In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieces here.They are unapologetically pro-abortion. They view gender as a tool of the patriarchy used to oppress women. And they have the ears of Republican lawmakers in Washington, D.C.Meet the Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF), a self-described group of “radical feminists” who seek to abolish the societal construct of gender, believing it is a hierarchical caste system that upholds male supremacy and subjugates women.
As opposed to more mainstream feminist organizations that accept transgender-identifying biological men as women, gender abolitionists like WoLF believe in the material reality of sex and that men cannot become women simply because they say so.
Such beliefs have earned sex realists in the feminist movement the label, “trans-exclusionary radical feminists,” a pejorative term meant to cast so-called TERFs as intolerant bigots for wanting to protect female-designated spaces from the intrusion of biological males.
