Norwegian version

On Trans Day of Remembrance in 2025, twenty-five Norwegian/Nordic feminist organizations, political parties, and academic communities came together to issue a consensus statement in support of an inclusive feminism – and called for confronting transphobia. Read the statement here:

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No feminism without trans people: We stand together for an inclusive feminism 🩷

Feminism is about freedom, justice, and solidarity.
It is about building a society where everyone can live and love without fear, shame, or violence.

In recent years, we have seen some use feminist language and platforms to spread hostility toward trans people, especially trans women.

This harms all of us and undermines everything feminism stands for.

There is no feminism without trans people.
Trans girls are girls, and trans women are women.
Feminism is about everyone’s right to be themselves.
Our struggles are connected — for the right to live free, safe, and dignified lives.

Trans people are not a debate. Trans people are our fellow human beings.

We stand side by side with all those harmed by discrimination.
The fight for gender equality and the fight for gender diversity are one and the same: Justice, safety, and freedom for all.

A reactionary backlash

Across the world, we are witnessing reactionary, authoritarian, and fascist forces attack freedom, democracy, and human rights — using hatred of trans people as a weapon to divide and spread fear.

The anti-gender movement has become a unifying project for these forces. Through disinformation and moral panic, it seeks to undermine equality, gender diversity, and human rights. This rhetoric has reached Norway, too. Filter Nyheter pointed out in 2024 that the dehumanization of trans people and the spread of deranged conspiracy theories about queer people take root because society’s reflexes aren’t strong enough to resist them. The domestic attacks on Pride events, inclusive language, or the right to change one’s legal gender are just three symptoms of a much larger threat to a free and democratic society – one that has room for everyone.

Standing against this is a vast international community of feminists and human rights defenders.

In 2024, UN Women reminded the world that:

Working for LGBTIQ+ people’s human rights is indivisible from working for women’s rights and gender equality. The groups promoting the human rights of women and LGBTIQ+ people share the same goals of achieving safe and fair societies (…) The feminist goals of intersectional justice and gender equality can only be achieved if all women and all LGBTIQ+ people are included as part of a broad, intersectional feminist movement rooted in the universality and indivisibility of human rights.

In 2020, 2021, and 2023, broad coalitions of Norwegian feminists called for an end to the misuse of feminism as a tool to oppress minorities. Mia Landsem, Lubna Jaffery, and 2,474 other feminists declared in 2020: Women’s and trans people’s rights are not in opposition to each other. We fight together against the oppressive structures in our society.

In 2025, more than two hundred international women’s and human rights organizations took a stand against the misuse of rhetoric about women’s rights to attack transgender people. That same year, over 175 organizations fighting for women’s rights and gender justice in the United States condemned Trump’s persecution of trans people. They wrote:

It is appalling you wage these attacks in the name of “defending women,” and particularly because of your repeated attacks on women’s rights (…) As advocacy groups with long histories of advocating for and supporting the rights of women and girls, we unequivocally affirm that transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people, including women and girls, deserve the same basic rights and respect as everyone else.

Feminism fights for freedom and justice for all

Feminism is a universal human rights movement built on solidarity, intersectionality, and compassion. Eva Kolstad called it “a struggle for greater human freedom.”

radiOrakel, the world’s first women’s radio station, reminded us that feminism must be inclusive in order to remain progressive and continue shaping the kind of society we want to build.

Transphobia and misogyny share the same roots — both seek to restrict people’s freedom and self-determination.

If we are to fight one form of injustice, we must fight them all.

As feminists, we fail if we don’t stand up for trans people now.

We call on feminist organizations, political parties, trade unions, and human rights advocates to:

• Speak out clearly against all forms of transphobia — including within feminist spaces.
• Create safe and inclusive communities where everyone is met with respect.
• Build broad alliances for a society grounded in human rights, solidarity, and democratic values.

We stand together for an inclusive feminism — because none of us are free until all of us are free.

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