For Saying ‘Only Women Can Have Babies’ UK Charity Spokesperson forced to resign
Written by Sunny Unachi on 6th November 2019
After being harassed by transgender activists over a Facebook post in which she said only women can have babies, a charity’s national spokesperson and birth coach in the United Kingdom has been forced to resign from her position.
Lynsey McCarthy-Calvert, 45, was forced to quit her spokesperson position with Doula UK, a non-profit charity organization of trained non-medical professionals who guide and help women as they give birth, according to The Daily Mail.
“I am angry and sad,’ she told The Mail. “I was effectively ostracized for saying I am a woman and so are my clients.”
“I have been very disappointed by Doula UK’s response. The leadership are paralyzed by not wanting to upset transgender rights activists,” she continued. “They have fallen over themselves to acquiesce to their demands.”
The newspaper reported it all started when Cancer Research UK dropped the word ‘women’ from its smear test campaign, instead saying screening was “relevant for everyone aged 25-64 with a cervix.”
In response, McCarthy-Calvert posted an image on her Facebook page of negligee-clad woman somersaulting underwater, writing: “I am not a cervix owner. I am not a “menstruator. I am not a feeling. I am not defined by wearing a dress and lipstick. I am a woman: an adult human female.”
Beneath the image, she wrote: “Women birth all the people, make up half the population, but less than a third of the seats in the House of Commons are occupied by us.”
It was then a Facebook user accused her of using “absolutely disgusting language.” And stated: “Also, you seem to be forgetting that not only women birth children.”
Then around 20 trans activists wrote a letter to the Doula organization complaining about McCarthy-Calvert’s Facebook post. They said that the post contained several “trans-exclusionary comments” including the description of a woman as an “adult human female.”
After a four-month investigation, Doula’s board of directors concluded the post did go against the organization’s guidelines of inclusion.n
In addition to resigning her position, McCarthy-Calvert has also left Doula, telling The Mail, the organization went along with the demands from a small number of activists and failed to stand up for women’s rights.
