My very first peak point was 20 years ago while I was in WLW party in a club. The party was inclusive, so that anyone who identified as woman could attend. It really bothered me that there was one TIM: white, middle aged man, who leered at me. His “feminine” make up and overly revealing clothing made me shiver. I had come specifically to see other women, not guys in dresses. I was fed up with men anyway, not least because of the men that wanted to tell me how to live my life when I was growing up.

I have a very conservative religious background. Because of that I was (and still am) in closet for my parents. I lost most of my relatives and everyone I grow up with just because I wanted to use make up, wear whatever I felt like, color my hair, use contraception… The list goes on. I found a lot of comfort from feminism. It helped through the horrible, dark years being shunned and alone. To no one’s surprise that religious group was led by men. Men hardly had to limit their life, while women were constantly pregnant and taking care of home and babies. The contrast with rest of the society was clear, although back then the whole society was more or less unfriendly towards women. We had and still have it quite good, though – Nordic countries are a good place to be at compared to lot of countries in the world.

Fast forward to couple of years ago. I was trying to attend a libfem environment, thinking it had something to do with the feminism I learned about as a young girl. To my horror they had no interest whatsoever towards recognizing the fact that there are thousands of women living in these closed communities. Leaving almost everything behind is horrible, even though these Christian communities do not actively harass or threat people who leave. This was totally irrelevant from the libfems point of view. It was labelled as something that should not even be talked about. It felt horrible that I could not identify as a feminist anymore.

JKR was the final point of me peaking. I read what she wrote, and it all made sense. After that I found GC and realized just HOW bad things are elsewhere. It makes me so angry that these men think they know what it is to be a woman. It is unbelievable that libfems are praising these abusive people, make it even harder for anyone to speak up.

TRA are attempting to change the legislation here as well. I have started my own little terfing campaign telling people what I know about how it is in the US and Britain. I have “by accident” started to wonder the state of things with some of my friends. The examples have been very eye opening for all of the people I have talked with. Majority of people have no clue about what is going on. Well well, some of them will know soon.

I am overly happy to find actual feminists. Thank you all for being here. Women for women. 😊