FFS Friday: Cynthia Cravens from Women Are Real
March 21, 2025
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Today’s FFS Friday celebrates Cynthia Cravens, a fantastic TERF who hails from San Francisco. In 2024, she challenged California state Senator Scott Wiener, who is responsible for numerous anti-woman California laws, including SB 132 (which allows men to be housed in the women’s prison on the basis of their “female gender identities”) for his seat in the state Senate. Last week, she sent a letter to the San Francisco Human Rights Commission on behalf of the group WomenAreReal (@WomeAreReals on X), requesting that the Commission investigate incidents of sexual harassment, indecent exposure, and voyeurism affecting women in San Francisco’s communal bathing facilities where nudity is expected. She also testified before the Commission about why this topic is important. Cynthia is a true hero for women’s sex-based rights.
Girls and women, human females, who make up over 50% of the human population, a demographic potentially subject to menstruation, pregnancy (sometimes forced), lactation, menopause, AND male-on-female sexual harassment and violence, are entitled to their own words, spaces, services, and sports...without interference from males who SUBJECTIVELY self-identify as the opposite sex. Material reality matters. Binary biological sex matters. Girls and women matter.
Cynthia Cravens took the bold step of running against California state Senator Scott Wiener in 2024 as a San Francisco Democrat who unapologetically supports the sex-based rights of women and girls. In 2023, Abigail Shrier wrote about how Wiener’s work in the state Senate was turning California into a “predator’s paradise,” or a “haven for human trafficking.”
Cynthia lost in the nonpartisan primary election, but she earned over 18 thousand votes.
Last Thursday, Cynthia, representing the group WomenAreReal, submitted a letter to the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, asking that the Commission investigate incidents of sexual harassment, indecent exposure, and voyeurism affecting women in San Francisco’s communal bathing facilities where nudity is expected.
The letter makes that case that:
Eliminating female-only accommodations might conflict with San Francisco’s international human rights law commitments;
The current practices of some communal bathing facilities of allowing female-only days and areas protect women from unwanted exposure and harassment; and
The privacy and safety concerns of women must be addressed as a matter of San Francisco’s own ordinances protecting the rights of women and girls.
WomenAreReal explained on X that the severity of the concerns is heightened by local news that sympathetically featured a convicted rapist advocating for access to women’s nude spas. He is listed as a high risk reoffender. Several women gave testimony during a hearing before the Commission.
WomenAreReal then posted a thread on X containing images of Cynthia’s letter to the Commission and videos of the women who testified. It’s all well worth a watch and you can find it here. Cynthia’s fantastic speech before the Commission is here.
I asked Cynthia what motivates her to speak out in support of the sex-based rights of women and girls, and she said, “Girls and women, human females, who make up over 50% of the human population, a demographic potentially subject to menstruation, pregnancy (sometimes forced), lactation, menopause, AND male-on-female sexual harrassment and violence, are entitled to their own words, spaces, services, and sports...without interference from males who SUBJECTIVELY self-identify as the opposite sex. Material reality matters. Binary biological sex matters. Girls and women matter.”
Cynthia is a true hero to women and girls as a sex-class, and I’m proud to call her a friend. Cynthia, today’s FFS Friday is for you.
Great choice! If Cynthia runs again, which I hope she will, I hope the word gets out so we are aware to donate to her campaign.
Cynthia addresses the San Francisco Human Rights Commission like a patient kindergarten teacher introducing the facts of life to five year-olds. This is the best way to cut through defensiveness and the fog of denial that prevents ideologues from acknowledging what's true. She doesn't attack their illogical views. She sidesteps ideology altogether and presents a scenario that enables the Commission members to identify with a naked women alone in a public shower while a male "washes" his genitals two feet away. How might she feel? How would you, a woman, feel? And how would you even know whether the man is trans or not? (Cynthia wisely sidesteps the fact that even if the man "identifies" as trans, this tells us nothing about his propensity for violence.)
But trans-identified men have special victim status, and where there's a victim there has to be an oppressor. Who better to blame than a defenseless, naked woman in the shower?
Cynthia cuts through the crap and reminds the Commission who the victims really are, and why women-only spaces were created in the first place.
https://www.evakurilova.com/p/statistics-show-that-half-of-trans
The problem with naked men in the women's shower is not that they're trans. It's that they're men.