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From The Washington Times. The Women’s March of 2016 was the highest-profile protest of Donald Trump’s first inauguration, but just eight years later, the word “women” has been scratched from the event.

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The left-leaning feminist group that staged the 2016 march will be out in full force again this weekend on the National Mall — this time under a different name: the People’s March.

Why the branding change? A spokesperson for Tamika Middleton said the Women’s March managing director “sees the need for everyone to be included in the fight against what is coming,” referring to Monday’s inauguration of President-elect Trump. …

Replacing “women” with “people” may be more inclusive, but it’s also somewhat tone-deaf, given the backlash against what critics on the right describe as the campaign to “erase women” by equating them with biological males who identify as female. …

Carrie Lukas, president of the Independent Women’s Forum, called it a “sign of just how low the progressive movement has sunk that, in the eight years since Trump was first inaugurated and the Women’s March launched, that they have dropped the word ’women.’”

“Presumably this is because the only people who are willing to once again come out to push debunked, alarmist rhetoric about the supposed horrors of Trump 2.0 are also so disconnected from reality that they oppose terms like ’women,’” Ms. Lukas said. …

Asked if the Women’s March knows what a woman is, the spokesperson insisted that the Saturday event is “not a Women’s March — Women’s March as an organization is just one of the members who is involved in the People’s March.” …

The Women’s March is “anchoring the logistics of the mobilization,” according to the People’s March website, which is copyrighted by the Women’s March.

During a Nov. 8 planning call, Ms. Middleton described the Jan. 18 protest as “our big one.”

“January 18, inauguration weekend, we will be in D.C., and we will be mobilizing, and we will be doing our big one,” said Ms. Middleton, as shown in a YouTube video. “We are trying to do the same thing that we did in 2017, which is [to] overshadow his inauguration, right? We’re trying to pull out numbers, we’re trying to steal the audience.” …

The two coalitions teaming up with the Women’s March for the Jan. 18 protest are Time to Act, a left-wing group led by the Movement for Black Lives, and Abortion Access Now, the newly formed heavy-hitter on the reproductive-rights front.

Launched in June with an investment of $100 million, Abortion Access Now’s members include Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Women’s Law Center, and Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity.

There’s nothing on Abortion Access Now’s website about the People’s March, but the Movement for Black Lives has a post on Instagram describing it as a protest for “an end to wars and genocide” that includes a photo of a pro-Palestinian demonstration. …

Dozens of U.S. cities will be holding simultaneous People’s March protests, including New York City, Atlanta, Philadelphia and West Palm Beach, although the Los Angeles march has been canceled due to concerns about wildfire danger.

In the District, the march will have three “kickoff” locations based on protester interests: one for “democracy, immigration, anti-militarism and climate”; one for District issues, and one for “bodily autonomy, gender justice and LGBTQIA issues.”

The marchers will then head to the Lincoln Memorial for a rally and “People’s Fair.”

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(Excerpt from The Washington Times. Photo Credit: roya ann miller on Unsplash)