Commentary On May 12, 2021 the National Organization for Women (NOW) tweeted this: Trans women are women. They deserve equal opportunity, health care, a safe community & workplace, and they deserve to play sports. They have a right to have their identity respected without conforming to perceived sex and gender identity standards. We stand with you. It would be an understatement to say that this started a firestorm, and it only took 280 characters or less. Twitter lit up. I tweeted a few salty words hurled at NOW but tempered my rage by tweeting, “Mark this day in history. When women turned against women in favor of ‘women’ with penises. One transactivist commented on my tweet, saying I was being melodramatic. Melodramatic? One of the oldest and largest feminist organizations in the United States, just made the bold claim that biological men, who identify as women, are NOW women. Let …
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