The following submission was not accepted by the FEWO study on Anti Feminist Extremism in Canada;
BCCEC Antifeminist Ideology Submission
Brief to the Standing Committee on the Status of Women Study on Anti-Feminist Ideology
Anti-Feminist Ideology in Practice: Exclusion, Conflation, and the Hierarchy of Women in Canada
We are so grateful to be guests on the unceded, ancestral, and traditional territories of the Musqueam Nation, Squamish Nation, and Tsleil-Waututh Nation.
We honour the three great Nations whose land this is.
Who We Are
Since 2002, the BC Coalition of Experiential Communities (BCCEC) are a democratic organization of sex workers representing diverse race, gender and genre in sex work across the BC Region.
Our work focuses on law and policy reform being based on evidence and fact and on placing the voices of sex workers at the center of all work that could impact our lives and safety.
1. Introduction
This submission is respectfully provided to the Standing Committee on the Status of Women as part of its study on anti-feminist ideology in Canada.
Prepared by the BC Coalition of Experiential Communities (BCCEC), this brief draws on over two decades of community-based research, policy engagement, and lived experience in the sex industry.
It argues that these approaches produce outcomes that are inconsistent with core feminist principles and contribute to increased vulnerability to violence for a significant population of women in Canada.
The current study on anti-feminist ideology in Canada has focused primarily on explicit forms of misogyny, including online radicalization and incel-related violence.¹
However, anti-feminist ideology does not operate only at the margins. It can also be embedded within institutional, policy, and advocacy frameworks that shape how women are recognized, protected, and included.
This submission identifies two such dynamics:
(1) the exclusion of sex workers from feminist and policy frameworks, and
(2) the conflation of consensual sex work with human trafficking.
Both operate in ways that undermine core feminist principles and contribute to increased vulnerability to violence.
