Quote:As a lifelong Democrat, staunch leftist, and radical feminist, I was not happy to see Donald Trump elected once more. But I was not surprised.

Data showed that “the most frequent criticism among swing voters who broke for Trump” was that “Kamala Harris is focused more on cultural issues like transgender issues rather than helping the middle class.” To me, this came as no shock.

Some of us have been warning the Democrats for years.

In August 2024, I published an open letter to Vice President Harris, practically begging her to say out loud at the Democratic National Convention that a woman is an adult human female. I also wrote two books warning the Democrats of what was in store.

And I’m not the only one who has been raising the alarm. Since at least 1979, when UMass-Amherst professor emerita and lesbian radical feminist Janice Raymond argued that the concept of “transsexualism” (as it was then called) reified harmful sex stereotypes, radical feminists have been speaking out against the misogyny and homophobia inherent to the idea that an individual’s personality might not match her or his sex. We have vehemently opposed efforts to end female-only spaces and services.

Quote:The Democrats own this.

President Biden began saying that “transgender discrimination” is the “civil rights issue of our time” in 2012. In 2015, Congressional Democrats introduced the so-called Equality Act, which would redefine “sex” to include the nebulous, sexist, homophobic concept of “gender identity” for all purposes under U.S. civil rights law.

In 2016, President Barack Obama issued a “Dear Colleague” letter to U.S. schools, instructing them to interpret the word sex to include “gender identity” for all Title IX purposes. Democratic support for “trans” has continued apace since then.

Voters last week were not dis- or misinformed about the Democratic Party’s support for “gender identity” over sex. They simply rejected it.

Quote:One of the things that frustrates me most about this issue is how liberals have decided to die on this illogical, indefensible hill, even though many if not most of our other positions are not only defensible but quite reasonable (on climate change, abortion, vaccination, minimum wage, maternity leave, etc)... But because we are yoked to this poison pill agenda of insisting that gender identity supersedes sex, we lose people's trust on all kinds of other issues, because why the hell would you trust a party that can't even figure out the difference between a man and a woman?