In the US, we also risk our health insurance. And we don't have the social safety net to fall back on that many other countries have.

Yesterday, I was reading about the latest attack on US feminists by a British feminist (for being "allied" with the Christian Right) - I think one of the factors that a few British GC feminists (thankfully just a few) don't get about the restrictions on GC feminists in the US is that it's not just our jobs, it's health insurance for ourselves and sometimes our dependents. And we'll be out on the street.

Also, we don't have a parliamentary system of government in the US, just the two parties, and the Democrats and the media that's not Far Right, as well as academia, corporations, etc., have bought into gender ideology hook, line and sinker.

So we have no one to turn to for allies except for other women, some conservative (and they often make great allies because they are fierce) and sometimes organizations like Alliance Defending Freedom. ADF was the only organization that would take the Title IX boys in girls' sports case - everyone else - all those liberal organizations - abandoned women.

The US is also a huge country. Most of us can't just pop on a train and meet up with other GC feminists in an hour like many of the UK feminists can, so almost all of us are protesting by ourselves. And many parts of the US are radically different from others - we have 50 states and many, many different cultures - so it makes political coherence even more difficult.

WoLF has explained their alliances with right wing groups very well, and proven that it hasn't turned WoLF into some kind of homophobic, anti-abortion organization - it's just that a few GC feminists in the UK just don't seem to want to understand the incredible obstacles US feminists face.

Anyway, that's my mini-rant because I really feel attacks on US feminists by GC people outside this country have no idea of the mountain we are climbing, mostly alone.

We women need to ally across politics and across countries, and stop judging each other, because we are fighting for our lives and our girls' lives.