Feminists in Struggle

Impressions from the WDI Convention, Growing the Women’s Liberation Movement, Sept. 19-21 2025

Posted on October 27, 2025 by feministwriter

by Denice Traina

This piece is the opinion of the author and does not necessarily reflect the positions of Feminists In Struggle as an organization.

It was such an immense pleasure to be in the same room with women who have literally been on the front lines, in the streets and the courts defending our sex-based rights as females. Some in the audience had been at it for some time , Donna Hughes and Lauren Leavy, while for others it was their first time participating in a women only conference! Women from all over the states from Montana, TX to NYC and Canada came together to share their knowledge, experiences, and stories and to learn from one another and most of all, to support one another. There were numerous opportunities for structured as well as non structured networking. Ask the karaoke crowd.

Kara Dansky, articulate as usual, opened the weekend with an update on progress made and the need for continued vigilance and push back against local and national policies that remain to be challenged formally in the courts and in the media in order to protect the sex=based rights of women and girls. She also made herself available for a book signing of her second book titled, The Reckoning.

The panels included a number of thought provoking topics, among them, Feminism in the Jewish and Muslim communities in Middle eastern countries involved in conflict, presentations on Desisting, Detransitioners, the seemingly successful fight to save women’s sports, the Effect of pornography on women’s lives and Advocacy Efforts to Protect women in Prison. One speaker presented an historical review and investigation into How to Combat Misogynoir in the Postmodern Era.

It was inspiring to hear from mothers of student athletes, coaches and the athletes themselves about how it felt to be forced to accept rules that might actually be harmful to women and girls and how organizations like ICONS, Independent Council on Women’s Sports, are helping to resist the insanity and support the sex-based rights of our young women.

It wasn’t easy to select which panels to attend, they were all very interesting.

The rally at the NCAA headquarters, Hall of Champions, was the perfect action to end the conference and to leave an otherwise welcoming city behind.

First Do No Harm Unity Rally

Posted on October 12, 2022 by feminist struggle

Feminists in Struggle was one of the many groups represented at the First Do No Harm Unity Rally at the American Academy of Pediatrics Convention in Anaheim on Saturday, October 8th to protest the medicalization of children by “gender-affirming care”. There was a great turnout and a lot of spirit! Women and men, gay and straight, young and old, groups from across the political spectrum, from Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights, California Legislative Council, Dykes on the Right, Partners for Ethical Care, to parents groups like Our Duty, which organized the rally, joined together in solidarity in the effort to protect children and youth from the harms of “gender-affirming care”, which medicalizes, sterilizes, and mutilates. Speakers included Julia Mason, M.D., Pediatrician; Scott Newgent; detransitioners Cat Cattinson, Chloe Cole, and Abel Garcia; and parents decrying this medical scandal.

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FIST FORUM: SAVING THE TOMBOYS FROM THE MEDICAL ATROCITIES OF CHILD “TRANSITION”

Posted on July 30, 2022 by feministwriter

The medical “transition” of gender non-conforming, mostly lesbian, girls has increased exponentially. How do we fight it?

JOIN US on AUGUST 13TH at 11:00 a.m.Pacific time, 1:00 p.m. Central, and 2:00 p.m. Eastern for this timely discussion of the harmful practice of medicalization of a growing number of gender non-conforming girls, a majority of whom are lesbian, through use of puberty blockers, wrong sex hormones, double mastectomies, and genital mutilating surgeries. Reserve your tickets now.

Girls are being taught that their non-conformity and same sex attraction mean they have been born in the “wrong” body, with the result that they pursue dangerous treatments before they even reach adulthood, causing permanent harm to their healthy developing bodies and turning them into life-long medical patients. Many of these girls will in a few years join the growing ranks of detransitioners and regretters. Is this the face of the new homophobia? How can we fight back and save new generations of tomboys, lesbians, and future feminists?

TICKETS ONLY $5 – SAVING THE TOMBOYS FROM THE MEDICAL ATROCITIES OF CHILD “TRANSITION” Tickets, Sat, Aug 13, 2022 at 11:00 AM | Eventbrite

SPEAKERS:

CAROL is an advisor for de-transitioned people, having gone through transition and de-transition herself. She is a co-founder of Detrans Voices: Detransition Stories, Resources, and Community and a member of LGB Alliance USA | Leading the Fight for Same-Sex Rights She currently co-facilitates a gender dysphoria support group for lesbian and bisexual women through LGB Alliance USA and continues to work on outreach and awareness around de-transition.

ERIN FRIDAY is a licensed attorney in California and the mom of a desister. She is co-leader of Our Duty, U.S. branch, a parent support group for parents of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoric kids.

T is the founder and national organizer of Lesbians United, a grassroots lesbian-only organization in the U.S. Lesbians United is creating public information campaigns both online and on the street to fight back against the anti-lesbian transgenderist movement.

ANN MENASCHE is a radical feminist, lesbian, socialist, political activist, and co-founder of Feminists in Struggle and Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights. Growing up in the 1950’s and 60’s, she seriously thought about “transitioning” when she read about Christine Jorgensen, because she yearned for the career opportunities and authority only available to men. The advent of feminism helped her to accept herself for the first time as she dedicated herself to women’s liberation and radical social change.

FIST’s Feminist Forums series are interactive and organizing events. At our forums, women have an opportunity not only to hear interesting speakers on a variety of feminist topics but to meet each other, make comments, ask questions of the presenters and discuss feminist politics together. We also usually tape the events so they may be viewed later. Women in attendance are free to shut off their cameras and mute themselves, should they prefer to do so. If you prefer to remain anonymous within the group, or plan to sign in under a different name from the name you have used for registration and purchase of your ticket, please contact the organizer prior to the event. Thanks.

While some of our events are open to both men and women, THIS IS A FEMALE ONLY EVENT. We ask that our male allies respect our right to meet together as women.