The British Embassy in China invited its 'regular transvestite' Elizabeth Stride earlier this month
Kemi Badenoch chided the British Embassy in Finland for inviting a trans activist who claimed “turfs” were racist.
The Helsinki Consulate invited Dr. Julian Honkasalo, a researcher in trans history to speak with staff and UK Ambassador Theresa Babber about the “diverse, controversial and well-funded group of participants that make up the antigender movement” to mark June as Global Pride Month.
But The Telegraph may report that Dr. Honkasalo, who describes himself as gender nonconformist, attacked “turfs” — radical feminists who advocate exclusivity, a term widely considered an insult to those who hold gender-critical views — for that they echoed “white feminism”. in a research paper just two months earlier.
The newspaper also found examples this month of a transvestite singing the Titanic tune at the British Embassy in China, and of the British Ambassador to the US, Dame Karen Pierce, merrily waving a Pride flag in a feather headdress during an LGBTQ official visit+ ; rally in Washington, D.C.
Kemi Badenoch believes the rhetoric used is “completely useless and only fuels resentment on both sides” . Photo: CHRIS J RATCLIFFE/POOL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Leading the backlash, a source close to Ms. Badenoch, the business secretary, said the minister for women and equality believes “this kind of rhetoric is utterly unhelpful and only fuels resentment on both sides.”
A source told The Telegraph that the minister believes “our overseas embassies should be much more concerned about who they invite to speak to their staff.”
Promoting its June 19 event, the British Embassy in Helsinki tweeted that “Pride month is in full swing”, Ambassador Ms Babbir “indicated in our panel discussion on the antigender movement [that] Pride runs all year.”
Dr Honkasalo of the University of Helsinki also told embassy officials that the “anti-gender movement”, which he previously called “anti-trans groups claiming to be feminists” in the UK, is “hard to dispute”.
Tweet from the British Embassy in Washington with Pride Credit employees: Twitter
Embassy officials were told that “to confront anti-gender actors, we need a broad coalition of grassroots solidarity, given that most are #diverse.”
But in an April research paper titled “Transwoman Letter Clubs, Public Concern, and Radical Erotic Politics,” Dr. Honkasalo used the controversial term “turfs,” which has been used by activists to describe figures such as writer J.K. Rowling. who defend biological sex as binary and immutable in defiance of calls for limitless gender self-identification.
He wrote: “As Pearce et al. (2020) have shown, in the context of the UK in particular, Turf’s panic that insists that trans women are sexually predatory (eg Raymond, 1979).
“This rhetoric portrays the white, feminine, heterosexual or lesbian “biological woman” as a fragile and vulnerable subject in need of protection, while racially and gender deviant bodies appearing in public places are conceptualized as a sexual threat.
“As Ulrika Dahl (2017) and others have pointed out, a feminist discourse centered on the fragility and vulnerability of white femininity is also prevalent in much of white liberal feminism (Dahl and Volcano, 2009; Pearce et al. 2020; Snorton, 2017).< /p>
“Thus, Turf's rhetoric draws on a long tradition of transmisogyny and racism inherent in feminist theory.”
Drag queen Elizabeth Stride meets with British Embassy staff in Beijing, China Finland by Brendan Clark-Smith.
The Conservative MP said: “Calling people who care about same-sex spaces and basic women's rights 'turfs' shows how out of touch with reality these gender extremists are. We shouldn't be entertaining them with taxpayer money.”
Earlier this month, British Embassy Beijing employee Emily Hodson tweeted photos of them “an event with our drag queen resident Elizabeth Stride” for Pride Month, which included ” a farewell to the Titanic and a few poignant words of love” in front of a screen showing Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie “Titanic.” /p>
“Where taxpayers' resources should be focused on government priorities, they have too often been preoccupied with identity politics and evoked causes to help them climb the corporate ladder. .”
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Department declined to provide a transcript of Dr. Honkasalo's conversation with embassy officials and did not respond to requests for comment.
Dr. Honkasalo was contacted . for a comment.
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