FQT 11 December 2021

Feminist Question Time with speakers from USA and Ireland

Women's Human Rights Campaign (WHRC) 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.

This week’s speakers:

Jesika Gonzalez @TERFCollective - USA - An overview of the nature, purpose, and work of the TERF Collective as well as thoughts on the growth of our movement for the abolition of trans ideology.

Jesika Gonzalez is an ordinary working-class woman and the founder of the TERF Collective, an organization pursuing guerilla approaches to fighting trans ideology. TERF Collective hosts semi-weekly chat sessions with gender-critical women and radical feminists from all over the world called TERF Nights. There, she joins together decades-long activists and those newly peaked in wide-ranging conversations. They discuss the impact of gender ideology, protest actions, and participants are invited to imagine a future free of the impositions and requirements of the patriarchy.

Beth Stelzer - USA - the IOC abandoned women, now what? The recent IOC decision, what it means to female athletes, and how we can move forward.

Beth is a homemaker, wife, mom, and armature powerlifter from Minnesota. As the founder of Save Women's Sports she has traveled throughout the USA l working to protect women's sports. In just a couple years Save Women's Sports has grown from a website to an international coalition that has influenced legislation.

Miriam Kivlehan - Ireland - A short summary of the backstory to the current sex and gender conversations in Ireland (for newcomers), followed by an overview of the different groups that have recently emerged, and finishing with a mention of the public consultation that is currently underway to Review the suite of Equality Legislation

Over the past 30 years I have been involved in feminist action inboth a voluntary and paid capacity: Abortion rights campaign(s); Facilitating development of new womens groups; Access to education; Media Literacy training; Community Broadcasting; Marriage Equality; and Nordic Model Campaign. I have worked as a Community Worker; Local Development Manager; Radio Station Manager; Political Advisor; and currently working as Policy and Communication Manager with a national Domestic Violence NGO.

For more information: www.womensdeclaration.com