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The Letter

When I learned Routledge Press was planning to publish a book about “transgenderism” by Australian academician Sheila Jeffreys, I was astonished. Why was I astonished? Because Jeffreys considers transsexual surgery a human rights violation,…

Education and youthFeminism and gender politics
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The TERF Empire Declares War Against Trans People

Trans pioneer Dallas Denny published an article on TA about expressing her misgivings about the upcoming publication of a book promoting Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) hate. She just received a chilling response from…

Community and organizingEducation and youth
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Unpacking Transphobia in Feminism

NOTE: Radical Women wanted to share this article on the TransAdvocate so that people understand that not all radical feminist women are TERFs. Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminism (TERF) is a relatively small – but…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
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Hypocrisy, Hate and Harm #no2h8splc

The above is a picture of militant lesbians and gays protesting against a movie that promoted false gay stereotypes. March 18, 1970 Ladies’ Home Journal Sit-In Above is what happened when a bunch of…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
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Libertarian Feminism and trans people

The TransAdvocate recently featured a piece by Radical Women. The group touched on many radical positions on gender and the transgender experience. In this piece, the TransAdvocate interviews Sharon Presley, Executive Director of the…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
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Sheila Jeffreys and the myth of where trans care comes from

Sheila Jeffreys has for years claimed that trans surgery is the product of some malevolent conspiracy: [Transsexual surgery] could be likened to political psychiatry in the Soviet Union. I suggest that transsexualism should best…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
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Myriad Double Standards

So last week, my new book, Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive, was reviewed in Publisher’s Weekly – you can read the review here. It is generally positive and I am pretty…

Culture, identity, and representationFeminism and gender politics