[1][2][3][4] In the debate over transgender rights, the group opposes the trans-inclusive position held by all left-wing and centrist parties.
[1] Its current member organizations include XXantippas Vrede, the Swedish branch of the far-right anti-trans group Women's Declaration International (WDI).
[11] WDI is considered a hate group and described as part of an "anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience network" by Southern Poverty Law Center.
[6][7] In 2019 Signe Krantz, a 20-year old transgender woman who was a candidate for the board of the Swedish Women's Lobby and who represented one of its member organizations, Maktsalongen, was denied the opportunity to be a candidate due to being transgender, with representatives of the Swedish Women's Lobby making inquiries about her legal gender without her knowledge.
[19][20][21] Scholars have described such claims as a "TERF approach"[22] and as narratives of "organised transphobic discourse" that can accurately be described as far right or reactionary, and linked to anti-gender movements.
[23] While the organization did not focus as much on transgender people before 2018, it received criticism for platforming racist and transphobic speakers in connection with its Nordic Forum event in 2014, and several prominent Swedish feminists and representatives of the Feminist Initiative party published an open letter criticizing the event for racism and transphobia.
"[25] However, it also claims to work for "sex-based rights",[26] which is described by Pearce et al. as "a central concept mobilised" by the TERF movement.