Alex Jones, recently banned from various platforms such as Facebook and YouTube for, in part, his dehumanization of trans people, accidentally revealed that he watches trans porn on his phone. In a recent commercial for his various health…
West Coast Lesbian Conference NOTE: In 2008 the non-transgender Feminist/Radical Feminist community popularized the term Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) as a way to identify a group, primarily focused on targeting transgender people in the name of Radical…
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What it is #TERFweek is a week of education, raising awareness and openly talking about the abuse our communities have endured at the hands of the Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist movement. From Monday, August 11 to the 17,…
The nonprofit, Secular Women has created a petition calling on the Southern Poverty Law Center to regard TERF attorney, Cathy Brennan’s group, Gender Identity Watch, as a hate group. The petition starts off, “As a feminist organization, Secular…
What follows are the words of a cisgender feminist who can no longer not name the problem: I suppose in the past I’ve avoided, for the most part, discussing specific perpetrators of transphobia and transmisogyny. My reasoning for…
Rewrite is a TransAdvocate feature wherein unethical journalism is corrected and rewritten in ways that are respectful of the trans, intersex, and genderqueer experience. Today’s Rewrite comes from The Time of India. LAHORE: A transgender woman in Pakistan…
The graphic below seems to detail a pattern of censorship by what appears to be a TERF opinion leader, Cathy Brennan, a well-known public face of the modern TERF movement. It seems that a CounterPunch article was censored…
While much has been said about the intentional exclusion of trans women at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, almost nothing is written about rapes that occur at MichFest. The festival is rhetorically constructed to be a “safe place”…
TERF activist censors Radical Feminist voices to sneak hate into the classroom. Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) activist, Sheila Jeffreys has written a new academic book that claims to inform readers of the various ways TERF culture, “has all…