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Susan McCarthy's avatar

Great stuff, well-argued and thoroughly researched. I'm so pleased to discover more and more left/liberal gender critical feminists on Twitter and Substack. Re: Murphy, as well as Corinna Cohn, Maia Poet the fake detransitioner, Ben Appel and others, I think it's quite possible they are funded by, or are seeking to be funded by, right-wing sources (including possibly Musk). It's all so clearly a grift. At a minimum, the right-wing turn to Trump is likely an effort to create "engagement" on Twitter, and to earn some dough from clicks and re-posts. I have no evidence for any of this, but I'm suspicious because their rationales for supporting Trump, as your post makes so very clear, are demonstrably, laughably false.

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Valley of the Rogue's avatar

I quit reading/listening to her and the almost all of the rest of the "gender critical" crowd because most of them are from countries outside the U.S., and their ignorance about US politics just made them irrelevant and even damaging to women here. Ditto for sites like Ovarit, which are absolutely infuriating because of misplaced priorities and too much emphasis on UK-based articles which mean nothing here in the U.S. I also refuse to ever support fake feminist outfits like WoLF and WDI USA because they are willing to make deals with the devil--and the far right IS the devil--over issues that really don't mean much for women's rights overall but at the same time are being used by said right as useful idiots as a way to discredit feminists and the political left. The right doesn't care about Title IX--they want to get rid of it and the US Department of Education which oversees Title IX. They don't care and literally want women out of the public sphere entirely. Women are dying in the US for because of lack of access to abortion and health care, but here women are still talking about "gender identity" as if it even means squat in comparison. It is so infuriating, and I have followed U.S. politics and been involved in it for some 55 years.

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