Perspective: Despite the acronym gaining prominence online, history shows that TERFs aren’t aligned with most feminists, Kelsy Burke writes.
Activists, most notably conservative Republican activist Phyllis Schlafly, opposed the ERA because of what they claimed was the scientific, religious and common-sense fact that women were fundamentally different from men.
“[T]he fact of life — which no legislation or agitation can erase —[is] that women have babies and men don’t,” Schlafly asserted in one of her newsletters. She and her allies warned that ERA proponents wanted to take away laws and policies that provided maternity leave and child support to women — rather than grant those same rights to men, as feminists envisioned.In other writings, Schlafly explicitly connected her opposition to the ERA to her opposition to the LGBT rights movement.
Ultimately, the campaign by Schlafly and her allies triumphed, and ratification of the ERA fell just three states short. Fifty years later, we’re once again hearing the same arguments about biological difference and the supposed unique abilities and legal rights of cisgender women and girls that Schlafly and her allies wielded in the ERA fight. That’s not surprising, because social conservatives are leading the fight
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