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Why has feminism been, well more or less hostile to motherhood from its very beginning? What was its legal agenda and how has

feminism changed our language? Did any of this lead to transgender ideology?

Welcome back to issues etc. I'm Todd Wilkin on this Monday July the 8th. It's time to talk

about feminism and transgenderism. Dr. Carey Gress joins us, a fellow at the Ethics and Public

Policy Center, and author of several books including her latest the end of Woman

How Smashing the Patriarchy has destroyed us and a recent column for the Federalist

titled Three Ways Feminism laid the groundwork for transgenderism. Dr. Grasse

welcome back. Thanks so much for having me. It. Grass, welcome back.

Thanks so much for having me. It's great to be back, Todd.

Why do so many fail or at least refuse to see the connection between feminism and the transgender movement?

You know, I don't think it's incredibly obvious.

I think in a lot of respect some of the problem that we have in connecting the two is that we think

of feminism is a very kind of blanket term that's just been very beneficial to women and

we don't actually see the ideology that runs through it and has run through it for about 200 years now.

And because of that hiddenness and because we we tend to view feminism as this kind of

of benevolent grandmother we were reticent or it's you know it's very difficult to see how it could

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