I’m joining the DIAG board!

It becomes official later today

April 14, 2026

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I’m pleased and honored to announce that as of today, I am a member of the Board of Directors of Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender (DIAG).

I hope fellow Democrats will consider becoming DIAG supporters.

I became a registered Democrat when I turned 18 in 1990. I have been a registered Democrat ever since (except for a few years when I was registered Green in the 2000s, before I re-registered as a Democrat in order to vote in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary).

Being a Democrat and a TERF was an extremely lonely experience when I started doing this work in 2015, and even into the 2020s.

I served on the board of the Women’s Liberation Front (a nonpartisan radical feminist organization) from 2016 to 2020. During those years, those of us who hail from the political left and also care about women’s sex-based rights were few and far between. We would do our absolute best to raise awareness of our concerns with so-called “gender identity,” but we felt like hardly anyone would listen. We lost jobs, friends, and family members. People on the left still lose jobs, friends, and family members over this, but when they do, they tend to know that there are plenty of us out here who will stand by them. Back then, no one was there to stand by us. We just had to navigate it all on our own.

The situation continued that way into the 2020s, but then things started to shift. I started getting involved in Women’s Declaration International in 2019, became more involved in 2020, and joined the Board of Directors of the U.S. chapter as President in 2021 (where I stayed until 2024). Our ranks grew. I found women all around the world who were proud to say that they hailed from the political left and were happy to stand up for women’s sex-based rights. And, of course, I got to know some of the excellent TERFs on TERF Island.

I remain a staunch supporter of both WoLF and WDI, and frequently host WDI women-only webinars on Saturdays. Both organizations have done tremendous work to bring awareness to the harms of so-called “gender identity” from a radical feminist and women’s rights perspective and I look forward to continuing to work with both organizations.

More recently, the legions of people on the political left who stand up for material reality have really started to mobilize in the U.S.

DIAG was established in 2024 as a “501(c)(3) all volunteer nonprofit organization formed by liberal voters like you, working to expose the ideologically driven medical scandal of the ‘gender’ industry and the sexism, homophobia, and medical harms of sex-denialism.”

It works to protect children, adolescents, and vulnerable adults from:

• Regressive 1950s-era stereotypes of “normal” behavior for boys/men and girls/women

• Influencers and activists who encourage and affirm distress about one’s healthy body

• Clinicians who profit by pathologizing typical adolescent discomfort

• A gender-medicine industry that markets harmful cosmetic body modification as a solution to distress

It supports the sex-based rights of women and girls to:

• Fair competition

• Safe play

• Privacy and dignity afforded by single-sex spaces

• Opportunities for recognition

• Honors for achievement

It also supports the LGB community. It:

• Opposes efforts to “fix” gay and gender nonconforming youth through gender-medicine interventions and

• Rejects homophobic claims of “transphobia” aimed at those who are same-sex attracted

And its supporters are all political lefties!

I have made common cause with plenty of conservatives and Republicans over the years. There are plenty of feminists who will never forgive me for going on Tucker Carlson Tonight in 2017 or for being on a panel at The Heritage Foundation in 2019.

However, as much as I value many of the relationships I have built with conservatives (especially conservative women) over the years, the political right is not my home, and never has been. My conservative friends know that, too, and they respect me for it (while disagreeing with me about plenty of things).

To be clear, tons of people all over this country have left the Democratic Party because of this issue (among others), and I can’t say that I blame them. Tons of people have told me that I need to do the same.

But I haven’t. I’ve stayed right where I am, defending women and girls from within. And I’m proud to be joining forces with fellow Democrats willing to stand and fight for the future of our party.

I hope you’ll consider becoming a DIAG supporter today by signing up at the group’s website. (It doesn’t cost a thing, though donations are always welcome.)

Let’s do this.

Kara