Oxfam retracts video vilifying ‘TERFs’ for Delight month
OFFICIAL STATEMENT: pic.twitter.com/NbYKspgIuS
— Oxfam Worldwide (@Oxfam) June 6, 2023
After sharing an animated video selling Delight Month depicting a red-haired feminine character sporting a “TERF” badge, Oxfam has retracted the video and apologized. The imagery sparked complaints that the girl particularly was meant to depict creator JK Rowling.
Girls’s rights campaigner Maya Forstater tweeted:
“Demonizing safeguarding, demonizing older girls, selling double-mastectomies to kids, bulk harassment of gender -critical workers. Oxfam’s entry to the worst take for #PrideMonth2023 is stunning”
For UnHerd, journalist Julie Bindel reported the story of an Oxfam worker named Maria who was subjected to an inside investigation for requesting proof of Rowling’s “transphobia.” Bindel writes:
“What Maria endured is a part of a wider woke tradition within the charitable sector, the place feminine workers are silenced and handled like bigots for believing that sex-based rights matter”
Good attempt deleting it, Oxfam. The web is without end. pic.twitter.com/khiME1Ipjj
— Frances Weetman (@francesweetman) June 6, 2023
In response to backlash on-line, the charity mentioned they have been making an attempt to “make an vital level about the true hurt attributable to transphobia.” The brand new video nonetheless states that “LGBTQIA+” individuals world wide are “preyed on by hate teams on-line and offline” however doesn’t function the “TERF” imagery.
We’re posting the up to date video beneath, please re-share to point out solidarity with the LGBTQIA+ group. None of us are secure till all of us are secure. This June, we name you to #ProtectThePride! pic.twitter.com/1iN4nFzmiX
— Oxfam Worldwide (@Oxfam) June 6, 2023
