Witch thrown out by Druids for being "transphobic"
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Lilith — 10 months ago(June 01, 2025 02:20 AM)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/witch-thrown-out-by-druids-after-being-accused-of-transphobia/ar-AA1FQmsk?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=f72c2036c5084d7989a8e884917fac1b&ei=27
A witch has claimed she was thrown off a Druid training course amid allegations that she was “transphobic” in a row over women’s rights.
Angela Howard claimed she joined the British Druid Order (BDO) in 2020 to find “spiritual healing”
after being sexually assaulted by a trans woman
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Ms Howard, 48, said she was later “knighted” as a “warrior princess” at Stonehenge and began training as a student “bard”, which is a division of modern Druidry.
But after the Supreme Court ruled that transgender women were not legally women in April, Howard claimed she was banned from continuing her training and had her BDO membership revoked because she supported the exclusion of trans women from single-sex spaces for women.
Ms Howard also claimed she was “defamed” and branded “transphobic” by members of the religious advocacy group the Pagan Federation.
According to The Times, Ms Howard said she responded to this statement by commenting that there were situations in which women needed single-sex spaces, citing changing rooms, women’s refuges and prisons. She referred to her own experience of being sexually assaulted by a trans woman. She claimed her comments were later deleted, and that she was blocked from viewing the contents of the Facebook page after she criticised an article describing the court ruling as “a triumph for bigotry”.
This is why we need single-sex spaces. Now, when a woman gets raped by a man, despite being the victim of assault, she gets blamed and banned. "Phobia" speaks of an "irrational fear". I would say she has quite the rationale for feeling fear. She ends up getting re-traumatized all over again and the perpetrators are being held up with valour. So much for protecting women and caring about women's rights.
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Phaenon — 10 months ago(June 01, 2025 02:51 AM)
Only
married men over the age of 30, and who own land that has people who work upon it, should have a vote Lilith.
Only in a world like that could everyone see what bullshit they talk when
everyone
has an actual vote
Ding Dong
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Lilith — 10 months ago(June 01, 2025 03:08 AM)
I simply love JK Rowling for holding the line. Even the trans friends that I have are in agreement with this. They've overplayed their hand. This was a complete non-issue before.
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Ⲥⲏⳕⲥⲕⲁⲃⲟⲟⲙ — 10 months ago(June 01, 2025 03:53 AM)
I knew a girl years ago who used to be in a coven, and the type of abuse the women had to suffer would make your hair stand on end. She used to tell me about the torture they were put through by the male members, and it was horrific.
Remind me to tell you about it later.
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Lilith — 10 months ago(June 01, 2025 01:20 PM)
There are some covens where sex and being naked is part of the experience. There are others where none of that happens. It's terrible that your friend had to experience any kind of abuse, especially while practicing her faith.
I'll msg you.
"Your emotional state is not my responsibility." – Warren Smith