Wrong Bodies, the State of US Politics, and “Gender Identity” at the Supreme Court

July 19, 2024

The film “Wrong Bodies” premiered on July 10 and you can watch it for free on X here. I wasn’t able to get to it immediately after its premier, but I finally did and it’s well worth a watch for everyone, including those of us who are already familiar with the topic of “gender identity,” because it draws clear lines between the cult of the belief that sex isn’t real and other death cults. It reminded me of my up-close-and-personal experience with a group of people (mostly women) who are thoroughly caught up in the cult of trans. The film is the work of SkirtGoSpinny, who you can find on X here and on YouTube here. 

I don’t typically weigh in on partisan politics because the US chapter of Women’s Declaration International (of which I serve as president) is a nonpartisan organization that does not take positions on candidates or parties. So I have to say that in the section that follows, I am speaking solely for myself as an individual and not on behalf of any organization. 

I don’t know about you, readers, but I am finding the state of US politics to be pretty grim. I subscribe to The Free Press and read it regularly, including “TGIF” every Friday morning. This is what greeted me when I opened it this morning:

I’m sure plenty of readers of this Substack will find that image exhilarating. I do not. But even having said that, I read stories like that of Xaviaer DuRousseau and I acknowledge that I understand the right-ward shift in US politics. 

I read articles like this July 10 Guardian piece titled, “The Republicans’ new party platform is scary—because it can win.” It states of the platform, “The manifesto rebrands historically liberal stances, like guarding entitlements and growing blue-collar jobs, as Republican.” I read things like this piece in The Liberal Patriot from yesterday, titled, “The GOP’s Big Working Class Bet: It just might work.” Today’s Democratic elite is just appallingly out of touch with ordinary American voters on a number of issues (not just the issue I care about most—protecting women and girls as a sex class—though they’re certainly out of touch with ordinary Americans on that one too).

This is how the Guardian piece ends: 

In power, it’s likely that Trump will once again betray his working-class supporters and govern like a typical business conservative, because he is utterly committed to more tax cuts and weakening trade unions. He’s promised his richest political donors whatever they want if they help him get back in power. As a result, we’ve seen billionaires lining up to shower him with cash.

Yet Trump has displayed surprising political discipline lately. While the Democrats bicker among themselves about Biden’s fitness, Trump is only now beginning to spend big money in swing states like Wisconsin – where he is already leading in the polls.

This is a side of Trump we haven’t previously seen; he is campaigning to win in a dangerously coherent way. If progressives don’t wake up and offer an appealing alternative, Trump might do more than rule through the courts and through executive orders – he might forge a long-lasting, majoritarian movement.

And that was all before Thomas Crooks handed Trump the election by shooting him in the head.

During his convention speech this week, Donald Trump said, “We will not have men playing in women’s sports, that will end immediately,” to thunderous applause. An anonymous X user posted the clip, saying: “My fellow leftists: we told you this was an open goal for the right. We told you women would abandon you if you failed to defend our rights. We told you, and you called us TERFS and bigots, and complained endlessly about white women voters. Now’s the time to stop digging.”

Indeed. It’s why I wrote The Reckoning: How the Democrats and the Left Betrayed Women and Girls. 

And here we are.

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