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They Came for this Trans Woman First. Sister, You’re Next.
A 60-year-old transgender woman in South Dakota explains why every feminist alive needs to pay attention right now.
I am a transgender woman, and I am writing this from my home office in Sioux Falls.
That is not how I usually open something. I am a graduate student. I write papers with abstracts and reference lists. I cite my sources. But the moment I am in does not call for an abstract. It calls for a conversation, woman to woman, across whatever distance separates us, while we still have time to have it.
So, pull up a chair. Pour something warm. I want to tell you what is happening, why it should scare you, and why I think we are going to win anyway.
What Just Happened, and Why You Should Care
On January 20, 2025, the President of the United States signed an executive order with my name in the title.
Not literally my name. But people like me. The order, titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” does what the title says. It tells every federal agency that I am not a woman. It strips the gender markers off our passports. It pulls federal…
