A Letter to Ovarit
Where do I begin?
You were more than just a website. You were a sanctuary. You were a hearth where women who had "peaked," who had seen the world with suddenly clear eyes, could gather without fear. You didn't just host discussions, you nurtured a sisterhood of the aware. In a digital landscape that increasingly demanded silent compliance, you stood as a rare outpost where women could speak forbidden truths. You were a rebellion.
For many of us, you were the first place where we could say, "hang on. Is anybody else seeing this shit?" And instead of scorn or silence, we found nodding heads and shared fury. Most meaningfully of all, we found solidarity. You took the sting out of isolation and replaced it with the thrill of realizing, no, we are not crazy and we are definitely not alone.
You introduced countless women to ideas that had been buried under layers of stigma and social pressure. Porn isn't empowerment. Prostitution isn't a suitable job. Surrogacy isn't anything less than exploitation. Gender isn't some innate, mystical essence. A woman isn't pretty hair, a painted face, bright nail polish, "spinny" skirts, shaved legs, and high heels. In a society that dismisses us as fringe radicals for making these declarations, you were a space where we could speak them aloud without flinching. You gave us the language to name our unease, the courage to stand by our convictions, and the community to show we have strength in numbers.
You were a lifeline. You were a place where women could both posit theory and share stories of survival. Stories of male violence, reproductive coercion, objectification, suppression. You were a place where we could talk freely about experiencing the betrayal of a society that pretends to care about women while selling us lies. And all of it was met with understanding.
Even more freeing than the understanding was the humor. The memes and inside jokes and collective eye roll at the absurdity of it all. Even in the darkest discussions, there was always room for the kind of laughter that only women who've seen through the nonsense can share. Even in exile, we learned to wield wit as both shield and sword in the neverending push for our rights.
You made radical feminism feel less like a distant academic concept and more like common sense. You allowed us to critique the industries that profit from female flesh and the institutions that traded our rights for performative wokeness. You allowed us to connect the dots between erosion of language (“birthing people,” “sex work”) and erasure of women’s liberation.
Now that you're gone, the internet feels a little colder. But what you built doesn't disappear just because your space has closed. You were a spark in the dark that set a fire. The women you've woken up, and the ideas that you set loose into the world, will remain. The conversations you started have spilled onto other platforms, into living rooms, and into mainstream discourse.
Thank you, Ovarit, for being our haven when we needed it most. You were proof that women's voices, no matter how out of step with the current cultural zeitgeist, deserve a place to gather and to resist.
First they laugh at you, then they ignore you, then they fight you, and then you win.
You were proof of that. We were mocked and maligned, but we kept speaking. And because we kept speaking, more women found their voice and joined the conversation. And because our conversation got louder, the cultural paradigm was forced to start shifting.
Now, as we move forward, we carry that same unshakeable resolve with us. We'll share what we've learned. We'll support our sisters still finding their footing. We'll build new spaces. We'll tell the truth shamelessly. And we'll never apologize for defending women's dignity. Your forum may be gone, but the fight isn't. And we'll make sure your legacy isn't just a memory, but momentum.
And now for our regularly scheduled programming…
Call to Action
Women’s Declaration International’s USA chapter (WDI USA) will be hosting their 2025 Annual Conference Sept 21-21 in Indiana. Registration is now open.
(UK) Nordic Model Now!, an advocacy group for implementation of the Nordic Model approach to prostitution, will be hosting a fundraising party in Central London Wed, May 21, 5pm-midnight. Purchase tickets at Eventbrite.
Good News for Women
April 29 - Congress honors Six Triple Eight, the Black, all-female WWII unit
The unit cleared 17 MILLION pieces of mail in just three months to ensure servicemen nd their loved ones could stay in touch, working under the mantra “no mail, low morale.”
Erasing Women and Women’s Safe Spaces
April 26 - (UK) Transgender women should not be allowed to use female toilets, according to the government's equality watchdog
The Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) issued their guidance to charities and public sector organisations following the UK Supreme Court's ruling that trans women – men who identify as female – are not women under the law.
