The fascinating and frustrating politics of fighting against the abolition of sex

August 31, 2022

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The political dynamics of fighting back against the abolition of sex are as fascinating as they are frustrating. On July 15, I posted this piece, originally published in the Washington Examiner, on what a TERF is and why it matters in today’s political climate. Those are both free and shareable.

I tweeted the piece again yesterday. The replies to my tweet are worth a read. Quite a few conservatives seemed to disagree that TERFs are political leftists, and I was criticized for being “divisive” and for appearing to claim that opposition to the abolition of sex is only coming from the political left. Some people seem to think that I am opposed to cross-partisan coalition work in this political fight, which is ironic because there have been numerous online forums that were created for the express purpose of criticizing groups like Women’s Declaration International USA (WDI USA) and the Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF), both of which I have been involved in, for doing exactly that.

You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time.

- John Lydgate

If any statement has ever characterized the political fight against the abolition of sex more aptly than that one, I am unaware of  it.