05/11/2025
Aurora Linnea reviews WDI USA's convention in Indianapolis. Women's Declaration International USA
"This year’s convention was WDI USA’s fourth, its theme, “Growing the Women’s Liberation Movement.” In line with this theme, there was from the first moments a pronounced emphasis on galvanizing women to get organized locally, in their own communities. Dinner on Friday was seated by region, to foster connections between women well-positioned to collaborate offline and in the flesh. This was followed by a structured networking session (which I confess I did not attend, my negligible social faculties exhausted by that juncture, though I fully support such activities in theory); and, glancing through the schedule of events, I was pleased to note talks and workshops on creating in-person women’s groups and gatherings, on taking local action, eager as I am for dissident women to prowl further and further out from behind our screens, to take up more physical space in the real live material world.
Kara Dansky spoke Friday after dinner about the present state of the feminist movement to halt what she terms transgenderism’s “abolition of s*x,” charting our progress in relation to the nonviolent social change activist Bill Moyer’s Movement Action Plan. Dansky placed us at Stage 6: “Majority Public Support.” It is now a fact that the larger part of Americans support single-s*x spaces, services, and sports for women; most Americans believe that a person’s s*x is a question of biology, not personal affinity; the chemical and surgical remodeling of children’s bodies in deference to patriarchal s*x-role stereotypes is frowned upon by more Americans than celebrate it. As we would learn from a later panel of young women formerly seduced by transgenderism’s promises of escape from lowly femaleness, the number of detransitioners and desisters has also seen a rapid increase in recent years, with detrans subreddit populations roughly ten times what they were in 2019. Yet majority public support, as Dansky reminded us, is not success. Too much power remains on the side of men determined to advance male entitlement and medical industry profiteering at the expense of women and girls’ safety, well-being, dignity, and bodily integrity. Misfortune awaits: as long as male rule endures, men’s egos and earning potential will reign supreme.
But it was also obvious to me that women are feeling far closer to success today, in 2025, than they were three short years ago, when I traveled to Washington D.C. for the first WDI USA convention in 2022. Undeniably, a dramatic shift in the collective energy has taken place: not so many women are in hiding now. Fewer women are gagged by the hypervigilant self-consciousness that for too long held us mute; we are not so wary now, not so reticent and shrinking, like dogs who stop mid-bark for fear of the scolding blow abuse has taught them to see coming."
Aurora linnea writes about the WDI USA convention she attended in Indianapolis in September, 2025.
