Are The TERFs Waking Up?

On 11/15/2021, a woman named Katherine M Acosta published an article to Substack titled “Blinded by the Right: Feminist Advocacy & Working with the Pluto-Theocracy.’” Acosta’s Substack bio says the following:

Sociologist, filmmaker, and writer. Co-chair of the WHRC USA during its early formation; currently assisting with a joint WHRC USA & KPSS project.

WHRC stands for Women’s Human Rights Council, an organization which declares itself “a group of volunteer women from across the globe dedicated to protecting women’s sex-based rights.” One of their members is a woman named Kara Dansky, who recently published the book The Abolition of Sex: How the “Transgender” Agenda Harms Women and Girls. (In case you still aren’t sure where she stands, the introduction is titled “The ‘Transgender’ Delusion (Observations of a TERF)”)

In Acosta’s article, she criticizes a number of things ranging from the Biden Administration to the Equality Act. However, after criticizing “trans activists,” she starts criticizing her own team, specifically making note of various TERF organizations and the connections they have to right-wing political organizations. The article ends with Acosta announcing her resignation from the WHRC, primarily due to fear mongering over Biden’s recent infrastructure bill. She argues that the movement she is a part of is buddying up with the worse…