Guest
Kara Dansky is a feminist, lawyer, and author of The Abolition of Sex: How the “Transgender” Agenda Harms Women and Girls. In this interview, Kara's shirt reads “infamous TERF writer,“ a label given to her by commentator Sam Seder after he reacted to an interaction on Twitter/X between Kara and Christopher Rufo. The conversation begins with rapid-fire commentary on feminism, surrogacy, pornography, and other issues that affect women. This sets up the rest of the conversation, which deals with the encroachment on women's rights by the trans and gender identity movement. Kara touches on the political aspects of this cultural battle, concluding that neither Democrats nor Republicans are truly making a difference in women's rights issues. She explains the dangers of gender identity ideology to the main goal of radical feminism: protecting women. Kara serves as the president of the US chapter of Women’s Declaration International and previously served on the board of the Women’s Liberation Front. She started her law and policy career as a public defender and went on to serve as executive director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center, senior counsel at the ACLU’s Center for Justice, and general counsel at the District of Columbia Sentencing Commission. Website: Book: Kara on X: Chapters 0:00 Intro 6:18 Concerns about transgender ideology's effect on women's rights 19:54: Acknowledging biological sex in law/policy 24:40: Erosion of women's rights in the name of inclusion 33:25: Trans ideology undermines women's interests 41:24: Trans rights effects in law/policy 48:32: Postmodernity's influence on trans issues 51:04: Real-world instances trans-inclusive policies 57:34: Kara's perspective on self-defense/protection ⸺SUPPORT MY WORK⸺ Newsletter | Donate | ⸺LINKS⸺ Podcast: “Conversations with Peter Boghossian“: Website | National Progress Alliance | Resignation Letter | ⸺BOOKS⸺ “How To Have Impossible Conversations” | =cm_sw_r_api_i_7DPKY2S21SSNAV8PCBW3_0 “A Manual For Creating Atheists” | =tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1664805100&sr=1-2 ⸺SOCIAL MEDIA⸺ Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | @peterboghossian All Socials | __________ #feminism #feminist #transgender #peterboghossian
