Dictionary Tests New Word: Friday, November 19,1971 “Transsex” “Jesus freak, imploit, sexism, transsex, stun gun…” “Transsex” “Transsex was invented by Christine Jorgensen.” “Desexegration” Desexegration is something you’ll see more of, now that the Red Chinese are represented in…
Gender Nation is a bi-weekly column by Gwendolyn Ann Smith, the founder of the Transgender Day of Remembrance, reviewing news affecting the trans, intersex, and genderqueer community. Obama-era trans prison policies rolled back A federal lawsuit in Texas…
A source Sheila Jeffreys used to construct her sex essentialist anti-trans book, Gender Hurts is currently stalking trans kids. “I am grateful, too, to the new wave of radical feminism both online and offline. Radical feminist bloggers such…
What follows are the statements of a Radical Feminist, Alexandria Brown of Techno Feminist Utopia who rejects TERF dogma: There is a mortifying, first-wave essentialist transphobia constructing straw arguments about trans politics and glibly erasing the structural marginalization…
Sept 1, 1991 Dear Linda and Tere: Thanks for sending me the issues of Gender Euphoria. I feel something of a proprietary interest in it because of its title. It was named such after I made a point…
A TERF blog that tries to make the case for sex essentialism claims that sexism is predicated upon sperm and eggs: according to this #TERFLogic, this man is oppressed as a female. No, that’s what anti-LGBT hate groups…
#TERFLogic: Trans people might be part of an Orwellian conspiracy against cis women: I am a lover of conspiracy theories. There are some I believe in and some I don’t but I think all of them are fascinating.…
Masthead: Gay Community News, January 31st, 1976 issue (Vol. 3, No. 31) Virginia Prince is oftentimes given credit for coining the term “transgenderist” and “transgenderism” in 1978. In 1977, Prince writes of three types of different types of…
What if male supremacy is no longer about reproductive biology? What if male supremacy’s engine has changed? That question comes to mind whenever I read in trans-critical radical feminists’ writings their bedrock argument that women are oppressed on…
JK Rowling has long hinted that she sympathized with sex essentialist so-called “radical feminist” idea that nobody’s phenotype is transitioned when trans people medically transition, and thus, trans women are males and trans men are females. However, Rowling…