The relationship between Cathy Brennan and the SPLC

In late November of last year, Secular Woman began a petition asking the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to list Cathy Brennan’s Gender Identity Watch as a hate group. In January, during the SPLC’s internal discussions concerning their yearly hate group list, Cathy Brennan made public her donations to the SPLC on her facebook page. And the SPLC accepted her donation. When asked about the donations, the Gender Identity Watch twitter account claimed that Cathy Brennan routinely donated money to the SPLC. Cathy Brennan has also previously been consulted by the SPLC on issues concerning fringe Men’s Rights Activists. When the SPLC list was later revealed, Gender Identity Watch was not included. The stated reason was that Gender Identity Watch was not a “group” by their definition. However, the SPLC did list a vehemently anti-gay and anti-trans religiously motivated lobbying group, The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI). Although Brennan denies ties

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