Debunking TERF Essentialism: Part III of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series
Part III of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series: Debunking TERF Essentialism In Part II, what gender is and is not was discussed and the […]
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How “Feminism and gender politics” appears across the Collective corpus
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- Transadvocate.com178
- The TERFs97
- Cristan’s Research3
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Available scholarly citations plus verified non-scholarly sourcesAn intersex perspective on the trans, intersex and TERF communities
What I think it is important for trans advocates to point out to intersex people is that trans-exclusionary radical feminists believe that sex is a natural binary, innate and immutable: men have penises, women have vaginas and uteri. The TERFs note that gender is a relationship of power, and frame…
#TERFweek Redux
We looked at the way TERFs appeal to an imaginary sexed essence and noted how this view of the world stands in contract to Radical Feminist concepts.
TERFism as an Obsessive Sadistic Fetish: Part VI of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series
Debunking TERF Essentialism: 8/13/14
Critical of “Gender Critical:” Part V of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series
Many of the TERFs I’ve had the displeasure of meeting move through life belligerently sexing physical phenomena and behavior (especially rape) while simultaneously (and ironically) proclaiming themselves to be critical of gender. For TERFs, there is no difference between mentally contextualizing a body as a sex attribute and the body…
Making trans-hate sound reasonable
To get a bit more detailed and technical for a moment; Goldberg suggests that trans people claim an essential gender identity, while TERFs reject this, supposedly as anti-essentialists. In fact, essentialism is anathema to most feminists, and it is the TERFs who are using essentialism; to them, if you are…
Contextualizing the Body: Part II of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series
Debunking TERF Essentialism: 8/13/14
Intro to the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series
Debunking TERF Essentialism: 8/13/14
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TERFs Selling Women into Rape Culture: Part IV of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series
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Sheila Jeffreys’ source is now stalking trans kids
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