April 25 - (UK) Teenage boys allowed on girls’ hospital wards under NHS gender rules [Archived Link]
NHS hospitals across England currently still let teenage boys use girls’ facilities if they identify as female, even if their parents disagree and despite the Supreme Court’s recent ruling. We all must remember—despite legal wins, the trans mind virus is tougher to root out than a Covid epidemic. Our work is NOT over.
April 25 - (UK) Milli Hill’s Excellent compilation of the erasure of women from language and life since August 2023
This catalogue by Milli Hill documenting evidence of erasure of “women” from language and life is golden.
April, 2025 - Student government Rochester Institute of Technology successfully petitioned for menstrual products in male bathrooms
In another sign of our higher education failure, the unscientifically minded students at RIT, in partnership with their ideologically captured administrators, are launching a pilot program to install menstrual products dispensers in men’s bathrooms. They anticipate this program to expand. Do people still wonder why the public has lost trust in academic institutions?
Silencing Girls, Women, and Their Supporters
April 27 - The End of Ovarit
If you didn’t find your way here from the website Ovarit (or if you never found your way there from our newsletter), you may not know what the site was. Ovarit was born from the censorship of the subreddit r/gendercritical, one of the first large spaces where people, mostly women, gathered to collectively ask WTF? in the face of gender ideology’s tightening stranglehold on Western society. While criticism of Trans Rights Activists was often what initially brought women to the site, the site was fundamentally a radical feminist-inspired space that hosted discussion on all issues affecting women’s liberation. After five years, the site closed this past weekend. Big shout out to the women who devoted so much energy into building and maintaing that much needed space. The site itself is gone, but there is an associated Substack.
April 26 - (AUS) Wild scenes as women's rights protesters and pro-trans activists start a street brawl
The streets of Melbourne plunged into chaos after hundreds of Trans Activists clashed with police and the public to protest a Women's Voices Australia rally to challenge the Allan Government's proposed expansion of anti-vilification laws, which will undermine Australian women’s freedom of speech. Four police officers were treated for injuries and two protestors were arrested. Keep at it, folx! Keep showing everyone your violent authentic selves.
Males in Female Sports
April 29 - SFA bans trans women competing in women's football
The Scottish Football Association (SFA) has revised its rules so that only those who are born female can play in the women’s category of football! This comes in the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling that excludes trans-identifying men from the definition of woman. Later in the week, it was announced that England as well has joined in banning male competitiors in the female category of football.
Mwahahaha! Read the summary here (although the press release is short and simple). My personal favorite instruction to UPenn is that the school shall restore the awards stolen by men (looking at you, Mr. “Lia” Thomas) to their rightful female owners.
This fucking guy. Move over, Lia Thomas. Here comes Hugo “Ana” Caldas 👨🏻, who crushed it last weekend at the U.S. Masters Spring National Championships. Like Thomas, he entered multiple competitions, winning first place at least in the women’s 50-yard breaststroke for his age group at the time of this writing. His extensive accolades of women’s championship titles and records include:
7 individual national records and 6 relay records in U.S. Masters Swimming, earning 7 All-American honors
A USMS Pool All-Star title multiple times between 2010 and 2012
Women’s 45-49 100-meter freestyle world title at the World Aquatics Masters World Championships in Doha
Dominated the South American Masters Championships, setting 6 new South American women’s records and grabbing six medals across individual and mixed events — including setting a new FINA master’s world record in the 160-199 mixed 200m freestyle relay.
More are described in our linked article. Today, Caldas still holds 1 individual and 2 relay national records, along with a staggering 37 masters state records in Arizona and North Carolina. He is also racking up wins and world records in CrossFit and rowing. This is not normal. This is possible only because he’s a man competing in women’s sports. He’s a cheat.
Pornography, Sexual Harassment & Sexual Assault
April 28 - Bill criminalizing deepfake revenge porn passes House, heads to Trump’s desk
The Take It Down bill will make it a federal crime to create and publish, or threaten to create and pubish, sexually explicit deepfake media of real people.
