire population, but especially on women, and lesbians in particular.
What is inclusivity? In the same vein, inclusivity is the requirement to respond to men's demands to access women's spaces. Inclusivity is men's business. Inclusivity is a transvestite. If you were to remove the glitter from the word, what you would find underneath is male coercive control.
Inclusivity consists in imposing the presence of men on homosexual women. Forty years ago, men would say to them: "You haven't met the right one yet" or, more crudely, "that's because you haven't taken my penis yet". Today they tell them: ‘My penis is a female penis.’
These kinds of homophobic discourses and demands, enforced by rape culture and actively fostered and reinforced by pornography (the sissy porn that autogynephilic men are particularly fond of), are the hallmark of transgender activism, and are not shared by ‘old school’ transidentified men known as 'transsexuals', who make no pretense of actually being women and are perfectly aware of living according to the socio-sexual stereotypes of their culture. Transsexual males don't try to impose their presence on homosexual women, which is probably why they were often accepted into their spaces before the new generation of gender fundamentalists made claims for privileges.
Transidentified "transsexual" men don't say that they are actually women, but that they "live as women". They live according to the (patriarchal and misogynistic) socio-sexual role imposed on women. However, woman is not a misogynist stereotype. Woman refers to a material reality. Women exist outside of men's minds, whether those men suffer from sexual dysphoria and have a strong desire to be of the opposite sex, or have discovered a compulsive paraphilia while masturbating in their mother's underwear as teenagers.
Transsexuals are also harmed by these transgender activists, who support a classic patriarchal ideology of sexist stereotypes. They have even dedicated an insult to them: "truscum" ("real scum" in reference to the claim of "real transidentity"). For males who have socially transitioned and undergone radical cosmetic surgery (inaccurately called "sex reassignment") in the hope of alleviating their feelings of sexual dysphoria (wanting to "be" what they imagine themselves to be of the opposite sex), transidentity is closely associated with feelings of dysphoria; an unacceptable narrative for transgender activists.
It's also worth noting that the Rennes LGTBI+ Centre uses in its charter (attached at the end of this article) a term associated with the promotion of the sexual exploitation of women, "whorephobia", which often goes hand in hand with men's demands for access to the bodies of women who don't desire them. Like "transphobia", it is a transvestite word that displaces and perverts the original intent. Lesbians and survivors of prostitution don't "hate prostituted women", they denounce the pimping of the men who sell them and the men who buy them (euphemistically "clients of prostitution" meaning "rapists").
France has an abolitionist law to help women victims of human trafficking and vulnerable women in the grip of a pimp partner to leave prostitution. But the financial and material resources allocated to this program are so ridiculous as to beg the question of institutional sabotage. The insult "whorephobic" is intended to hide the reality denounced by abolitionist feminists and to construct straw dolls against whom it becomes legitimate to use violence. Just as the term "transphobic" is applied to lesbians who want to be together, thus legitimizing violence against them.
The cancellation of Femmes entre elles follows the vandalism by transgender activists of the LGBT pub "La Part des Anges", an inclusive pub run by a lesbian who had the audacity to sell the book "Quand les filles deviennent des garçons" ("When Girls Become Boys") by Marie-Jo Bonnet, the historic French MLF activist, also a lesbian, historian and author of several books. This displeased the gender extremists.
Therefore they decided to make the owner's life a living hell by subjecting her to the usual treatment of gender-ideological apostates: harassment, defamation, vandalism of her establishment, disclosure of her home address and death threats.
This is not just a cultural war between LGBT generations. It is the same war that has been waged against women in patriarchal societies since the Bronze Age. It's about men accustomed to the privilege of naming reality, brought up with the power to define themselves and the correlative power to define what women should be. It's a conflict born of the male entitlement to refuse to let women self-define, self-determine and choose the people with whom they want to organize politically; to refuse to let women delimit the contours of their political movement; to refuse to let women exclude men from their private, political, affective and intellectual spaces; and to refuse to let women gather together and realize that they have an autonomous existence independent of the ideas and fantasies in men's heads.
It's a classic patriarchal dynamic: transactivism is nothing more than a camouflaged movement for men's sexual privilege to access women's bodies.
In other words, it is a movement for men's sexual rights.
Femmes entre elles have committed a 'hate crime' against men by excluding them from their tiny safe space, so men (and their devoted handmaidens) are punishing them by banishing them from a mainstream event once intended for homosexuals and appropriated by heterosexual men.
Edit, the 6th of June
Women amongst themselves officially complained about their exclusion on the basis of the association’s statutes “women born female” to the Elected representative of Rennes, Ariane Cousin, ‘Anti-discrimination officer’ for the town of Rennes.
Her answer begs the question: are sexism and homophobia still considered to be forms of discrimination of some sort?
She wrote to Women Amongst themselves in her email of the 2nd of June :
"I understand and agree with the reaction of Iskis [the LGBT centre].
The TERFy behaviour manifested by the association Women Amongst Themselves has no place in the Pride parade, which is above all inclusive".
Keep in mind that "inclusive" means "catering to the desires of men" and that's why lesbians are excluded.
Ethical charter of the Pride :
