Megan Rose

Mostly here for women and girls. Sometimes also cats and gardens.
Still hoping my Democratic Party will see the light.

[Suzy Eeckelaerts @SEeckelaerts]

No, that's not what I'm claiming. Rather: sex means the same thing for sheep as it does for humans.
A ewe is a sheep of the female sex.
A woman is a human of the female sex.
Female sex = reproductive teleonomy oriented toward egg-cell production.
That's all. Gender identity is irrelevant to sex.

[Megan Rose @MeganYRose]

@Noahpinion US transactivists are just as obscene and threatening as their UK counterparts.

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[Megan Rose @MeganYRose]

@BruceRo02959640 @Noahpinion Posed for a photo with @jk_rowling , who knows that women and girls are female and is not afraid to say so.

[Kara Dansky @KDansky]

Popular narrative emerging: "No one was speaking out about sex and gender 10 years ago, but people are doing it now that it's safe and okay to do so, YAY!"

That's not accurate. There were plenty of people speaking out about this ten years ago and more.

We were ignored because we are feminists.

A lot of people like to ask "WHERE ARE THE FEMINISTS???" The answer is that we have been here the entire time. The media largely ignores us. When they pay attention to us at all, they pretend we're right-wing bigots (knowing full well that we're not).

It's a bit disingenuous to ignore everything we have said for over a decade and then sort-of casually wonder where we are.

A radical feminist named Janice Raymond published a book titled "The Transsexual Empire" in 1979, warning everyone about what was coming. She republished it in 1994 with a new Introduction about the emergence of the word "transgender."

Julie Bindel was writing about this stuff at least as early as 2004 (Google "Guardian Gender Benders Beware" if you don't believe me).

Radical feminist groups met in London in 2012 and 2013 to discuss the problem and spoke out then.

In the US, Lierre Keith founded the Women's Liberation Front (@WomensLibFront) in 2013. I joined it in 2015, and joined the board of directors in 2016. That year, WoLF sued the Obama Administration over its interpretation of Title IX. It filed countless legal briefs between 2016 and 2020, when I left the board of the organization. It's still going strong.

In 2014, a radical feminist named Sheila Jeffreys published "Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism."

@WDI_USA launched in 2020. I was president and a member of the board of directors from 2021 to 2024. It has filed briefs in over half the US Court of Appeals and before the Supreme Court several times.

I have written two books on the topic: The Abolition of Sex: How the 'Transgender' Agenda Harms Women and Girls (2021) and The Reckoning: How the Democrats and the Left Betrayed Women and Girls (2023).

I'll be making a record of all of this activism in an upcoming book titled TERFLandia: How the Global Terven Will Win the Gender Wars.

All of the radical feminists who have been speaking out about this would be happy to talk to the media. Very few invitations have been forthcoming.

The problem is not that no one was speaking out. It is not that we were insufficiently "bold," as has been alleged. The problem is that we were ignored.

The nonsense would have ended YEARS ago if people had listened to those of us know have been on the case for a very long time. But they didn't.

I will end this with a special shout-out and a thank you to May Mailman, who gave an interview to Mother Jones magazine earlier this year regarding her work in getting the recent executive orders out and crafting a model bill to protect women and girls as a sex class. The published article includes this:

'Sometimes known as trans-exclusionary radical feminists, or TERFs, activists like Dansky believe that women’s rights will be lost if the category of “women” includes people assigned male at birth. They’ve pushed for decades to exclude trans women from women’s spaces. (Some who adhere to these views—including, famously, Harry Potter author JK Rowling—consider the TERF acronym a slur and describe themselves as “gender critical”; others embrace it.) Mailman tells me that TERF activists, particularly Dansky, were the intellectual force behind the effort to enshrine sex definitions. “The ones that were really driving the charge and had just a lot more knowledge and background, and had been thinking about these issues, writing about these issues, for such a long time, tended to be people on the left,” she says. (Dansky, in an email, says she did not contribute directly to the model bill’s language or strategy, though she does call Mailman an “extremely intelligent lawyer.” Like Mailman, she doesn’t believe that enshrining sex definitions could turn back the clock on women’s equality under the Constitution. “Radical feminists are gender abolitionists who fully support women who do not conform to sex stereotypes,” she writes.)'
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[Why Lie @TheNewBacklash]

Identifying as "non-binary" presumes others are binary, which is to say, it presumes most humans conform to sexist stereotypes.

But we're all non-binary, because male & female are biological categories, not personality types.

Kindly stop equating an opposition to sexism with an opposition to gay rights.

It's ridiculous.

[Ms Terfy Teacher @TerfSchool]

Why is it ok for other categories to be verified but not female sports?

“Imagine any of these categories without verification:

- Weight classes but no weigh-in for athletes
- Para athletics but athletes do not submit any medical documentation
- Age categories but no verification through ID, based on self-reported age only
- A ban on PEDs but no drug testing conducted”

[Megan Rose @MeganYRose]

"This is not finished until the material reality of sex is restored in every way. And, this is not finished until women as a sex class are free." 👏👏👏

[Kara Dansky @KDansky]

I am very happy that we are winning on sports. It's great. Men and boys have no business being anywhere near women's sports or locker rooms.

