Stop asking "Where are the feminists?" The real question is, "Where are YOU?"

I stumbled down the gender cult’s rabbit hole in 2015 when I got fired from my job of 17 years for opposing grown men in the girls’ locker rooms. I’ve been involved in the fight to preserve sex-based protections ever since.

The work is tedious and exhausting, perpetually assaulted by a forcefield of opposition from powerful companies and people who get really friggin’ rich by exploiting the delusion of others. The media bias is relentless, and the social stigma is severe. It can, at times, be downright scary to even express a based opinion on Twitter regarding the gender wars. Just look at what’s happened to J.K. Rowling for having the temerity to defend women.

In all this work, though, I can’t tell you how many times a week I encounter the same smug question, usually a gotcha attempt from men on my side of the political divide who’ve never lifted a finger to help:

”Where are the feminists? Why don’t they care about men taking over women’s sports and prisons?” “You made your bed; now you get to lie in it. You should be grateful for men like Matt Walsh who are going to save you from this crisis.” (I paraphrased.)

It’s a particularly vexing, bad-faith line of questioning. No matter what the topic, it seems women are always to be blamed for our own mistreatment. Are there way too many women cheerleading this misogynistic dumpster fire of a movement? Yes. But one of the reasons I’ve delayed writing this long-overdue response for so long is that there are SO many bold, brilliant women who’ve been working SO long and hard to fight this that sitting down to try to catalog their efforts is a bit overwhelming.

Thank goodness radical feminist extraordinaire Kara Dansky beat me to it and laid the groundwork for a proper understanding of both the history of this movement and of the feminist opposition to it. Seriously, read her article. She will tell you about Janice Raymond, who predicted this nonsense all the way back in 1979. She’ll tell you about Sheila Jeffreys and the Women’s Liberation Front (who sued the federal government for its assault on Title IX) and all the feminist legislative efforts to preserve sex-based protections. They’re really remarkable, and if you don’t know about them, you can’t properly understand the issue.

But let me just go ahead and highlight some more of women’s efforts to oppose our own erasure. The following is a non-exhaustive list of women’s (largely grassroots) efforts to stem the tide of this misogynistic new movement. I apologize in advance for the worthy women I accidentally forget to include. (Feel free to comment on the blog with the contributions of women I forgot, and I will do my best to update the blog accordingly.)

I should also note that I have a LOT of ideological differences of opinion with many of the women listed below. It should go without saying that my inclusion of their contributions to the fight should not be interpreted as wholesale agreement with all their philosophies, but since cancel culture abounds on both sides of the aisle, I will offer that disclaimer. I post their work because I appreciate their courage regardless of whether or not I agree with them on anything else.

So where are the feminists? Here are a few of the places we womenfolk have been in working to defend ourselves against the left’s new men’s sexual rights movement over the past decade or so.

• I already referenced the Women’s Liberation Front above. Not only did they sue the federal government, but according to Kara Dansky, WOLF “has filed at least eight amicus briefs before the U.S. federal judiciary arguing, essentially, that women are female and ought to be legally protected on that basis.” Dynamite women like Lierre Keith and MaryLou Singleton have served on WOLF’s leadership team and elsewhere, vocally opposing female erasure.
  
  Here’s a panel discussion WOLF hosted from a feminist perspective on the subject in Seattle a few years ago.

• Hands Across The Aisle Women’s Coalition united conservative Christian and radical feminist women together around their shared opposition to gender identity- based legislation. Group members worked together to do everything from filing legislative initiatives to co-creating parent resources to joining panel discussions to testifying in Senate hearings. When the co-founders (I’m one of them) organized a rally in Tacoma, the police told us it was unsafe to come outside. Our private lunch was transjacked by activists who invaded our space and ripped the phone from one of our hands. It was a pretty terrifying experience. I spoke at another rally in Vancouver that was so hotly protested, it required five men holding hands in a circle around me to keep the mob at bay. These are scary situations, but they haven’t shut us up.

• Kellie-Jay Keen (aka Posie Parker), founder of Standing for Women, has traveled the world rallying women to speak. The women who attend these rallies have faced heavy, sometimes dangerous opposition. (Last week, a woman at the Melbourne event was knocked unconscious.) Maria MacLachlan attended a rally at Hyde Park, where a transactivist punched her and smashed her camera.
  The event in New York was so dangerous, in fact, that Kellie Jay ultimately decided it was too dangerous for her to appear. Check out what the women who did attend endured.

• Amy Sousa has been resolute in her defense of women and children. Here’s a playlist she compiled of over 30 protests that have happened in the US alone. She sits on a weekly call with thousands of women from over 160 countries who are fighting. Why isn’t the press covering any of their efforts? Here’s Amy being a badass and physically restraining a lunatic as he tries to assault a woman for speaking.

• Julia Beck is a lesbian radical feminist woman who has taken a very public stand against the Equality Act’s Assault on Title IX and women’s sex-based rights.

