Are Misogynist, Homophobe, & TERF slurs?
Into the nexus of the ‘gay alt-right feminist’ movement I received notice that an opinion leader in the sex essentialist activist community had linked to one […]
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How “Feminism and gender politics” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 4 year(s) after the theme’s highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.
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- Transadvocate.com178
- The TERFs97
- Cristan’s Research3
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- Transgender identity and history178
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Available scholarly citations plus verified non-scholarly sourcesJK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, announces that she is a TERF
The backstory for this seemingly innocuous tweet is that a TERF activist, Maya Forstater sued to be given the special right of consequence-free speech. Such suits are a relatively new frontier of TERF activism. Meghan Murphy, a Canadian TERF, sued Twitter for the special right to harass trans women on…
TERF suing Twitter for special right to harass trans women
Meghan Murphy, a Canadian TERF, is suing Twitter for the special right to harass trans women on Twitter. Murphy is represented by Republican operative and past editor of the Heritage Foundation’s Policy Review magazine, Harmeet K Dhillon. Joining Murphy’s suit is Noah Peters, attorney for a White supremacist who previously…
TERF Academic Rewrites History
Cherry-picking TERF rhetoric published after the publication of Raymond’s 1979 Transsexual Empire, Jeffreys cites TERF quotes that make use of Raymond-era rhetorical memes such as, “male-to-constructed female” (because, we are to believe, cis women do not construct their female phenotype, right?) to again make ad naturam claims designed to rhetorically…
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