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UK: Feminist MP Who Campaigned Against Men-Only Clubs Joins Gender-Segregated Muslim March

Brett T.
Brett T.  |  11:00 PM on September 09, 2026

Remember at the end of last month when our own Sam J. reported that feminist icon New York Gov. Kathy Hochul had decided to slip into a hijab for a speech? "Pandering to a bunch of Muslim men just weeks before the 25th anniversary of the worst terror attack on human soil ever is not the best look, Kathy," Sam wrote. Hochul shot back that she was just being courteous, which is more than she could say for her critics.

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In the U.K., there's been quite a scandal brewing about Stella Creasy, a proud feminist Labour MP who had campaigned against men-only clubs. Didn't she then take part in a gender-separated Muslim march to pander to Muslim voters?

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… exclusion that holds women back

• Segregated religious parade = valid tradition women choose

• Same spaces for women in elite institutions, separate spaces when it’s a Muslim event…

J.K. Rowling weighed in with a very lengthy post, so strap in:

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… ‘old-fashioned feminist’ who is ‘still fighting the patriarchy’. She’s more than once publicly defined herself against me (and my reaction was not to accuse her of leading a mob, even though I was probably averaging a dozen death threats a day at the point when the article below appeared.)

I thought it might be instructive for those of us who don’t share Creasy’s brand of ‘feminism’ to examine her campaigning record, so we can learn to do better.

Creasy wants women admitted to the male-only, exclusive, London-based private members Garrick Club, a change that would benefit rather privileged women like Creasy. Creasy is a mother who wants better accommodations for working mothers, a change that would benefit Creasy. Creasy takes selfies at a men-only Muslim march because that reminds everyone how non-racist she is, which benefits Creasy. Creasy asserts that ‘trans women are women’, which keeps her in good odour with her party’s most aggressive activists, and benefits Creasy.

However, keeping cross-dressing heterosexual men out of nurses’ changing rooms doesn’t benefit Creasy, because Creasy has never had to mop up other people’s piss, blood and vomit at work. Challenging the notion that a male basketball player becomes a girl if he says he is doesn’t benefit Creasy, who has no sporting ambitions. Speaking up against the patriarchy as practised by non-white men doesn’t benefit Creasy, who wants those selfie-opportunities. Criticising an ideological movement that persecutes, harasses and openly threatens women who don’t believe some women have penises wouldn't benefit Creasy, because she's already fully-signed up to self-id, where any man who says he's a woman must be taken at his word.

As the late Gloria Steinem said: ‘“Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere.’

Creasy the patriarchy-challenger is provably more than happy to cosy up to men and misogynist movements when it suits her public profile and career advancement, no matter the harms those men might be causing less privileged women. By Steinem’s definition, what Stella espouses is not feminism, but Creasyism, and I suggest the emblem for this brave new rights movement should be an indignant parakeet with severely ruffled feathers.

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Here's the selfie from the men-only Muslim march that Creasy attended:

"… fantastic!"

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Unlikely, seeing as Afghanistan bans girls from secondary school on.

She's been getting dragged since that post, and she deserves every bit of it. "Feminist."

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