I wanted to share my successes in quiet activism for women, in the hopes it will encourage more women to speak up for reality.

I was quietly GC for a while when JK Rowling released her essay, but the essay had a profound impact on me all the same. I saw the shit she was taking, the massive hit she took for all of us, and I felt I had to do something. But it was tough. I don't have much money, I have zero fame, and I have a job in a woke workplace that is only getting woker. Still, I resolved to do what I could, and everything I could.

Mainly, this has been talking to women (and a few men) in my life who I identified as safe. It still felt like a huge risk - I wasn't open to anyone and as we all know, being openly GC can be risky no matter what. This went really really well. How well?

The first person I talked to was my sister. I told her to read Rowling's essay, and she did, and luckily she completely agreed. So I had my first ally, and I spent hours on the phone to her, basically yelling about all the problems at the moment and the severe toll women are taking. Not only did I get an ally to talk with, but she went to her church, of which she is a very active member, and told all the women there to read Rowling's essay too. She tells me she often talks with women at her church about what's going on with women's rights. The women have even talked with the men, who don't get it, because it's so stupid ("how could anyone possibly decide sex isn't real?!" is the typical response there) but they've at least heard of the problems.

The next was my best friend, who I didn't realize had secretly peaked a while ago and, like me, had been too afraid to tell anyone. So I gained another ally. And she told her husband, and she told a mutual friend of ours, who immediately peaked and told her husband...

The third was my mother. It took a bit of explaining for her, but she went away, read Rowling's essay, and quietly told me she thought Rowling was hard done by, and had said nothing wrong. Nothing more really came there, but that's fine. Not everyone is going to spread it.

Then I found out yesterday that my mother has spent months quietly researching. She was all up to date on Keira Bell and the Equality Act. And I found out yesterday when she called me and informed me of how she was trying to explain gender ideology and the impact of sex at her neighborhood get together but, to quote her, "I had to explain what these people believe, and it's just so STUPID, I can't explain it, so they're looking at me funny because what I'm saying is just so STUPID!" So she told all her contacts and they've peaked too.

Out of quiet conversations with three identified "safe" contacts of mine, I've managed to peak probably over a hundred people, and I live in Wokeville. (I've spoken to more people but these were the first three and the ones I wanted to share.) I see a lot of women here who are upset that they can't speak out at work, or that we get our online accounts banned, or just that we're being silenced. These are all terrible things and they make me furious, but this "quiet activism," just talking to people in my life, and letting them talk to people in their lives, has really made me feel like I am making a difference. We know public opinion is on our side - we just get deplatformed and outspent at every turn. But they can't ever stop the quiet chats we have in our neighborhoods, and when people are made aware of what is happening, they're with us.

For the next year, I've made my personal goal to contact every single politician that publicly takes a position on women's sex based rights, in any bill, whether they be for or against. Politicians only get to hear from the loudest voices and unfortunately the current cults are against women's rights. We need to let them hear that there are people who care about women's sex based rights and do not want to see them eroded.