Extinction Rebellion posted a transwomen are women post. Hundreds of angry replies ensued, pointing out that anti-science positions like that are akin to climate denialism, etc.. XR removed the post, and then retweeted it sans the comments. I was disillusioned with XR for other reasons, but the fact that some wielding power, within XR, are gleefully throwing women under the bus, put me over the edge. I think some XR leaders, some factions disagree, but the TRA extremists are in ascension. Climate action is do-or-die. But women's rights, material reality, children's health, gay rights are too important to me. I cannot be part of such a regressive organization.
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I've always been to the left of the left broadly speaking but I believe in material reality and free speech so I can no longer vote Green and stopped my regular donations to Extinction Rebellion due to the crazy cultish woke politics of the local group and them tweeting about terfs
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A lifelong socialist and believer in equity, I am a live and let live ally to the trans community, but the push to eliminate the hard fought rights of women for an ideology built on queer theory sand has me lost politically as I can't be part of what is essentially a cult.
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I have been a labour supporter for 30 years... ever since I can vote in fact. However, all that has changed this year. Identity politics has revealed to me the deeply misogynistic undertones throughout the party. No party who are so keen to refer to women 'as a feeling', who fail to recognise the hard won sex based rights of women or are prepared to throw strong, feminist women under a bus has no place for me. No idea where I'll turn but as the greens and liberals are just as bad, they're out too. I suspect my voting days are over. My lesbian partner feels the same. My lesbian friends all feel the same. Women I know, all feel the same.
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​I'm working class, 50 years old and have voted Labour all my life. I've thought about voting The Green Party because of their environmental policies. It has been distressing and infuriating to see how ideologically captured 'progressive' (the irony) parties have become; ignoring women's and lesbians rights, voices, dignity and safety concerns as well as the safeguarding of children (that has horrified me) The vicious and misogynistic activism that has targeted any women who dissent or raise concerns (usually with compassion & a request for a reasonable discussion in an attempt to protect women's and trans rights) and how it has not been condemned by Labour or The Green Party is frightening. I am now politically homeless - how could I ever vote for a party that doesn't recognise objective reality? In some ways the dismissal of scientific TRUTH that has been known for millennia is what scares me most, it can only lead to chaos. I am so proud of all the women and men who are dedicating their lives to fighting this madness. Thank you - I know that many of you have suffered professionally and personally. I am in awe of your bravery and dedication.

​I feel so disillusioned as an American feminist. It seems more and more hopeless that we can pull together a large social movement or cultural shift to make progress in fighting misogyny and women's sex-based oppression. Dividing and silencing women while making us complicit in our own exploitation under the guise of "progressiveness" and "empowerment" serves the patriarchy. Strengthening the concept of female biology being something taboo and offensive serves the patriarchy. And yet the left has bought into it, hook line and sinker.

I'm a feminist, but I don't participate in "feminist movements" anymore. I'm bisexual, but I don't participate in "the LGBT community" anymore. I'm a liberal, but I don't participate in "the left" anymore. Living in a super liberal area with super liberal friends used to feel amazing to me, but it's increasingly feeling more uncomfortable as it becomes "woke" to suppress and erase women.

I kind of wish I'd never woken up to this. I used to be a liberal feminist (or "choice feminist") who bought into gender ideology completely. It was easier to be in line with the popular beliefs in my circles, instead of putting up a front and saying things I don't believe while hiding my true beliefs in order to keep from being seen as a bigot and ostracized. And it was a lot less painful not to understand how truly hopeless things are for women, how deep into the core of society our oppression goes, and how it's getting worse for us by the day.