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Lel I just learned a radical feminist group that got attention in the media for transphobia a while back was actually a front for a Christian fundamentalist organization.
This is well researched:
Also I said a long time ago that Christians are beginning to use secular arguments to try to justify their attempts at establishing a theocracy…and people on both the left and the right are hand-feeding them this kind of approach.
The Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) is a supposedly radical feminist activist group which, as noted by Pink News, shows “little evidence of campaigning on any women’s issues unrelated to transgender people”.
They claim to “lobby for pro-choice legislation” and for “women’s
autonomy”, but somehow evidence of (or calls to) action for such
purposes are completely absent from their website
(archived here so you don’t have to give them pageviews) outside that
vague mission statement blurb. What you do see, however, is a lot of
collusion with not-exactly-feminist-friendly right-wing media which is
interesting when you realize where their funding comes from.The anti-LGBT Religious Right has been actively synchronizing their message
with and adopting the terminology of anti-transgender feminist
academics for a few years now. The goal is to divorce their position
from the stodgy backward-seeming prudish views that they believe lost
them the culture war on gay marriage and adopt a language and message
that will more easily infiltrate and divide progressive circles.This sparkly modern makeover is one activists like WoLF are more than
happy to provide. The Religious Right has been consciously shifting
their position away from gay marriage towards transgender rights since the 2014 Southern Baptist Conference.
Despite their deep belief that family values are threatened by
“feminism, gay rights, and trans activism”, Religious Right Groups like
the Family Research Council have gladly latched onto anti-trans statements by gay congressman Barney Frank and the academic work of anti-trans feminist academic Janice Raymond to bolster their position. It’s classic wedge-issue strategy.[..]
This is not the first time TERFs have worked with anti-feminist/LGBT
groups in targeting transgender kids. In 2014, TERF attorney, Cathy Brennan and her “radical feminist” organization worked with
the anti-abortion/LGBT group the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) in
targeting a 15 year old trans girl, resulting in the youth being placed
on a medical suicide watch.
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