Conservative activist Riley Gaines said on Saturday that “transgenderism,” “sexual liberation,” and abortion have “nothing” to do with women’s rights, issuing a warning about a “dangerous” feminist movement in the country.
Gaines, a former NCAA championship swimmer-turned-women’s sports advocate, argued women have been lied to for decades about these issues through “propaganda” at day three of Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest, the conservative organization’s annual conference.
“Calling these movements ‘feminism’ is not only inaccurate but it’s dangerous, destructive,” she said. “Feminism promised empowerment. But you know what it delivered? It delivered emptiness.”
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Gaines said the feminist movement “sold” women “lies” about motherhood.
“It sold women the lie that children are burdens, that family is a limitation and that fulfillment comes from self-centered autonomy rather than self-giving love,”
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