And finally, let's cap this bitch by pointing out that NED here is backing abusive people who work with the religious right.
I give you Amy Dyess, a butch lesbian and former gender critical adherent. She brought receipts.
They used fear mongering and misrepresentations to manipulate us into believing lesbians were under attack, that our own greater community was silencing and erasing us. There was nonstop criticism of the left, postmodern queer culture, and LGBTQ+ publications and organizations.
We were constantly triggered. Now I realize we were used as pawns in a culture war. It was never about defending and strengthening lesbians. The goal was to divide our community.
I reviewed approximately thirty thousand screenshots I took during my time in the GC movement, and it was an emotionally difficult task. Today I see the propaganda for what it is, but back then my living situation was unstable. I had to auto camp (sleep in my vehicle) to make ends meet, and I’d recently had a window broken while I was showering at the gym. Meals were inconsistent and I was usually tired, so I was vulnerable to GC fear mongering propaganda.Radical feminists and AfterEllen had already influenced me on Tumblr in 2017 with posts and articles that made me think lesbians were under attack. Now I know that was most likely due to Jocelyn Macdonald’s influence as assistant editor. She’s a radical feminist who supports WoLF (Women’s Liberation Front), an organization that claims to be feminist but works with far right groups who are against women’s and LGBT rights. WoLF called Macdonald a “trusted friend.”To be clear, Macdonald was not my recruiter. We were connected on Facebook and she supported my punk protest song in 2019, but we no longer talk. My original recruiter won’t be named in this article because she’s threatened to harm me if I identify her or show her avatar. She has global influence and has been mocking my story, daring me to publish. JK Rowling recently supported her work, which was disturbing. I wanted to tell this story, so I chose to censor her name and image.Though I considered working with Republicans, I didn’t go through with Natasha Chart’s suggestion. Now I know they’re religious right people, not regular conservatives. WoLF, Chart, and Emily Zinos had been following me and supporting my work. Chart and Zinos were also in Hands Across the Aisle. Various people suggested I join the organization, but I was dating one of WoLF’s founding members, Terri Strange. The best advice she ever gave me was to avoid them.I could go on.Julia Beck and I became friends. We considered forming a lesbian liberation party and running for president and vice president together. She wanted to join my band, and we would often sing to each other over the phone to work on my music. Sometimes we flirted a little, but that ended after she got a girlfriend on her London visit. She went there in May 2019 to panel at Lesbians on Chairs, which was hosted by Posie Parker. I didn’t approve of the event because it was an attack on almost everything I loved about lesbian culture. They promoted the harmful idea that women can “choose” to be lesbians and strategically deny men sex. That panel was a huge red flag.