Unless influential women stop empowering transactivism, ordinary women can’t stop its tyranny. Note: an edited version of this piece appeared in The European Conservative in August 2025. To gender-critical feminists, the social contagion of transactivism (enforced mainstreaming of trans-ideology) is all down to perverted men and their “misogyny.” Men started it, men must stop it. It’s a (white) male supremacist, men’s rights movement, privileging the reality-show of “gend

Note: a shorter, edited version of this piece appeared in Conservative Woman in May 2026 Antagonistic-revolutionary feminists (trans-exclusionary radical feminists/TERFs) applauded the April 2025 UK Supreme Court ruling as a blow to “the patriarchy, men and their misogyny.” It implied there are only two, immutable sexes; tempering, if not thwarting transactivism (enforced mainstreaming of gender ideology). Their qualified applause implied, "men are the problem." Understanda

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