April 24 - Britain gives websites hosting pornography until July to enforce age restrictions
The Office of Commuications (Ofcom) has set a deadline of July 25th for online platforms to reliably identify which of their users are children and to reconfigure their algorithms so that children are not exposed to pornography. Sites that fail to comply could be fined as much as 10% of their global revenue and be cut off through bank payments and internet service providers.
News Impacting Society and Children
April 30 - Amendments proposed to Colorado transgender legal protections bill
Outrage was enough to get Colorado state senators to back down, at least a little bit, on a bill intended to strengthen “protections” for those who identify as transgender. The bill originally would have categorized “deadnaming,” i.e. calling a person by his/her birth name, as a form of coercive control in family court matters, effectively reducing a parents’ access to their children if they didn’t adhere to gender ideology. Senators agreed to remove the family court provisions from the bill.
April 29 - Democrats reintroduce landmark LGBTQ nondiscrimination bill
Why, Democrats, why? Why are you continuing to run headfirst into this muck? This time the Dems are again attempting to revise the Equality Act to expand protected classes (sex, race, national origin, religion) to include sexual orientation (sure, no problem!) and gender identity (ughhh!).
This fact sheet outline steps taken since the January 28th Executive Order prohibiting federal funding towards medical transition of children.
April 28 - (UK) Doctors call Supreme Court gender ruling ‘scientifically illiterate’
Specifically, residents in the junior wing of the British Medical Association (BMA) have denounced the the Supreme Court Ruling. The organization as a whole is expected to respond to the ruling in June.
April 27 - The NHS will now test all 'trans' children for autism and evaluate their mental health
This is HUGE! But what it really does is go back to how things used to be. Before the insanity of the gender cult spun out into the mainstream, it used to be that health practitioners would offer extensive mental health evaluations and mental health treatment attempts to those who claimed they were transgender and who desired medical transition. It’s been known since forever that only a very tiny portion of kids in particular who say they are trans actually maintain that status long term, and it’s become obvious - and backed up by growing evidence - in the last few years that those who claim gender dysphoria tend to have other psychiatric disorders and/or are on the autism spectrum. Finally, a return to common sense treatment.
April 25 - ‘Protect the Dolls’ T-shirt becomes a fashion symbol for trans rights
The Trans Cult has added a new word to their lexicon. They now refer to men identifying as transgender affectionately as “dolls”. Will someone please unpack how all the sinister strains of this Men’s Rights Movement are wrapped up in this word? To begin: (1) masking of the male rage and violence of men cosplaying women and painting them as adorable and harmless; (2) infantilization of women by affirming these men’s idea of what a woman is, (3) infusion of pornography and fetishes into mainstream culture to the unwitting public.
Entertainment
Spoiler: he did NOT grovel to the trans clan. This in contrast to the multiple actors who signed a letter attempting to distance themselves from “anti-trans” rhetoric.
Op-Eds of Interest
Janice Turner: In the gender wars, it’s men’s turn to be kind
Sarah Baker: On Making a Spectacle
Victoria Smith: Trans activism is Progressive Man’s manosphere
Heather Rice-Minus and Hillary Blout: Incarcerated women deserve a second chance
Parting Shot…
Another safe space for women and girls is gone with the closing of Ovarit. But the landscape is much different today than it was when the site first went online. The walls are cracking. Britain enforcing age verifcation to combat porn exposure on minors, the NHS finally questioning why autistic girls are being fast-tracked to transition, sports federations drawing the line to protect women’s catgeories… These aren’t coincidences. These changes are the echoes of our voices. Each of our protests, whether a post or commentary in the digital realm or a public gathering to object misogynist policies, has succeeded in moving the needle.
Stay loud. Stay relentless. They want us to think we’re screaming in the void, but the truth is we’re shaping the future one battle cry at a time. Keep it up!
Your farewell to Ovarit was beautiful! So glad wahf is standing strong!
Ovarit as "a sisterhood of the aware" is so beautifully stated. Our Themiscyra. 🌙🔥🏹