As Legacy Organizations Falter, The Fight For Women’s Rights Rests On Small Organizations Like Women’s Liberation Front
Women’s Liberation Front visited Washington DC in May, 2025
We are at a historic moment for women’s rights. State abortion bans, lawsuits, and attempts to ban mifepristone constellated on women in the USA, and men who love them, like a Nor’easter blizzard. Planned Parenthood, the National Organization For Women and other reproductive rights groups were unable to prevent it.
How did we get here? For decades, women’s reproductive rights seemed secure, but the staggering political inability to codify them into law over 48 years, and Ginsberg’s prescient warning that Roe would not stand were largely overlooked. Progressivism and identity politics swept the Left in the 2000’s, pushing social justice, from intersectionality to inequality to transgenderism.
Mission drift was guaranteed, accelerated by organizational infighting, as new insurgent-minded org members sought to refocus organization resources on every new cause-du-jour. A mission to preserve rights that seemed assured couldn’t compete, thus many big legacy civil rights and feminist organizations became arms of Progressivism, Inc.
Supporters who cared about reproductive rights, lesbian rights, and equal pay received fundraising solicitations touting ‘menstruating persons’, ‘chestfeeders’, and ‘people with a capacity for pregnancy.’ The word ‘woman’ was absent. Women who were long-time supporters naturally questioned dehumanizing language from their feminist organizations, and were met with accusations of transphobia, bigotry, and rightwing conversion. It’s about inclusion now, and some men can get pregnant, breastfeed, and be lesbians, a preposterous fallacy.
Few saw the attack on women’s rights coming from transvestite fetishist men. Fewer predicted its embrace by ‘feminist’ organizations, a total anathema to radical and traditional feminists. Shock and awe set in when these historic feminist and civil rights organizations actively campaigned to legislate a new reality where cross-dressing men are enshrined in law as society’s most newly marginalized victims. Males could compete in women’s sports, transfer into women’s prisons, invade our changing rooms and public bathrooms, and be handed “Woman of the Year” awards. Trans Non-Binary, Inc., massively well-funded, often by governments it sought to lobby, was a new force to be reckoned with.
Groups that once pushed for gay rights now steamrolled over their constituents to favor transgenderism, refusing to see the conflict they created. They eagerly celebrated ‘transbians’ – straight men who pretend to be women seeking to have sex with women, and target lesbians, who by definition, don’t have sex with men.
Protests were met with accusations of ‘genital preferences are transphobic’, ‘bigotry’ and ‘hate’, silencing free speech. Women and gay men lost jobs, positions on boards and commissions, and social standing for not going along with ‘inclusion’ of men as women. When transgender and non-binary identification shifted overwhelmingly to young women and girls, no historic major feminist organization raised an alarm bell. In a world of violent misogynist online pornography, shockingly low rape prosecution rates, intense social media pressure to curate one’s account for maximum sex appeal, and launch an OnlyFans page, anyone can see girls might be trying to escape sexualization and assault by identifying out of womanhood into transgender and non-binary status. In perhaps its most sinister move, Trans Non-Binary, Inc. skillfully infiltrated medical and psychiatric organizations to push sex-trait modification on young people and children, over the protests of parents.
The ACLU went so far off mission that they eagerly died on the hill of advocating for sex trait modifications for children before the Supreme Court, in Skrmetti, despite major warning bells (1). During the hearing, the ACLU admitted there was no proof that sex-trait modification drugs and procedures administered to children prevented suicide, an oft-repeated lie used to pressure parents into accepting them.
Veering off mission into social justice causes that make little sense has consequences.
In July, National Organization For Women stated that it was unable to achieve a quorum in the annual conference, citing ‘irregularities’ in registration and voting. They shocked conference attendees by nullifying elections for president and vice president; abandoned all consideration of good resolutions, such as keeping men out of women’s prisons, ceasing the use of dehumanizing language to describe women, and protecting lesbian spaces; and abruptly adjourned the conference.
NOW donations fell from $4.9 million in 2020 to $2.9 million in 2023, though they still spend nearly $4 million annually. Could mission drift from defending and advancing women’s rights into trying to cater to every new whim of the progressive movement, who can seemingly invent infinite new genders and marginalized classes daily, have contributed to this loss of support?
The current NOW president wanted to resign, due to the organization’s toxic culture and her need to care for her young autistic son. (2) Any organization that does not support women in attending to the demands of motherhood is decidedly not feminist. As of this writing, the election of new officers at NOW is not settled, nor is the fate of the resolutions proposed.
UN Women received a massive backlash in 2024 after branding feminist organizations as ‘anti-rights’ for refusing to accept men as women. Women’s Liberation Front (USA) and MATRIA (Brazil) organized feminist groups around the world to call out UN Women and the UN Human Rights Commission, and insist they return to their mission: to accelerate gender equality (meaning women’s equality) and empower women and girls.
