A month ago, radical feminists organized a series of protests, talks, and events in the U.S. against the policy goals of the gender identity movement collectively called Women Stand Up. These actions were supported by the Heritage Foundation, which helped some of these women (such as a British organizer popularly nicknamed Posie Parker) fly in and also hosted a panel that included speakers from the radfem blogs 4th Wave Now and Feminist Current (including site owner Meghan Murphy). Much debate has ensued over whether it was okay to accept this aid from such a right wing institution, but I feel that the results speak for themselves: there has been more press coverage of and visible public interest in the topic of gender identity ideology and the radical feminist perspectives thereon generated in the last month than probably in the last two years put together. In other words, something has been started right here in this country as a result. To this end, it may be time to start familiarizing yourselves with names like Natasha Chart (especially her, for Americans), Posie Parker, and Meghan Murphy because you'll probably be seeing those names in the press more often in the coming years. Natasha Chart is the American in that list.
While the feminist movement against gender is now substantial in the UK and is getting underway in New Zealand and Canada, it's just getting started here in the U.S. Radical feminists are few in number here as yet, which is why the kind of visible platform that the Heritage Foundation can provide was important to have. Natasha Chart, who is with the Women's Liberation Front (or WoLF for short) and also writes for Feminist Current, has emerged as perhaps the most visible American activist for our movement. Here's a 10-minute speech that she gave at a Women Stand Up protest outside the Human Rights Campaign headquarters on January 27th, the YouTube recording of which currently has a rare 99% up-vote ratio:
(The black and purple flag with the ax symbolizes lesbian feminism.)
So now you have a face and a voice to put with the name Natasha Chart when you see it in the press going forward over the coming years as the battle over the so-called Equality Act (analogous to the proposed changed to the UK's Gender Recognition Act) and other policies in that vein begins to intensify (especially if a Democrat is elected president next year, obviously).