Time to get the media to platform the leftist feminist critique of “gender identity”

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Mar 09, 2026

"It's long been terrifying to me how the legacy media bent the knee to the trans lobby. To see trained journalists abandoning their commitment to basic facts and to suppress the right of others to speak facts, such as someone's biological sex or their former name, is absolutely maddening. Kara Dansky is rightfully calling every media outlet out for this travesty. "

- Melissa in Philly

March 9, 2026

As many subscribers know, many of us have been raising our reality-based and leftist critique of so-called “gender identity” for a very long time, and the media has generally refused to platform us.

The media’s general approach is to ignore us, despite us banging on their doors since forever. When they’re not busy ignoring us, they paint us as “far right.”

There are cracks, though.

Many outlets are starting to notice that, um, maybe support for “trans” is hurting the Democrats at the polls. Many are saying that maybe, possibly, Democrats need to change course. People are noticing that polling shows that American voters across the political spectrum know that sex is real.

These polling results are especially dramatic when voters are asked very clear questions about specific scenarios.

When a pollster asks a voter, as The New York Times and Ipsos did in 2025, a question like, “Thinking about transgender female athletes — meaning athletes who were male at birth but who currently identify as female — do you think they should or should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports?” the pollster gets responses of “should not” from 79% of overall voters, 94% of Republicans, 67% of Democrats, and 64% of Independents.

But Women’s Declaration International USA commissioned polling in late 2023 that got even more dramatic responses after voters were asked much clearer questions concerning very specific scenarios:

4 of 5 nationwide say the word ‘women’ means adult humans who are biologically female
88% say a female 12-year-old attending a sleep-away summer camp for boys and girls, who has been signed up by her parents for a girls’ cabin, should be assigned bunkmates who are female only
87% say an elderly or disabled female client of a home health agency who requests only women home health aides help her with showering should be sent female aides only

86% say a female patient visiting a clinic for a breast exam or Pap smear who requests a woman nurse perform the examination should be seen by a female nurse only
85% say a female 10-year-old using the women’s restroom on her own in a restaurant should be in the women’s room with only people who are female; at 91%, Black voters are more likely than white voters, at 83%, to say the other people in the restroom should be female
85% say a female passenger going through an airport security screening pat-down should only be touched by a female officer
85% say when a female gym member is showering and changing in the women’s locker room, the other users in the locker room should be female only
84% say an all-female high school basketball team should face opponents who are female only
84% say a female survivor of rape or domestic violence seeking help from a women-only shelter should have counselors, support groups, and roommates that are female only
83% say a female inmate in a women’s prison should be assigned cellmates who are female only
77% say an adult female lesbian using a dating app, who specifies she is interested only in women, should be offered matches who are female only
Large pluralities of voters say that when female children consider themselves boys, non-binary, or something else other than girls, the adults in their lives should neither agree nor disagree with the children’s self-description, but ask questions and try to understand their perspectives and feelings

We know that Americans across the political spectrum are united on these issues.

The media is starting to notice this, and word is starting to spread.

But the media needs to go further. They need to listen to us. We are, after all, the experts on these topics.

It’s time. For women and girls as a sex class. For lesbians and gay men as homosexuals. For children who have been lied to about the material reality of sex.

Enough.

A group of us recently put together a script, including the contact information of the experts.

Help us get our message out there. Feel free to use the following template. Use it to send messages via email. Use it in your Substack notes and messages. Use it on any platform where it makes sense to do so.

Dear [reporter and/or editor]
I am writing regarding your recent piece, [title of article]. I was surprised and disappointed to find the piece quotes neither [relevant expert from our list] nor any other left-leaning advocate for the importance of sex in law and society.
To omit the voices of liberal and progressive dissenters to “gender identity” is to impose a false left-right frame on hotly contested issues. It is not impartial reporting.
The individuals listed below are leaders in the effort to reinstate the material reality of sex as the basis for law, policy, and medicine. They are all grounded in the political left (though their party affiliations may have shifted over time). The media landscape must include their expertise.
Please contact them for comment before you publish on any matter pertaining to sex, “gender identity” or “trans,” and please use the style guide developed by Women’s Declaration International USA when reporting on these matters.
On the leftist feminist objections to “gender identity” and to “trans” generally:
Kara Dansky, The Democratic Women’s Declaration, The TERF Report, The Reckoning, The Abolition of Sex, demwomensdec@gmail.com, @kdansky
Elizabeth Chesak, Women’s Declaration International USA (WDI USA), president@womensdeclarationusa.com, @WDI_USA
Elspeth Cypher, Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF), contact@womensliberationfront.org, @WomensLibFront, @EBCLaw
On parents’ rights, children’s rights, and autogynephilia
Erin Friday, Our Duty, erin@ourduty.group, @ErinFriday75490
On the Leftist objections to “pediatric gender medicine”
Jamie Reed, LGB Courage Coalition, Jamie.reed@lgbcouragecoalition.org, @LGBCourage
Lauren Leggieri, LGB Courage Coalition, Lauren.leggieri@lgbcouragecoalition.org, @LGBCourage
Martha Wexler, Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender (DIAG), media@di-ag.org, @DIAGdemocrats
On the leftist LGB objections to “gender identity” and “trans” generally
Jamie Reed, LGB Courage Coalition, Jamie.reed@lgbcouragecoalition.org, @LGBCourage
Lauren Leggieri, LGB Courage Coalition, Lauren.leggieri@lgbcouragecoalition.org, @LGBCourage
On female-only sports
Kim Jones, ICONS, kimjones@iconswomen.com, @icons_women
Marshi Smith, ICONS, kimjones@iconswomen.com, @icons_women
Jennifer Sey, XX-XY Athletics, sey@xx-xyathletics.com, @xx_xyathletics
On dissent within the Democratic Party
Martha Wexler, Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender (DIAG), media@di-ag.org, @DIAGdemocrats
Kara Dansky, The Democratic Women’s Declaration, The TERF Report, The Reckoning, The Abolition of Sex, demwomensdec@gmail.com, @kdansky
On single-sex spaces (prisons, bathrooms, locker rooms, etc.)
Jean Chadbourne, Women Are Real, info@femalesmatter.org, @WomenAreReals
On detransition
Elizabeth Chesak, Women’s Declaration International USA (WDI USA), president@womensdeclarationusa.com, @WDI_USA
On female safeguarding issues and child safeguarding issues
Amy Sousa, knownheretic.com, theknownheretic@gmail.com, @KnownHeretic
On sex and gender in law and the courts
Kara Dansky, The Democratic Women’s Declaration, The TERF Report, The Reckoning, The Abolition of Sex, demwomensdec@gmail.com, @kdansky
Elspeth Cypher, Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF), contact@womensliberationfront.org, @WomensLibFront, @EBCLaw
Erin Friday, Our Duty, erin@ourduty.group, @ErinFriday75490
Sincerely,
[your name]

It’s time for the media to listen to and platform the experts on the political left. Let’s go.