There are some people in the movement to fight the erasure of women’s rights, and attacks on the health of children, by gender identity politics, who’d get a lot more done if they didn’t spend their time witch hunting other women as the “real Nazis,” to deflect criticism by TRAs.
Gender activists’ allegations about all of us—make no mistake that pointing to another woman isn’t going to make them hate any of us any less—predate the formation of any current group of feminist campaigners. This cartoon is from 2014. Sound familiar?
Gender identity groups get millions in funding and strategic support from international organizations, and then also obsess about where small-dollar funds come from to support relatively tiny feminist projects.
They spend all their time asking, ‘No, but why do you *really* want to fight changes to the definition of sex under the law, and the cosmetic sterilization of children?’
Organizations that spend millions on senior staff salaries will ask that about volunteer-run women’s groups.
Some women in our movement, instead of rounding on this as a bad faith, nonsense criticism, leveraged by extremely wealthy men to delegitimize women’s rights advocacy, just turn it around on other women to throw around baseless, unfalsifiable accusations of sinister motives.
They just keep asking, basically, ‘No, but why do you *really* want to fight changes to the definition of sex under the law, and oppose the cosmetic sterilization of children?’
Any woman who has any success getting the message across is inevitably accused, from within the movement, of bigotry, of having a pure profit motive, of ‘selling out.’
You know what selling out looks like? Taking a six-figure salary from HRC or the ACLU to demonize feminists.
You know what selling out looks like? It looks like working at the SPLC, one of the wealthiest nonprofits in the country, and working to put men in women’s prisons, because “civil rights.”
You know what selling out looks like? Taking a peerage for working as hard as a person possibly can to demonize other lesbians for saying no to men on dating apps.
Gender activists will talk to, and work with, just about anyone to advance their interests. Feminists will sometimes barely work with each other, in the frenzied quest to take cruel, empty concern trolling from TRAs and try to find the woman it “really” applies to.
Acting as volunteer Witchfinder Privates isn’t going to spare any of us a kicking. It’s not going to make people like any of us. More importantly, it’s not going to help any of the people who are counting on us to be politically effective.
The vast majority of people polled in the US and UK about gender identity, and probably everywhere else that hasn’t been polled, still believe in biological sex. Most people still believe in sex-based rights & preserving women’s sports. Most people still oppose sterilizing kids.
That majority of the public aren’t currently getting much in the way of political representation. If they’re people of faith, *maybe* there’s an organization that presents their point of view and is aligned with their beliefs. If they’re secular, they’ve got almost nowhere to go.
If you’re a feminist and you care about this issue, please step out of the shadows, please step up to the responsibility of working to represent a sensible, majority interest in preserving a reasonable understanding of sex-based rights and child safeguarding.
No one needs an SJW-lite witch hunting squad from any of us. Wokesters, but the expurgated version, without the gender.
Many of us may be misfits, we may have been relegated to the fringe of politics for a variety of reasons. But we can, and should, try to rise to the occasion.
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New polling shows that support for "gender identity" policies in California has dropped nearly 20 points since 2020! On questions related to prisons, changing rooms, and shelters, voters now overwhelmingly support single-sex spaces. 🎉
Strong support for placing male offenders in women’s prisons was cut nearly in half in the past three years, with a 17% increase in strong disagreement with such policies. #KeepPrisonsSingleSex
The largest swing over the past three years was on the topic of homeless and domestic violence shelters, with 51.6% of CA voters in strong support of single-sex shelters, up from 32.8% in 2020. Strong support for letting men into women’s shelters dropped drastically.
A whistleblower shared with Sasha Stone at @AwardsDaily that the controversial decision won a 26 to 27 vote in favor of removing award categories for women. The next voting meeting to finalize the decision will be held on December 11, 2022.
Victory! Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Rules: Men Are Not "Natural Born Females"
In 2021, WoLF submitted an amicus brief in the case of Green v. Miss USA—Today, the Ninth Circuit affirmed that the #FirstAmendment protects against being forced to say that men can be women
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From today's ruling:
"The district court held that the First Amendment protected the Pageant’s expressive association rights to exclude a person who would impact the group’s ability to express its views—"
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"...The panel agreed that summary judgment for the Pageant was correct, but reached this conclusion not under the First Amendment’s protection of freedom of association but rather under the First Amendment’s protection against compelled speech."
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Since 1972, Congress has interpreted "sex" under #TitleIX as allowing differential treatment based on sex in some settings, including single-sex athletics, toilets, locker rooms, & showers. These exist to ensure women have safe, equal access to educ. opportunities. #SexNotGender
This week, ACLU filed a Motion to Intervene in WoLF’s California lawsuit challenging SB 132, which allows men who self-identify as women into women-only prisons: womensliberationfront.org/news/aclu-move… 1/6
Lambda Legal, the Transgender Law Center, and the ACLU foundations of Northern California and Southern California are representing four incarcerated men along with the Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project (“TGIJP”). 2/6
The ACLU objects to the state’s choice to slow the transfer the more than 300 men who have sought transfer to women’s facilities, one-third of whom are sex offenders (though the ACLU denies this documented, material fact in its court pleadings). 3/6
2/9 Dr. Devin Buckley, a feminist philosopher and WoLF board member, was scheduled to speak at Harvard University on her cutting-edge work on British Romanticism and philosophy.
3/9 But on April 18th, Dr. Buckley was notified that she had been disinvited, citing her board membership with "an organization that takes a public stance regarding trans people as dangerous and deceptive."