The Politics of Transphobia
Bathroom Bills & The Dialectic of Oppression: From the KKK to anti-feminism: examining the Southern roots of the anti-trans “bathroom bill” movement. By Cristan Williams @cristanwilliams While […]
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Available scholarly citations plus verified non-scholarly sourcesA Cotton Ceiling Conspiracy Rebranding: Super Straight
TERFs began working with the political right to popularize the Cotton Ceiling Conspiracy dialectic, putting it to use in the right’s “bathroom bill” culture war. The right’s bathroom dialectic meshed well with the TERF’s Cotton Ceiling Conspiracy dialectic, further cementing the TERF movement to the far-right and alt-right movement.
Two Cis Women Sexually Assault Trans Woman in Public Bathroom
North Carolina sparked controversy after passing the “Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act,” better known as HB2. The bill stripped local LGBTQI equality protections and compelled transgender and intersex people to only use restrooms corresponding with the sex assigned to them on their medical record of birth. HB2, and others…
The Gill Foundation & NCTE choose money over trans lives
The Politics of Transphobia
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