How Feminism and Trans Activism Sold Out Women – Opinion
From Liberation to Betrayal
Here’s what nobody admits: the two movements that claimed to “liberate women” — radical feminism and transgender activism — have ended up erasing them.
Feminism told women biology didn’t matter. Trans activism finished the job by declaring anyone could be a woman. The result? Women now lose their rights, their spaces, and even their name — all in the name of “progress.”
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From Liberation to Confusion
Early feminism fought real battles: the vote, education, legal protection. Those were victories grounded in the biological reality of being female.
But by the late 20th century, radical feminism had shifted into theory. “One is not born, but becomes a woman,” wrote Simone de Beauvoir — a phrase that seeded the idea that biology is irrelevant. From there, femininity itself became suspect.
Motherhood? Oppression. Homemaking? Submission. Feminism didn’t free women to choose — it dictated which choices were acceptable.
Trans Activism: Erasing Women Entirely
If feminism blurred the meaning of woman, trans activism bulldozed it. Self-identification now trumps biology: anyone can declare themselves a woman, no surgery, no transition, no questions asked.
That ideology has consequences:
- Sports: male-bodied athletes dominating women’s events.
- Prisons: biological males housed with female inmates.
- Shelters: abuse survivors forced to share space with male bodies.
- Language: “woman” replaced by “birthing person,” “menstruator,” or “uterus-haver.”
This isn’t progress. It’s erasure.
Who Pays the Price? Women.
The losers are predictable: women who trained for scholarships, women who survived male violence, women who want spaces of dignity and privacy.
Instead of protection, they’re told to stay silent — or be branded bigots.
Radical feminism and trans activism didn’t liberate women. They handed men the keys to women’s rights, dressed up as equality.
Why It Matters
Women didn’t fight for decades to be told their sex is irrelevant. They didn’t march for the vote so that men in wigs could claim their rights, their races, and their refuges.
The irony? Movements meant to fight male dominance ended up repackaging it. Biology still matters — and pretending it doesn’t is the biggest betrayal of all.
Visit our Women & Biology Explainer Hub to see how law, sport, rights, and safeguarding all collide with ideology.
FAQ
Q: What’s the problem with radical feminism?
It dismissed biology and traditional female roles as oppression, paving the way for “woman” to be treated as a social construct.
Q: How did trans activism build on that?
By replacing sex with self-identification, erasing the material basis of women’s rights.
Q: Isn’t this about inclusion?
In practice, it often means exclusion — of women from their own rights, sports, and spaces.
Q: Who pays the price?
Ordinary women: athletes, survivors, mothers, daughters. Those with the least voice.
Q: Why call it betrayal?
Because the very movements that promised to protect women ended up undermining them.
