Dr. Suzanne Forbes-Vierling is a clinical psychologist with 25 years of leadership experience in higher education, management, and mental health, and has provided organizational consultation to international community-based organizations across Eastern Europe, Malawi, India, and South America. She is a prominent African American voice in the sex-based rights movement, arguing that gender ideology has racist origins and disproportionate harms for Black women and other marginalized groups.
Womanhood Is Erased, Even as Big Pharma Profits from Women's Bodies — Human Events, 2024
Published in Human Events in 2024, this essay argues that in an era of rapid industrial and technological transformation, the very concept of womanhood — as an identity, a legal status, a source of rights, and a full human experience — is being systematically dismantled. Women have been reduced to clinical terms associated with reproduction while losing rights to sex-segregated spaces in sport, prisons, and washrooms.
Biography
Dr. Suzanne Forbes-Vierling holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology and brings 25 years of leadership experience in higher education, management, and mental health. She has provided organizational consultation to international community-based organizations across Eastern Europe, Malawi, India, and South America. She is known for her dynamic leadership and dedication to ensuring that women are fully included and not erased in our evolving economy, and has delivered presentations at the ICONS & ICFS International Women's Sport Summit on leadership, women, and western culture. Apple Podcasts | Human Events
Her work examines the intersecting capitalist systems — including the child welfare system, the industrial prison complex, the surrogacy industry, and the business of human trafficking — that shape the lives of women and girls. She traces the racist origins of terms like "birthing body," drawing parallels between the control of language used to rename and dehumanize enslaved Black women and the tactics used today to redefine womanhood under gender ideology. She also teaches West African dance. Spotify for Podcasters