• Natasha Chart (one of my very favorites) is the former President of the Women’s Liberation Front who got fired from her job at Rewire News (formerly RH Reality Check) in 2015 for her feminist stance against the sex industry. She has been working tirelessly to oppose the gender cult’s assault on women for almost a decade now. Here is her powerful speech outside the Supreme Court.

• Jennifer Bilek is an absolutely brilliant journalist, whose The 11th Hour Blog, has provided such incredibly important analysis of the engineers behind the gender machine.

• Maya Forstater is a researcher who lost her job at a thinktank after tweeting that trans identified males could not change their sex. She won her claim that she was unfairly discriminated against because of her gender-critical beliefs and so emboldened thousands of women worldwide to take similar stands.

• Dr. Suzanne Forbes-Vierling is a clinical psychologist who has boldly stood for women. She uses her platform to expose the racist origins of the gender identity movement.

• Magdalen Berns was a brilliant British YouTuber, boxer, and software developer. As a lesbian radical feminist, she produced a series of YouTube vlogs in the late 2010s focusing on topics such as women's rights and gender identity. Berns tragically passed away from brain cancer in 2019 but not before shining a bright light into a dark world.

• K. Yang is a self-described “former trans rights activist.” She’s another bold woman who has stood fearlessly against the trans lobby, serving as a much-needed whistleblower on LGBTQ organizations. Her research on the UN, and her analysis on how indoctrination programing operates has been invaluable in the fight.

• Meghan Murphy is a freelance writer and the founder and editor of The Feminist Current. Meghan has boldly opposed female erasure under great duress, even losing access to her Twitter account for several years as a result of her unapologetic analysis of this dangerous movement.

• Genevieve Gluck, Jennifer Sieland, and the team at Reduxx Magazine are bold women who use their skills and talents to resist the misogynistic journalist standards of the AP and to amplify the voices and needs of females.

• Eva Kurilova is an activist and writer who focuses heavily on women’s sex-based rights. She’s a regular contributor to Gender Dissent and a guest columnist for Reduxx.

• The Famous Artist Birdy Rose is a talented artist who uses her gifts to defend women. She designs merchandise to equip women to stand up for themselves. She’s received tremendous backlash for her boldness.

• Beth Stelzer is the founder of the critically important Save Women’s Sports, an organization designed to protest the male takeover of women’s athletic opportunities. Beth has testified all over the country on behalf of other female athletes.

• Fair Play for Women is a female-led campaigning and consultancy group which raises awareness, provides evidence and analysis, and works to protect the rights of women and girls in the UK.

• Women's Declaration International USA exists to promote the Declaration, which re-affirms women and girls' sex-based rights, as set out in the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, and challenges the discrimination we experience from the replacement of the category of sex with that of ‘gender identity.’

• Keep Prisons Single-Sex is a group dedicated to protecting female inmates from the (often violent) men now infiltrating their spaces.

• Can I Get A Witness? is a secular, privately funded project led by Joey Brite, a self-described “working class butch lesbian, a former radio DJ, a true 2^nd Waver.” The project gives voice to those who have either been silenced, experienced job loss, had their reputations trashed, been de-platformed, received death threats, or experienced violence first-hand from radical trans activists.

• Jennifer Lahl and Kallie Fell are filmmakers who’ve used their gifts and platforms to fight for the bodily integrity of the women and children harmed by #bigpharma’s assault on their bodies. Two of their films, The Detransition Diaries: Saving Our Sisters and Trans Mission: What’s The Rush to Reassign Gender? have been instrumental in starting some national conversations too long considered forbidden discourse.

• Candice Jackson is the former Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, and Dep General Counsel, at the US Dept of Education. from 2017 to 2021 where she was responsible for drafting the first-ever regulations under Title IX addressing campus sexual harassment and assault. Candice has returned to private law practice and currently represents incarcerated women in California prisons in WoLF’s lawsuit to overturn the 2021 law that allows male criminals to choose to be housed in women’s prisons based on “gender identity.”

• TerfCollective is a syndicate of gender critical and radical feminist women working to end the international campaign of female erasure.

Dawn Land, NoPubertyBlockersForChildren, and Beth Daranciang are three of the many women who’ve invested countless time and energy to exposing the harms of gender clinics and protesting outside their doors to create awareness of the reality that these butchers are sterilizing children. A female-led group called Partners for Ethical Care operates within the same space.

Readers, this is just the tip of the iceberg. In cities around the wide world, women are showing up to fight. We’re getting fired. We’re getting ridiculed. We’re being threatened. Kara Dansky even had literal egg thrown at her face.

While it’s depressingly true that big name “feminist” organizations like NOW have thrown women under the bus, the reality remains that ACTUAL feminists (the kind with the ovaries to properly define and thus defend women) have been doing a lion’s share of the work on the frontlines against this insidious new movement. Just because the mainstream media doesn’t care enough to document their efforts doesn’t mean they aren’t happening or effecting change.

If you’re sitting on your virtual high horse throwing stones at women when you’ve contributed nothing to the fight yourself, the question shouldn’t be “Where are the feminists” but rather, “Where are YOU? What have YOU done to help?

If the answer is nothing, it’s time to get busy.