Originally a comment by Arty Morty on Time’s up.
Ugh, here’s the Alliance Defending Freedom again, putting itself at the centre of the gender-critical arena, because no one’s pushing it out. For those who don’t remember, the ADF is the theocratic, Christian Nationalist hate group that, among other odious doings, lobbies to criminalize and imprison gays and lesbians around the world. They work tirelessly across continents to stop governments from decriminalizing homosexuality or tolerating us in any way.
The gender mess on the left is doing catastrophic damage to the causes that need the left’s protection from the nastiest goons on the right. Because it’s alienating so many erstwhile allies, they’re all joining ranks with the goons.
It really doesn’t make the “gender critical” movement look good, that virtually everyone within it is turning a blind eye to the kinds of people who are jumping into the fray and aligning their brands (and the ideologies behind them) to this issue, no matter how much money these dubious organizations have to pour into the battle.
I wonder, if it were the Ku Klux Klan that filed these threatening legal letters rather than the ADF, would they have garnered the same endorsements from Davies and Edwards? Would Women’s Sport Union have been so quick to team up with them? Or would people have realized much sooner that no matter how much they may agree about the gender issue, their differences are far too grave, and some bedfellows are just not worth having at any cost? That it might have been better to tell the ADF to buzz off and stay out of it?
This looks to me like an obvious and terrible strategic mistake. But I’ve seen so, so, so, so many people’s politics turn to the dark side over this issue, it’s just another in a long line of sorrowful disappointments.
PS: and I can never repeat this enough times: the ADF are the ones who succeeded in killing Roe v. Wade.
Horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible bedfellows. Arrgh, wake up, people! *screams into pillow*