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.
For that opposition, gender identity activists slurred us as “TERFs” — “trans-exclusionary radical feminists.” Recently, however, many women have reclaimed that term. Some of us say it stands for “tired of explaining real facts” or “tired of explaining reality to fools.” All it really means is that we’re women of the left, feminists, who understand that sex is real and that it matters.
For years, we TERFs have been telling elected Democrats that the movement to elevate the subjective concept of “gender identity” over the material reality of sex in law and policy is not only wrong on its merits, but also a potentially significant vote-loser at the ballot box.
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.
Source: Will the Democrats finally start listening to the TERFs?