UK: Trans-Identified Male Appointed To Top Endometriosis Charity Role

By Reduxx Team

A trans-identified male has been handed the parliamentary engagement role for a charity that represents women with endometriosis. “Steph” Richards had previously resigned from the role as CEO for the same charity in 2024 due to blowback from gender critical women.

Richards, a 73-year-old male, was given the new role at Endometriosis South Coast this week, and will spend his time lobbying in Parliament with elected British representatives on behalf of the charity.

The charity describes themselves as an “inclusive” group designed to support those who suffer from the disease, which affects close to 10% of women. The disease results in tissue similar to the uterus lining growing outside of the uterus, which causes fertility problems and severe pain.

Due to the uterine nature of disease, it only affects females, but the charity has asserted that the “disease does not discriminate,” and any claims that only women are affected are “scientifically” inaccurate.

“It affects people of all genders, including trans men, non-binary, and intersex individuals,” the charity said in a statement, defending the employment of Richards to the position, and claimed that effective advocacy for the disease does not depend on having any personal experience with the condition. Richards himself has described all criticism of his posting as “transphobic.”

Former Labour Party and now independent MP Rosie Duffield, who represents Canterbury, said it was completely “inappropriate” to have selected Richards for the role. “I am really uncomfortable that, of all of the tens of thousands of women affected, someone who is biologically male is coming to speak about this in parliament,” Duffield said, adding that Richards “can have no possible lived experience of this condition.” Duffield went on to argue that there were far more women who actually lived with the disease and therefore would be better placed to speak on the issue in Parliament.

“This is a senior spokesperson’s role, so it’s somebody speaking on behalf of an awful lot of sufferers, and you can’t, in my opinion, do that if you have no possible awareness of what women’s bodies go through,” she concluded.

Another critic of Richards has been Amanda Craig, a novelist who has suffered an acute form of the condition since her forties.

Craig branded the appointment as an “absolutely ridiculous decision,” adding that it was “fundamentally discordant and wrong” to place a male in that position, “even if it comes from a good place and wants to help women.” She argued that since doctors often dismiss women as being “neurotic” for wanting to receive a proper diagnosis, that this is therefore something “so specific to the female experience” that needs to be “represented by someone with lived experience of this horrible disease.”

In November 2023, Richards, who was a women’s officer within the Labour Party, was appointed as the CEO of the charity, receiving widespread backlash, not just because he was a trans-identified man, but because of repeated documentation of his concerning behaviour.

Just a month before his appointment, he posted on Twitter that he had gone up to a woman in public, later revealed to be academic Julia Long, for wearing a “t-shirt” with the slogan “Adult Human Female” on it. He then shamed her for refusing to engage with him.

Further social media incidents were then uncovered following his appointment, which showed a serious disdain for women’s single-sex spaces.

“See me in the changing room, see me in the loo, see me in the supermarket buying flowers,” Richards wrote in a 2021 tweet. “See me in the swimming pool, see me in the pub, see me on the sports field taking part in games. See you in hell if you are a #TERF – nothing will stop me strutting my stuff!”

Others identified Richards as having protested against Europe’s largest feminist conference in Portsmouth. “Say NO to hate,” Richards wrote. “Always happy to talk.”

Within his blog, Translucent, Richards revealed a history of cross-dressing from a very young age. “My sister got promoted to the newly built bedroom, and finally, I got my own bedroom. This was very convenient because my sister’s first bedroom had very loose and broken floorboards, meaning I had a hiding place for all the clothes I had started stealing from her. At night, I would remove her clothes from under the floorboards, try them on, and fantasise that I was going to grow into a beautiful young woman.”

He further admitted that he then stole his sister’s clothes at the age of twelve or thirteen, and walked through his village wearing them.

Richards also is a proponent of using puberty blockers on young children to stop them from developing secondary sex characteristics, as “childhood” like womanhood and manhood, is merely a social construct. He theorizes that he identifies as transgender because he wasn’t exposed to enough testosterone in the womb and therefore developed a “female brain,” despite the fact that this has been repeatedly debunked by scientific researchers.

Perhaps most egregiously, he told a young man who allegedly had been sexually exploited as a child by predatory adults at LGBT Youth Scotland, to “grow up,” because “no one groomed you,” even though he testified that older men would provide him with “special privileges,” cigarettes and alcohol before he was of age.

Richards left the charity a few months later, after the outpouring of pressure from concerned women’s rights advocates.

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