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Turning Point’s upcoming “Young Women’s Leadership Summit” is already causing controversy. The event, billed as a celebration of conservative values, features a bizarre mix of speakers, including self-styled “reformed” OnlyFans star Nala Ray and Rep. Nancy Mace, who recently attempted to rebrand her image as a feminist champion of privacy rights.
Let’s be clear: Turning Point has spent years demonizing sex workers and attacking the LGBTQ+ community, especially transgender individuals. Yet here they are, rolling out the red carpet for a former adult content creator whose videos still rely on the same sexualized tropes she claims to have renounced.
Ray’s transformation from explicit content creator to “trad wife” influencer is… questionable at best. Her “baking” videos, supposedly to promote Christian homemaking, feature overtly sexual performances, sucking spatulas, eyeing the camera like a porn star, and brandishing rolling pins suggestively. Meanwhile, she’s launched marriage courses despite having been married for only a few months, charging $15 a month for “biblical” advice. It’s the same hustle, just with a different label.
The contradictions don’t end there. Nancy Mace, another featured speaker, made headlines by displaying explicit images of herself during a House hearing, ostensibly to highlight the seriousness of revenge porn. Despite her claims of trauma from these images, she persists in promoting them, a contradiction that seems more motivated by publicity than principle.
Mace’s alleged feminist values ring hollow in light of her recent political pivot: She’s distanced herself from pro-transgender positions she once claimed to support. This flip-flopping is hardly a surprise at an event that preaches “biblical values” ones that routinely exclude queer and trans voices.
Andrew Wilson, a conservative commentator, was blunt in his critique: Turning Point’s summit, despite its name, has no real interest in “leadership” or in empowering young women. It’s about optics, using women as props to sell a version of conservatism that’s as patriarchal as it is performative. After all, as Wilson noted, Turning Point doesn’t even bother with a men’s leadership summit, a clear sign that this event is more about controlling the narrative than fostering real political debate.
For those of us in the adult content and LGBTQ+ communities, the message is all too familiar. It’s yet another example of a movement that wants to profit off of sexual imagery and sex workers’ notoriety while simultaneously shaming and marginalizing them, especially those who are trans or gender nonconforming. This event’s glaring contradictions show how little genuine concern Turning Point has for real empowerment or personal agency.
As the summit kicks off, it’s a reminder that while they talk about “biblical values” and “family values,” their real agenda is exclusion, dressing up bigotry and censorship as leadership. For adult performers and trans individuals, this is yet another moment to watch closely and call out the hypocrisy for what it is: a performance meant to uphold a worldview that erases and marginalizes us all.
