Endometriosis South Coast has chosen a man who lives as a woman to be their CEO, and it’s raised the hackles on several backs as a result. But not all of the arguments for outrage make sense to me.
Endometriosis South Coast (ESC) announced on X, formerly known as Twitter, that Labour activist Steph Richards would be leading the organisation.
Ms Richards has previously claimed trans people can change their biological sex ‘a little bit’ and boasted about running a ‘safe space’ where men could dress up as women in secret, including as ‘schoolgirls’.
ECS’s announcement of Ms Richards’ appointment also came with a statement next to her image that said: ‘Isn’t it ridiculous I’ve got to my 40s before any medical professionals even mentioned endometriosis.’
Trans women, who are biological males that identify as women, do not and cannot have a uterus and, therefore, can never suffer from endometriosis.
I am not moved by this at all. Adults can play dress up all they want, and no one should care. Nor should they care if the CEO of an Airline has ever been a pilot. I would bet that a majority of doctors who diagnose and successfully treat Endometriosis are men, as are researchers funded by wealthy men, who help them look for better cures or treatments. I doubt the researchers are refusing the money or the doctors are rejecting the results, treatments, or cures.
The only divergence from this line of thought with any value is whether the non-profit insists you view their new CEO as a woman, in which case, the crime is denying an actual woman a job by giving it to a man in a dress.
On that point,
Kellie-Jay Keen, founder of Let Women Speak movement, was critical of the language used by the charity and said it ‘ignored women’ and branded the appointment ‘barmy.’
‘Everyone has lost their collective minds,’ she added. ‘The losers are women who suffered from endometriosis who have to rely on a charity that won’t call them “women” but “people” but who will call a man a women.
‘This is an absolute disaster and affront to all women who suffer from endometriosis, which is about 10 percent of women. It’s really insulting.
‘I think it’s doubly insulting they will use female language for him but not for a suffer the condition.’
This has legs, and they might be hairy and talk about gender confusion. She’s a she, but actual women with the condition in question are genderless flesh to be referred to in sexless language that contradicts the nature of a condition you can’t get absent the thing women have and men don’t—a womb. And there are easily tens of thousands of actual women who are as or more capable – whether they’ve suffered from Endometriosis or not (if that’s another axe worth grinding) who could put a womb back into the job of CEO.
If you think that matters.
