Fake “Radical Feminist” group actually paid political front for anti-LGBT James Dobson organization
The Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) is a supposedly radical feminist activist group which, as noted by Pink News, shows “little evidence of campaigning on any women’s issues unrelated to transgender people”. They claim to “lobby for pro-choice legislation” and for “women’s autonomy”, but somehow evidence of (or calls to) action for such purposes are completely absent from their website (archived here so you don’t have to give them pageviews) outside that vague mission statement blurb. What you do see, however, is a lot of collusion with not-exactly-feminist-friendly right-wing media which is interesting when you realize where their funding comes from. The anti-LGBT Religious Right has been actively synchronizing their message with and adopting the terminology of anti-transgender feminist academics for a few years now. The goal is to divorce their position from the stodgy backward-seeming prudish views that they believe lost them the culture war on gay marriage and adopt
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- 1Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict100%
- 2Religion and moralityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict39%
- 3Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community37%
- 4Family and relationshipsTheme family: Identity, culture, and community32%
- 5Science, evidence, and expertiseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication25%
- 6Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life21%
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- 357%
- 443%
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- Transgender identity and history186
- Community and organizing161
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization112
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse76
- Law and civil rights69
- Culture, identity, and representation68
- Education and youth52
- Healthcare and medicine48
- History, archives, and memory42
- Science, evidence, and expertise33
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WoLF is a fake “radical feminist” group funded by anti-abortion and anti-LGBT hate groups that exist to push anti-transgender transphobia.
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Involved with both Haver and Ben-Shalom is WOLF, a “radical feminist” organization funded by an anti-abortion James Dobson organization. While this triangulation of so-called “radical feminism” and the political right might be new to the SPLC, it isn’t new to trans people:
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