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Fake “Radical Feminist” group actually paid political front for anti-LGBT James Dobson organization

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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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“Fake “Radical Feminist” group actually paid political front for anti-LGBT James Dobson organization” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to feminism and gender politics, while also engaging religion and morality. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

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    Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
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    Religion and moralityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
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    Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    37%
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    Family and relationshipsTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    32%
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    Science, evidence, and expertiseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
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    Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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Fascism and transphobia are ALWAYS linked

Cristan Williams · January 11, 2021

WoLF is a fake “radical feminist” group funded by anti-abortion and anti-LGBT hate groups that exist to push anti-transgender transphobia.

Collective citationDirectly verified

Are Misogynist, Homophobe, & TERF slurs?

Cristan Williams · November 4, 2017

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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Cristan Williams

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Connected through 3 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Culture, identity, and representation, Family and relationships, Feminism and gender politics.

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Shares registered themes including Culture, identity, and representation, Family and relationships, Feminism and gender politics.

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Shares registered themes including Culture, identity, and representation, Family and relationships, Feminism and gender politics.

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Shares registered themes including Culture, identity, and representation, Family and relationships, Feminism and gender politics.

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Shares registered themes including Culture, identity, and representation, Family and relationships, Feminism and gender politics.

Cristan

125 publications · 110 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Culture, identity, and representation, Family and relationships, Feminism and gender politics.

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