A Win for Sex-Based Rights in the Ninth Circuit

March 31, 2025

First, the most important read of the day (much more important than my Substack) is “The Ground Zero of trans propaganda: A backstory so sordid, no wonder it has to be censored,” on Rôisín Michaux’s Substack Peaked. It’s a long read, but very worth your time.

Second, I recently published an article in the academic journal Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence. It’s about the 2024 presidential election and why sex-based rights feminists voted the way they did (or didn’t).

Third, earlier today, the Washington Post published an opinion piece by Jim Geraghty, the senior political correspondent of the National Review, titled, “Democrats suddenly see the light on trans athletes in women’s sports: California Gov. Gavin Newsom joins the left’s post-election rethink of the GOP’s pet issue.” He basically accuses Newsom and other prominent Democrats of suddenly reading the room and shifting gears on “trans” issues post-election, after years of fully embracing the rights of men who call themselves women to invade women’s sports and spaces (my language, not his). Gee, you think? I fired off this comment:

Many feminists on the political Left have been discussing this for over a decade.

Please check out WDI USA (www.womensdeclarationusa.com) and WoLF (https://womensliberationfront.org/). I have served on the boards of both organizations.

The day after the election, I launched the Democratic Women's Declaration (www.democraticwomensdeclaration.com). It was inspired by the Declaration on Women's Sex-Based Rights, the Labour Women's Declaration, and the Green Women's Declaration (all based in the UK, aka TERF Island).

In 2023, I published a book titled "The Reckoning: How the Democrats and the Left Betrayed Women and Girls." It was in part meant to serve as a warning of what was coming in November 2024 if the Dems didn't change course. Of course, they didn't, and we all know what happened ("Kamala Harris is for they/them; President Trump is for you"). That book followed a 2021 book titled "The Abolition of Sex: How the 'Transgender' Agenda Harms Women and Girls."

In 1979, a radical feminist lesbian professor named Janice Raymond published "The Transsexual Empire." She republished it in 1994, with an Introduction warning of the emergence of the word "transgender."

Of course these guys have political aspirations. Of course they didn't care until they took a look at the polling. They have been ignoring women this entire time. That's how this works.

(By the way, this article doesn't even mention the fact that Newsom signed SB 132 in 2020, allowing male prisoners to be housed in the primary CA women's prison.)

If any Democrat with nationwide name recognition had paid attention to the many feminists who have been complaining about this for over a decade before November 2024, we would all be a lot better off.

Signed,

A lifelong Democrat and a proud TERF

In one reply, some anonymous commenter called me a “bigot.” I shrugged and made another cup of tea.

But this post is about a recent decision out of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals concluding that Idaho may, consistent with Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, require its schools to maintain single-sex bathrooms and changing facilities (including locker rooms). And, there’s a twist. Read on to learn more.

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