At the Young Women’s Leadership Summit, which was hosted in Texas by the conservative student activist group Turning Point USA this past weekend, podcast host Alex Clark told the audience that the feminism of the 1970s "fundamentally changed the narrative surrounding women, what our role should be."
“All these years later, I’m not sure that was very good advice. Are you?” Clark said.
“What I’m here to tell you is, if you were to just go back to biblical roots in what God had designed for women to do, we will be happier,” she said.
In a report for The Washington Post, Kara Voght writes that the summit's vision for young conservative women in America is for them to abandon birth control, get married, reject "woke" ideology, and to be "embracing a particular kind of American nostalgia, one where women’s liberation means being free from the complexities of modern gender politics."
But the summit's main underlying message, according to Voght, is viewing transgender women as a grave threat to womanhood.
“They ruin opportunities for women,” said summit attendee Heaven Angel Martinez, who added the topic of transgenderism is “absolutely” her top political issue.
"If you start mixing genders and we can’t identify what a woman is, a lot of other things become kind of blurry,” said Caroline Tepper, a student at the University of Michigan at Dearborn.
“This is a fight against cultural evils — against the erasure of women,” said Georgia Chapa, a student at Texas A&M University.
The transgender topic even took precedence over Donald Trump and his alleged political persecution. "The ballroom roared with approval, for example, when [Marjorie Taylor Greene] called for President Biden to be impeached — but it was the mention of her federal bill to criminalize gender-affirming care for transgender youth that earned Greene a standing ovation," Voght writes.
Read the full report over at The Washington Post.
