Kara Dansky

Kara Dansky is an American lawyer, public speaker, writer, and consultant. Dansky is best known for her gender-critical activism. She is the president of the American chapter of the gender-critical group, Women's Declaration International. From 2016 to 2020, she served on the board of Women's Liberation Front, which has also been described as gender-critical.

In November 2021, she published "The Abolition of Sex: How the 'Transgender' Agenda Harms Women and Girls". Dansky graduated with a Juris Doctor Degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a Bachelor of Arts from Johns Hopkins University.[1]

Education

Dansky received a BA from Johns Hopkins University and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.[2]

Career

Dansky was the executive director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center at Stanford Law School.[3] While director, she focused on linking the work of those in academia studying criminal justice with policy makers.[4]

In 2014, Dansky authored the ACLU study War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing which concluded that the increasing application of military tactics and weapons by American police was unnecessarily putting civilians at risk of injury and death.[5][6][7][8]

In 2015, Dansky appeared in the documentary film Peace Officer which explores the militarization of police in the United States through several incidents that occurred in Utah.[9]

From 2016 to 2020, Dansky served on the board of the Women's Liberation Front.[10] She has appeared on Tucker Carlson's Fox program to discuss her views.[11]

In 2020, Dansky testified in support a bill in the South Dakota legislature that would ban the prescribing of hormones or sex-reassignment surgery for transgender youth.[12]

In 2021, Dansky authored the book The Abolition of Sex: How the 'Transgender' Agenda Harms Women and Girls.[13]

In 2023, Dansky published The Reckoning: How the Democrats and the Left Betrayed Women and Girls.[14]

Dansky is the current president of the American chapter of Women's Declaration International.[15]

Dansky has partnered with May Mailman of the conservative Independent Women's Forum in working to define male and female in law according a definition rooted in biology. Mailman has called TERF activists, particularly Dansky, as the main intellectual force behind the effort, stating that "the ones that were really driving the charge and had just a lot more knowledge and background, and had been thinking about these issues, writing about these issues, for such a long time, tended to be people on the left."[16]

Personal life

Dansky is a Shambhala International certified meditation instructor.[17]

References

  1. ^ Conservatives find unlikely ally in fighting transgender rights: Radical feminists The Washington Post February 7, 2020
  2. ^ Dansky, Kara. "Local Democratic Oversight of Police Militarization" (PDF). Harvard Law & Policy Review. 10: 59–75. Archived from the original on November 6, 2019. Retrieved March 10, 2026.
  3. ^ "Attorney to ask for mental evaluation of Hillsdale High bombing suspect". ProQuest 352435659.
  4. ^ Of Crime and Punishment Stanford Magazine November/December 2007
  5. ^ ACLU: Militarized SWAT teams treat citizens as an enemy Al Jazeera March 18, 2015
  6. ^ Spring 2015, Bret McCabe / Published (March 5, 2015). "Does the militarization of American police help them serve and protect?". The Hub. Retrieved May 16, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ "Report warns SWAT units are over-militarized, hyperaggressive". June 25, 2014. Retrieved May 16, 2024.
  8. ^ "Police Militarization Is Out of Control, and There's No Oversight". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved May 16, 2024.
  9. ^ Mann, Court (July 27, 2020). "An old Utah documentary about police violence hits even harder now". Deseret News. Retrieved March 10, 2026.
  10. ^ "One Feminist's Perspective on How the Transgender Agenda Harms Women & Girls | IWF". December 10, 2021.
  11. ^ January, Brianna (May 10, 2019). "Doreen Denny takes anti-trans talking points she used at Heritage Foundation to bigger platform: Fox News". Media Matters for America.
  12. ^ "South Dakota bill restricting medical treatment for transgender youth passes first major vote". The Washington Post. January 22, 2020.
  13. ^ "The Atlas Society Asks Kara Dansky with the Atlas Society".
  14. ^ Showalter, Brandon; writer, Opinion; Commentator, Social (February 13, 2024). "'The Reckoning: How the Democrats and the Left Betrayed Women and Girls' (book review)". www.christianpost.com. Retrieved May 16, 2024.
  15. ^ "Supporters of women's rights 'reject belief systems' that humans can change sex". April 4, 2023.
  16. ^ Pauly, Madison. "Meet the mastermind behind Trump's definition of "woman"". Retrieved March 10, 2026.
  17. ^ "Kara Dansky".
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