SEATTLE—Women’s Declaration International’s (WDI) USA Chapter will be hosting Standing Up for Women and Girls in Washington forum at the Seattle Public Library, Level 4 Multi-purpose Conference Room, on Sunday, November 17, at 7 p.m. Registration for the event is required for entry.
WDI is an explicitly non-partisan feminist group created by women, for women, and led by a group of volunteer women dedicated to protecting women’s “sex-based rights, and challenges the discrimination we experience from the replacement of the category of sex with that of ‘gender identity.” its website states.
Speaking at the event will be former WDI USA President Kara Dansky, April Morrow, leader of Sovereign Women Speak, political activist Susanna Keilman, women’s rights activist Amy Sousa, environmental activist Carol Dansereau, and Elle Palmer will share her story on transitioning.
Speaker Line Up
- Lawyer, author, and former WDI USA President Kara Dansky will focus on the Lynnwood-based Olympus Spa case and the importance of women-only spaces.
- April Morrow, leader of Sovereign Women Speak, will speak about how women’s prisons in Washington state are no longer safe for women due to the inclusion of men.
- Veteran, advocate, and former political candidate Susanna Keilman will discuss the importance of spas to Korean culture and how this case has been received within that community.
- Women’s rights activist, writer, lecturer, and educator Amy Sousa will focus on body image/body dissociation, gender clinics, and the harms of the DSM diagnosis.
- Detransitioner Elle Palmer will speak about her experience with transition.
- Environmental activist Carol Dansereau will speak on the damage done to women’s rights, K-12 indoctrination, and the atrocity of pediatric sex change.
Attendees are asked to utilize the Seattle Public Library parking lot. Security will be at the event.
Court House Rally
WDI will then host a rally/presser at 10 a.m. on Monday, November 18, in front of the Western District Court of Washington located at 700 Stewart Street in Seattle, to provide an update on the Olympus Spa court case.
The WDI USA Chapter submitted an amicus brief (otherwise known as a friend of the court) in April to the U.S. 9th District Court of Appeals in defense of Olympus Spa, a Lynnwood-based business currently entangled in a human rights commission battle.
Author: Mario Lotmore
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Capitol Hill Pride and Lynnwood Pride will be joining the LGBTQAI’s community “Love Fest” demonstration all day Sun. Nov 17th and the Seattle Public Library Employee’s protest at 6pm at the Seattle Public Library on 4th Ave in Seattle to counter the anti-Transgender groups meeting and in support of the Transgender community.
The Directors of Capitol Hill and Lynnwood Pride feel it is highly irresponsible for the Seattle Library to rent to anti-Transgender groups that have a documented past of incitement and violence and are campaigning on behalf of Lynnwood’s Olympus Spa that was found by WA State Supreme Court to have discriminated against a Transgender female.
It should be noted, the Southern Poverty Law Center considers WDI – Women’s Declaration International part of an “anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience network” and the largest U.S. feminist organization, the National Organization for Women, describes WDI as “anti-trans bigots disguised as feminists.”
This meeting by anti-Transgender groups directly contradicts Seattle’s commitment to diversity and inclusion as well as insulting to the transgender and LGBTQAI community that have fought for years for awareness, recognition and equality.
The very fact that the library has to evacuate staff, move the meeting to after hours and bring in security should be just cause that they need to cancel the meeting for public safety but as of today they have not.
Hence Love conquers Hate and we show up.
Media Contacts
Charlette LeFevre and Philip Lipson
She,Her, He/Him
Directors, Capitol Hill Pride
Directors, Lynnwood Pride
206-523-6348