I'm glad the US Supreme Court saw sense and ruled that states may maintain single-sex sports. Great!

In America, we never would have gotten here if it were not for groups like @icons_women, the business @xx_xyathletics, athletes like @sophaller, or the world class @Martina.

Globally, there are so many more women who have gotten us to where we are on sports. @FondOfBeetles, @coachblade, and @sharrond62 come to mind immediately.

And the radical feminist groups that have been fighting this for years. @WDI_USA has been on the scene since 2020. @WomensLibFront was founded in 2013 and sued Obama over Title IX in 2016.

There are so many more!

Point of order, though: We CANNOT win on sports and then rest on everything else. We will not be finished when sports are won. This is going to be a long slog.

The vast majority of media outlets are still lying to everyone about the material reality of sex. There are still "gender clinics" harming people. Schools are still teaching kids that they may have been "born in the wrong body." Not a single federally elected Democrat has stood up and said, simply, "A woman is an adult human female."

This is not finished until the material reality of sex is restored in every way. And, this is not finished until women as a sex class are free.

[Megan Rose @MeganYRose]

@sappholives83 Transvestite is clear to the uninitiated without reifying the concept of gender souls.

[Kara Dansky @KDansky]

This is excellent, @sophaller. Well done, and thank you!

Also, you don't have to say "biological men." Men are men are men. Including the ones who call themselves "trans."
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[Sall Grover @salltweets]

Men & boys are not women or girls, and it isn’t hate to say it.

[Sarah Phillimore @SVPhillimore]

Because not all females give birth but only females can. It is an exclusively female activity. This doesn’t mean women must give birth. But men never, ever can.

[Megan Rose @MeganYRose]

@LisaSelinDavis Thank you for posting this!

Our family will be in your position soon, and it is so daunting trying to figure out which places might be relatively sane.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Amnesty is no longer the organisation that defended all who were persecuted for their freedom of speech. It has become a self-appointed, vainglorious policeman of wrongthink. It tweets out ideological slogans. It demonises those who disagree with those slogans. It intervened in FWS v Scottish Ministers, on the side of those determined to keep men in women’s prisons and rape crisis centres.

Some of us haven’t forgotten that Amnesty stopped supporting the since-murdered prisoner of conscience Alexei Navalny because they deemed he’d said unacceptable things in the past. They reversed that decision due to public backlash, exactly as they withdrew the recent defamatory report, before I or anyone else had responded to it, because they panicked on seeing the reaction. A cynic might think they changed their minds on both occasions, not on principle, but because they were afraid of losing money.

You cannot be simultaneously an impartial defender of freedom and speech and a wealthy international witch hunter that publicly vilifies and intimidates small campaigning groups with whom you disagree. As for ‘silencing’ Amnesty, I have neither the power nor the desire to do so. I want them to explain as loudly and extensively as possible why they are using their might and formerly lustrous reputation to attack small non-violent campaigning organisations with legally protected beliefs.

[Megan Rose @MeganYRose]

@daveweigel When feminists including a rape survivor met with Fetterman aide Jason Smith, he compared their concerns about males in women's prisons to a belief in UFOs, and told them they should leave the Democratic Party.

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[WomenAreReal @WomenAreReals]

Today’s @nytimes essay, @VinesMatthew’s June 2026 “I’m Gay, Not Queer.” and @sullydish’s June 2025 essay all point to a growing realization in the liberal cohort that something is wrong.

Now it’s time for the New York Times to publish the perspective that has been missing in liberal spaces throughout this debate. I call on @nytimes to publish a guest essay by a liberal woman who opposes men in women’s spaces. Preferably a Democrat. Maybe even feature a lesbian!! But, at minimum, an actual woman writing about women’s rights. I have a few in mind: @KDansky @JamieWhistle
@Martina
@ErinFriday75490
@KnownHeretic

[Megan Rose @MeganYRose]

@WomenAreReals Oh the poor little guy!

Why, why, why are we reorganizing society to accommodate "gender identity?" Practically everyone knows this is wrong!

[Wesley Yang @wesyang]

The reason the male rapist and murderer’s claim to be a woman is false is that all claims made by men to be women are false.

[Sam Morgan @CrunchAlias]

When men claim they are “trans” and use it to bypass women's consent, they have not discovered an identity or a diagnosis; they have discovered an excuse.

[Megan Rose @MeganYRose]

@wesyang No penalty yet. I have to wonder whether that changes as more voters see the real-life harms of these policies first-hand.

[Megan Rose @MeganYRose]

"If the law cannot acknowledge that women and girls exist as a discrete sex class, it cannot acknowledge that women and girls are fully human."

Women and girls are female. That matters in sports, and throughout our lives.

[Kara Dansky @KDansky]

Thanks so much to @thehill for publishing my piece about last week's (incomplete) win in the US Supreme Court.

P.S. The person in the image is a teenage boy named AB Hernandez, who has been competing in girls' sports for several years.
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