Now that Kellie-Jay Keen has announced plans for a UK Women’s Party of some sort, her politics become especially relevant. The UK homes ongoing social prejudice towards many ethnicities, especially Muslims, with women often bearing the brunt of anti-Muslim sentiment and public aggression.
How feminists respond to this is a key test … one to which we should not respond by throwing any/all women’s interests under the bus simply to support a trans-critical candidate.
Hypocrisy, racism and the political consequences of personal choice in the gender-critical movement
It will not be news to anyone following gender-critical debates that a major cleavage within this movement occurs over the question of alliances with right-wing politics. The majority of people involved in the gender-critical movement appear to support allying with the right due to the mistaken idea that there is agreement between feminists and right-wing ideologues on transgender issues. A minority oppose such alliances, pointing out the right’s consistent misogyny and its deep opposition to women’s liberation. This latter group argue that, despite the misogyny of the left movement in its current form – as manifested most prominently in its support for “sex work”, pornography, and the rights of transgender people over those of women – feminists should continue to adhere to leftist principles. And, despite the practical impossibility of working with the left in many circumstances…
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'Gender' hides the problem 