Maia Arson Crimew leaked emails between transgender hate groups and right-wing US politicians on March 8th, 2023. One of the groups mentioned within the list was the Women's Liberation Front (WOLF), a self-described radical feminist movement that has taken action against transgender rights.
All emails with "womensliberationfront" mentioning the organization or as an email from the organization were picked and put into the following PDF:
The two people speaking for WOLF are Kara Dansky and Natasha Chart - They were both much more interactive within the emails than what the PDF makes it out to be and the original torrent would include that.
(Maia's Page, also given in first link)
Highlights for the Record
From: Jamie Shupe
Sent: 3/13/2019 5:06:43 PM
To: "Media Team" <media@womensliberationfront.org>
Subject: Re: Connecting Kara and Jamie
Hi Kara,
Our thoughts are very much aligned on this, my heart breaks too for these parents. I'm basically doing this for them. Your story is heartbreaking too. Ugh. I have a daughter and I can't bear to think about her going down this path, it's beyond comprehensible.
It's not lost on me about the friction within the lesbian community on this issue. I've seen Cathy Brennan criticizing WOLF for working with conservatives and religious elements, but that's the only way I see forward. It's also the only way I see to win this. And it's my strategy.
I know there's all sorts of talk about "losing gay marriage," but the way this is going there isn't going to be a lesbian community if the trans problem isn't stopped. As people fight over something that "might happen," more and more women just like the person close to you are getting sucked in and harmed. I feel like people need to start recognizing this immediate harm over the "possible harm."
My strategy is I am going to continue to build activism bridges and inroads with the right. I've come to believe they realize the trans problem is far more sinister than anything gay people are doing. They've definitely had my back and they've been using me to do as much damage as they can. You've no doubt seen that in the news. We shouldn't treat them like they're incapable of change.
On the legal front, keep this under your hat please, but I'm going after the judge for judicial fitness, the VA for medical malpractice and Social Security too for the things we discussed if I can get away with it.
If there's anything I can be of help with to you and your organization, please reach out. No one element of this is more valued than the other. We need everyone fighting on all fronts.
Thanks!
Jamie
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On Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 7:35:30 PM EDT, Media Team <media@womensliberationfront.org> wrote:
Hi Jamie,
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Here's a little bit of background. I came to this issue from a radical feminist perspective - the view that in order to fight misogyny, we have to be able to name the category women as adult human females. I remain fiercely committed to that cause. However, in the meantime, a few things happened. One is that someone very close to me (a woman) announced that she is trans. She came out as a lesbian many years ago, and about a year ago, she announced in an email that she is trans. I tried to engage in conversation with her, but she knows my views on this topic, and pushed me away. A few months after that, I learned (on Facebook, of all places), that she had gotten a double mastectomy. I was devastated. The other thing that happened is that when she announced that she is trans, I reached out to the Parents of ROGD Kids group. I am not a parent, but I felt like I needed some support. When I reached out to the ROGD parents group, I got connected with a bunch of parents in my area whose kids are on this path. These parents break my heart every time I talk with them. They are
just trying to save their kids from this. My point is that I come at this from several angles: my primary lens is the radical feminist one, but the issue has become deeply personal to me as well.
So, the question then becomes, is there some way that we could work together to break through the media's silence on this issue? I just don't know. Are you familiar with the Gender Critical Action Center? I know the organizers. They have been hammering away at the media.
My instinct is that it will be detransitioners, parents, and athletes who will break this open, not radical feminists, and I am okay with that.
I would love to hear your thoughts.
Kara
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From: Natasha Chart
Sent: 1/26/2020 3:09:56 PM
To: "Gary McCaleb" <mccgsm@gmail.com> ... [Removed, a long list of Emails]
Subject: Re: Opposition strategy outlined in article. Have suggestions? - Physician-Patient relationship
I think the sterilization abuse framework from our whitepaper on historical eugenics practices might be a good opening approach. It also addresses the main problem with blockers and hormones in younger patients, which is a lot more likely to be going on in SD, in the younger group of children covered by the proposed legislation.
http://womensliberationfront.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Eugenics-Then-and-Now-1-26-2020_formatted.pdf
I think keeping the focus on sterilization is valuable because it's already been recognized as a problem, & has already had a federal funding restriction enacted on it for over 40 years, for anyone under 21. It's a direct answer, as well, to the claim that the drugs used in gender procedures should be allowed because they're supposedly less invasive.
But they're in most cases going to be as functionally impactful as surgery when administered before maturation of the gonads. The effective metabolic difference between removing the ovaries or testes with surgery, or deactivating them permanently with drugs, is minimal. Menopause is about the same if it comes through organ shutdown or surgical means, though surgery is more abrupt.
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On 2020-01-16 07:08, Mary McAlister wrote:
Yes, and also point out that these procedures amount to involuntary sterilization of minors.
They cannot legally or psychologically consent. Their parents cannot give informed consent since the knowledge necessary for informed consent does not exist. The Supreme Court struck down laws providing for sterilization of serial criminals in Skinner v. Oklahoma and mentally incompetent adults cannot be sterilized even if their guardians consent without a court order. Are the ACLU and similar groups advocating for involuntary sterilization of children? Also their equal protection arguments are without merit. "Transchildren"
are not being treated differently from other children. In fact the opposite is true. This bill will ensure that "transchildren" have the same protections from dangerous medical experiments as do other children.
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 8:55 AM Natasha Chart < natasha.chart@gmail.com> wrote:
Agreed.
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On 2020-01-21 11:19, Natasha Chart wrote:
Exactly.
And even in the case of something like cancer, any sterilization is a side effect, rather than a goal, of a treatment for other purposes. There's no directive that children with cancer must be sterilized, and if doctors could prevent that outcome, surely they would. For no other type of child is that considered a humane end goal of treatment.
[Note from transgender archiver that transitioned as a minor: fertility preservation options were given to me at the clinic where I was receiving care, but the issue came in when insurance would not cover it and it would cost over $1000 each month. Making the issue, once again, the poor healthcare coverage those in the United States get and the ridiculous cost of medical care.]
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