Radical Feminists Won’t Stop Speaking Out Against Harm Transgender Policies Do To Women’s Rights
Radical feminists, once pillars of the Left, have been shown the door by many in the transgender movement, but they aren’t keeping quiet.
The feminists are continuing to speak out against the elimination of women from society, and the erosion of their rights as an individual sex.
Kara Dansky worked in the progressive criminal justice reform movement, and also spent time working at the ACLU, but when she started speaking out against the erasure of women through the legal promotion of gender identity, she lost work and was sidelined in the field she had worked in for years. Dansky had been pointing out how it was important to not enshrine terms such as “gender identity” into the law, and how doing so would harm women and girls.
“Even though I am solidly on the political Left, in political Left circles, the kinds of things I was saying were very unpopular, even actually socially and professionally prohibited,” Dansky told The Daily Wire.
She is firmly against the Equality Act, which passed the House of Representatives last year. She said the Equality Act would “redefine sex throughout civil rights law to include the phrase ‘gender identity.’”
She said this “obliterates the ability of women and girls to be named as a sex class in the law. And radical feminists think that that is important and a very bad thing for women and girls because we aim to fight sexism, and we cannot fight sexism if we cannot say what sex is and if we cannot say that women and girls constitute a coherent class of people.”
She discussed the hard-won battles that feminists have fought in the past to achieve segregated spaces where women would be apart from men.
According to Live Science, in 1887, Massachusetts passed a law saying that workplaces with women have to have separate restrooms for them, per an article in Rutgers University Law review. By the 1920s, this was the standard in the majority of states.
“There are lots of reasons why historically women have stayed in the home, Dansky explained, and lots of them are “ideological,” and due to stereotypes about the roles of sexes. “But one of them is very practical. Just as a practical matter, it was very difficult for women to be out and about in public life because there was no such thing as women’s restrooms,” she said. “And [getting] public women’s restrooms, as strange as this may sound, was actually a really important feminist fight.”
Public restrooms aren’t the only area where safety and violence is an issue, but also in domestic violence shelters and prisons.
“Women worked very hard to get domestic violence shelters established so that women fleeing male violence in the home could have somewhere to go,” she said, adding how now domestic violence shelters are being legally forced to allow men to stay in the facilities due to “their so-called female gender identity, and that’s really dangerous for women and girls.”
She pointed out how there’s more to it than just the safety concerns, though, such as “really important privacy and dignity issues.” She said even if the men aren’t physically or violently threatening to girls and women, “women and girls ought to be able to say ‘no’ to men and boys in our spaces.”
Prisons are also a major concern as states like California create policies to let men be housed in women’s prisons if they say they are a woman.
In November of 2021, feminist group Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) filed a lawsuit challenging California’s law that permits men who say they personally identify as non-binary or female to be placed in women’s prisons. The ACLU recently sought to get involved in the case, in support of the law, but a decision has not been made on their request.
The bill, SB 132, went into effect in January of 2021 and “allows incarcerated transgender, non-binary and intersex people to request to be housed and searched in a manner consistent with their gender identity,” according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Mahri Irvine, the executive director of Women’s Liberation Front, told The Daily Wire that most of the women who are coming into prison have already gone through several traumatic experiences.
“I would describe incarcerated women as one of our country’s most vulnerable group of people,” she said.
Women in prisons who identify as transgender or non-binary are also at risk due to these policies, Lauren Adams, who recently worked as legal director for WoLF, said. She noted that they aren’t seeking to go to men’s prisons in large numbers, because they are at risk in those environments. They can also become pregnant or be raped, and their physical size is smaller than the men arriving at the women’s prisons.
She said she believes there have been “ten transfer requests from female to male facilities. None have been granted. None have been
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