The Wall Street Journal article “Who Is Planned Parenthood Fighting For?”(3) reveals how trying to cater to every social justice group, particularly Trans Non-Binary, Inc., left it torn between its healthcare mission and progressive advocacy. Planned Parenthood is the second largest provider of cross-sex hormones in the USA, and stated before Congress that men can get pregnant. Clinics are shuttering across the country, even in blue states, due to Congress denying Medicaid reimbursements for other services to any organization that provides abortions, an intended death blow to Planned Parenthood.
A look at large feminist organizations’ tax returns, and the ACLU, shows a drop-off of support in recent years. Cleaving to the mission, when so much money was flooding in from Trans Non-Binary, Inc., might well have proven too difficult. However, the more the public learns about transgenderism, the less they like it, the opposite of what happened with women’s and gay rights, where increased public exposure led to greater support and acceptance among all demographics.
Witnessing large, legacy organizations like Planned Parenthood, National Organization For Women, and the ACLU falter is alarming in a time of geopolitical destabilization globally and in the USA.
Who will now carry the torch for women’s rights, and freedom of speech?
A small radical feminist non-profit that punches far above our weight class, Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) was founded 10 years ago, when its founder, Lierre Keith, a prominent radical feminist, saw legacy feminist organizations veer away from defending and advancing women’s rights. WoLF works to abolish prostitution, pornography, surrogacy, and male violence against women. We stand for reproductive rights, and seek to abolish ‘Gender’. WoLF is suing California for transferring male sex offenders into women’s prisons. The ACLU intervened in our case, in favor of the men. It’s surreal to fight the ACLU and Planned Parenthood to press the case for women’s rights in legislative sessions, at Congress, in federal court, in regulations, and before the Supreme Court of the United States.
New women’s rights groups and individuals emerged globally over the past decade, and some lodged big wins in the trenches one would have expected organizations like NOW to dominate in. For Women Scotland took their case to the UK Supreme Court that men with a “gender recognition certificate” are not women, and won. Sex Matters won a key UK sex discrimination vs ‘gender identity’ employment case. WDI UK provides a forum for women to collaborate and strategize globally. MATRIA is fighting for women’s rights to freedom of speech against ‘misgendering’ in a major Supreme Court case in Brazil. The Swedish Women’s Lobby won a key victory in extending Sweden’s ban on prostitution to OnlyFans. Zero women have been killed in prostitution in Sweden since 1999, demonstratively proving that Sweden’s Nordic model better protects women than decriminalization or legalization. Women’s Liberation Front supported age-verification laws for online porn in twenty five states, and defended Texas’ law at the Supreme Court. WoLF presented age-verification laws and the Nordic Model for prostitution at the 2024 UN Conference on the Status of Women. France is adopting age-verification, and the UK is looking to do the same. Italy, France, Germany and Spain banned commercial surrogacy. A campaign against femicide launched in Australia, where Sal Grover is also bravely fighting at the Australian Supreme Court for the right to have a woman’s-only app against Roxy Tickle, a man who calls himself a woman. Spain ushered in a new government and passed a raft of pro-women laws after Spanish women took to the streets to protest a judge’s dismissal of the videoed violent gang rape of a 14-year old girl.
Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls, is the strongest women’s rights advocate ever fielded by the United Nations. She produced top-quality reports that call out prostitution as an organized system of violence, letting men compete in women' s sports, silencing women, the deliberate overwriting of sex-based rights with ‘gender’, and surrogacy as commercial sexual exploitation of women. She’a an unrelenting voice for women and girls, and fearlessly faces massive opposition from the sex industry and Trans Non-Binary, Inc.,. who pushed the fallacies of ‘sex work is work’, and ‘trans rights are human rights’ on the UN.
This is the real battleground for women’s rights, and tiny, fierce women’s rights organizations and individuals fight in the trenches, picking up where legacy organizations that drifted far off mission lost the very rights they were organized to protect. We eschew slides into partisanship, as we’ve been shown repeatedly that no party has women’s backs, and thus, their survival is not our concern. Women must relentlessly press our case that we are a priority, as we are half the population and must share equally in wealth and power. Parties will respond, if they want to keep being elected.
How long of an endarkenment from the rollback of women’s rights are you willing to endure? Five years? Fifty? Five hundred? Think now of your daughter, and all the daughters to come.
Now is your time to stand up. Join us, and help us make this a world where women and girls can thrive.
(1) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/magazine/scotus-transgender-care-tennessee-skrmetti.html
(2) https://19thnews.org/2025/05/national-organization-for-women-president-departing/
(3) https://www.wsj.com/us-news/what-is-planned-parenthood-fighting-for-ddf1de65?st=oHZRT8&reflink=article_email_share